Maria Lettberg, born October 28, 1970 in Riga, is a Swedish pianist residing in Berlin. Recognized at age seven, she gave her graduate recital at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and continued her studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Indiana University in Bloomington, and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Her teachers included Tatyana Zagorovskaja, Andrei Gavrilov, Paul Badura-Skoda, Menahem Pressler, Emanuel Krasovsky, Roland Pöntinen, and Matti Raekallio. Lettberg's repertoire includes composers such as Brahms, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin, Scriabin, Debussy, Prokofiev, Schnittke, and Bach, with a focus on Scandinavian and Russian works. She collaborated extensively with Deutschlandradio and was nominated for the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in the category Best Classical Instrumental Solo for her performance of Zara Levina's two piano concertos with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
