Badian began to compose at five years of age, and later attended the
Bucharest National University of Music in Bucharest, where she studied with
Tiberiu Olah,
Aurel Stroe,
Zeno Vancea and
Tudor Ciortea, graduating with a master's degree in Composition in 1968. She continued her studies in orchestral conducting in
Weimar, Germany during 1972. Since 1970, Badian has been a member of the
Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists. She was music director at the Radiophonic Theatre Department of the Romanian Broadcasting Corporation from 1968 to 1972 and a music professor at the George Enescu School of Music in Bucharest between 1973 and 1985. Emigrating with her family to Canada in 1987, she settled in Montreal. In 1990 she took Canadian citizenship, and moved to
Ottawa,
Ontario, in 1995. Badian is now a professor of theoretical studies, examiner, proof reader, and exam maker for the Canadian
Royal Conservatory of Music Examinations and also a member of the
Canadian League of Composers, and an Associate member with the
Canadian Music Centre. In 1992, after two years study under
André Prévost, she obtained a Doctorate in Music, Composition Diploma with the highest distinction at the
University of Montréal. She is married to Lucian Badian, a Master in Engineering; Business Manager with the
Federal Government of Canada. Maya Badian has composed works for orchestra; for instrumental and vocal ensembles; for choir; music for instrumental theatre and for multimedia. She has over 120 published compositions, as well as musicology and pedagogy works in the
Library and Archives Canada, the American
Library of Congress, the
International Library for Contemporary Music in Paris, and other libraries worldwide. ==Works==