Maria Erdman was born in 1974 in Warsaw, Poland. She has been graduated from two Departaments of the Frederick Chopin Academy in Warsaw – Theory of Music (1998) and the Organ (1999). She continued her studies with Menno van Delft (clavichord) and Pieter van Dijk (organ) at Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Her teachers were also Christopher Stembridge, Władysław Kłosiewicz, Nicholas Parle, Guy Bovet and Peter Bares. She has been active as an organ, clavichord and continuo player. She performed at music festivals in Poland and abroad (Germany, Italy, Holland).
The artistic and scientific interests of Maria Erdman are running mainly around Early (Renesaince, Baroque) Music and the Romantic era. Maria Erdman is concerned about promotion of Polish Music of the both periods. Her thesis concerned the repertoire of the Polish Keyboard Music in the XVIth century. She finished project of bringing to edition the Mieczysław Surzyński’s works for the organ, left by her untimely dead father. She took part in preparation works for the edition of “Fiori Musicali� by Girolamo Frescobaldi, made by Christopher Stembridge.
Maria Erdman participated as lecturer and performer at the VIth Clavichord Symposium in Magnano in September 2003, presenting Polish keyboard music of the XVI and XVIIth centuries, at The Clavichord Weekend in Frankfurt/Oder, held by The German Clavichord Society in March 2004, the 5th International Festival of Spanish Keyboard Music “Diego Fernandez� in Almeria in 2004 and at a number of conferences in Poland.
For many years she was active as a singer in choirs and ensembles, performing a wide scope of repertoire.
Since February 2003 she has been working as an organist for the Anglican Chaplaincy in Warsaw.
She has recently entered doctoral studies at the Musicology Departament of the St. Kard. Wyszyński University in Warsaw.