A multi-disciplinary sound-artist specialized in contemporary music, free improvisation and new-music-theater, Zacarias Maia has performed all over Europe, Israel and South America. He is based in Basel, Switzerland.
At the École Jacques Lecoc in Paris, Zacarias Maia took part in the intensive summer theatre course. At the Hochschule für Musik Basel, he studied percussion with Christian Dierstein, free improvisation with Andrea Neumann and Alfred Zimmerlin, and composition with Johannes Kreidler.
At the moment he is a freelancer composer and performer, and work as artistic director of KlangLab in Basel.