She now lives in the UK, having moved to London in 2012 under the Arts Council England’s Exceptional Talent scheme. In 2009 she was offered a post to teach the qanun and Arabic music at the Department of Music and Musicology, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. Youssef moved to Dubai in 2007 to focus on her solo career. She was also given master classes by the Turkish qanun player Göksel Baktagir. She completed her degree in music in 2007 after studying with the Syrian composer and qanun player Salim Sarwa and Azerbaijani musician Elmira Akhundova. Youssef was a founder member of the Syrian Female Oriental Band (SFOG) in 2003. in English literature at the University of Damascus. She attended the High Institute of Music and Dramatic Arts in Damascus, studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree in music (where she specialized in studying the qanun) at the same time she worked towards obtaining a B.A. Īt the age of 12, Youssef won the Best Musician Award in Syria's National Music Competition for Youth.
Encouraged by her mother, the nine-year-old Maya chose the violin as her main instrument, before switching to the qanun. At the age of seven she started to study music at the Sulhi al-Wadi Institute of Music in Damascus. Youssef, and her mother Rose Makhlouf is a translator. Her father is the writer and journalist Hassan M. Maya Youssef was born in 1984 in Damascus, Syria, into a family of artists and writers.
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