Maria Panova was born ib 2004 in Sevastopol. She started her violin lessons at Children’s Music School No. 2 in Sevastopol. In 2023 she graduated from the Gnessins Moscow Special Music School (College) and continued her studies at the P.I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (Tatyana Berkul’s classes). She took part in master-classes by Marina Kesselman, Artyom Dyrula, Savely Shalman and other well-known musicians.
She has got awards at international and All-Russia contests including the Russian Delphic Games, the Gnessins International Music Competition-Festival, the G.S. Turchaninova All-Russia Violin Competition, the G.V.Sviridov International Competition.
In 2015-2018 she had been a scholarship holder of the Yuri Rozum Foundation.
Since 2026 — an artist of the first violin section in the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia.