A woman with brown hair wearing a black coat and gray scarf standing near a boat docked on a river. In the background, there are historic buildings and a large Ferris wheel.

Maria Konoshenko is a Contemporary Classical performer (mezzo-soprano singer, pianist, composer) and a linguist based in Helsinki, Finland.

As an émigré artist of Russian origin, Maria is now working on her project ‘Songs of Exile’ in collaboration with the British label Rezzonator Music. Her next single ‘Voeval | He fought in the war’ based on a poem by Zhenya Berkovich will be released on April 29th.

This website mostly features Maria’s work as a musician, but as a linguist she works on tone variation and multilingualism in West Africa.

Photo credit: Alexander Elikhin (Helsinki, 2025). Shot on a vintage Kiev-88 camera with experimental film expired in 2002