Samantha Maya MacAdam is a multi-instrumentalist, multi-name, creative based in Glasgow.

Sam’s work includes composition and songwriting, performance, and visual art.

Her projects are: The Willow Trio, Catalyst Symphony, and Maya's Radio Orchestra.

Maya’s Radio Orchestra

"As if Debussy and Sufjan Stevens had a baby and left her in the forest to be raised by Björk"

Samantha Maya is a Glasgow based alt-folk singer-songwriter, harpist, and violinist who creates textures with dense harmonies, classical instrumentation and pithy lyrics. She performs live using a loop pedal to create magical sound worlds.

Maya is an award winning harpist, violinist, and singer-songwriter with a first class honours degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her work draws on both classical music along with traditional Scottish culture and contemporary innovation.

She was the recipient of the prestigious Paolo Nutini Scholarship 2022 for songwriting through the University of the West of Scotland where she is studying a masters in Songwriting. Her tracks explore disappointment and lost love, the feelings of belonging (or the lack there of), and draw on her childhood experiences of being mixed race within a chocolate-box cotswold village.

Maya's latest single was featured in SNACK mag, and her projects have been featured on BBC Radio 3, BBC Scotland (Travelling Folk and Classics Unwrapped), BBC Radio Ulster (album of the week). She's recently performed as part of sofar sounds, Dirty Laundry, supported Clare Sands on her tour date at the Hug and Pint, headlined at Broadcast, and has upcoming gigs with AMPLIFI at the Queen's Hall, Lay Low, and Celtic Connections.

Maya is currently working on creative arts based practice exploring synthesis between process and product, the physicality of how to hold a song, and time consuming paper 2D stop motion and how to slow down time