Dr. Maria Serkin is the Associate Professor of Horn at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Principal Horn of the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle (Durham).  She enjoys a multifaceted career as a performer and educator, and has held additional principal horn positions with the Florida Grand Opera, Palm Beach Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, Atlantic Classical Orchestra, and the Charlottesville Symphony, and was a fellow with the New World Symphony. She previously taught at University of Virginia and the New World School of the Arts (Miami), and has led master classes extending from the Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School to the Big Island of Hawaii.

Dr. Serkin has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Spoleto Festival USA, National Repertory Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, and was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. Her New York and Miami recording credits include work with The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park, Gloria Estefan, and ESPN. Recent performance highlights include extensive work the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, The Verona Quartet, Palm Beach Opera, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival, and the North Carolina Brass Band. In 2018, she was honored to premiere Kenneth Frazelle’s Hearken (Blue Ridge Airs III) at the 50th International Horn Symposium. In 2023, she premiered Shelter by Lawrence Dillon at the 55th International Horn Symposium in Montreal.