Originally from China, Liya Ma performed on stages throughout the United States, Canada, Italy, and China. Liya performs with several professional orchestras and ensembles regularly, including playing with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago from 2021 to 2023 and winning the principal second position with the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra in 2023. She also performed with Alexndria and Fairfax Symphony Orchestras in the DMV area, Peoria Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Oistrakh Symphony of Chicago, and Northbrook Symphony Orchestra in the midwest. Liya was also a member of American Youth Symphony in Los Angeles from 2018 to 2019. 

Her chamber experience includes performing at the National Musuc Museum with the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra String Quartet, Silk Road Ensemble workshop with Yo-Yo Ma, Ensemble 20+ at DePaul University, University String Quartet at California State University, Long Beach. Liya’s major music festival experience includes attending Mendocino Music Festival as an Emerging Artist; Atlantic Music Festival as a Contemporary Ensemble Fellow; Youth Music Culture Guangdong in Guangdong, China, collaborating and performing with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble; the PRISMA festival in Canada.