Maximilian Haberstock Biografie

Maximilian Haberstock (2004) is an eighteen-year-old pianist, composer and conductor. He is currently obtaining his musical education at the University of Music & Performing Arts Munich, where his teachers include Prof. Thomas Böckheler (piano) and Prof. Kay Westermann (composition). He is studying conducting with Prof. Georg Christoph Sandmann (Dresden).

The first prize winner of the German national music competition “Jugend musiziert” is no stranger to the stage, whether the Philharmonic Hall in Munich or the Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2017 Maximilian performed with Lang Lang for the German President at Schloss Bellevue in Berlin.

For the last four years Maximilian regularly played in chamber music ensembles together with renowned musicians such as Daniel Müller-Schott, David Fray and Alban Gerhardt, at the Stars & Rising Stars Festival in Munich, where he also had a chance to present his latest compositions.

In 2018 he was chosen as Student-in-Residence in piano at the Verbier Festival, and has been invited back in 2019 as a Junior Conducting Fellow into the Mentorship Program of Maestro Valery Gergiev. Maximilian returned to Verbier in the summer of 2021 as Maestro James Gaffigan’s conducting assistant with the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra.

Since then Maximilian participated in conducting masterclasses with Prof. Johannes Schlaefli, Maestro Michel Tabachnik as well as Prof. Rüdiger Bohn with orchestras such as Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra and Leipzig Symphony Orchestra at Gewandhaus.

In October 2022, Maximilian Haberstock assisted Deun Lee in a new production of La Bohème in Milan and in November 2022 conducted Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Romania with the Oltenia Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academic Choir Craiova. Following the success of this concert and great chemistry with the orchestra, Maximilian is appointed as the Principal Guest Conductor for the 2023/24 season.

In December 2019, Maximilian took the stage for the first time as the conductor of his newly founded ensemble the “Arcis Chamber Orchestra”. Subsequently, he performed together with his orchestra in two concerts, with all the proceeds going to his charity project. For their third concert in May 2023 Maximilian and his orchestra will perform with the acclaimed cellist Alban Gerhardt in Munich.

In collaboration with their closest musical friends, Maximilian and his sister Ayla Sophie are the founders of the non-profit project “Young Musicians Live”. They are proud to be able to send seventy-five refugee children to school with the money they raised in their concerts for the benefit of Zeltschule e.V. (“Tent School”).

Maximilian was the youngest speaker at TEDxYouth@München 2019; he received a standing ovation for his talk: “Finding Stories in Classical Music”

Maximilian is a scholar of the “Young Musicians on World Stages” foundation, created and mentored by Güher & Süher Pekinel. He is also a recipient of the “Carl-Heinz Illies- Grant” as well as the “Gerd Bucerius-Grant“ of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Mit seinem eigenen, neu ins Leben gerufenen Ensemble, dem „Arcis-Kammerorchester“, stand Maximilian erstmals im Dezember 2019, ein weiteres Mal im November 2020 am Pult. Die Erlöse aus den beiden Konzerten kamen in vollem Umfang seinem Wohltätigkeitsprojekt zu Gute. Für ein drittes Konzert im Mai 2023 werden Maximilian und sein Orchester mit dem renomierten Cellisten Alban Gerhardt in München auftreten.

Im 2017 Jahr gründete Maximilian mit seiner Schwester Ayla Sophie und musizierenden Freunden das Non-Profit-Projekt „Young Musicians Live“. Die Gruppe ist stolz, mit dem Erlös aus ihren bisherigen Konzerten für den „Zeltschule e.V.“ 75 Flüchtlingskindern ein Jahr Schulbesuch ermöglicht zu haben.

Als jüngster Teilnehmer bei TEDxYouth@München 2019 wurde der Nachwuchsdirigent für seinen Vortrag „Finding Stories in Classical Music“ mit stehendem Applaus belohnt.

Maximilian ist Stipendiat der von Güher & Süher Pekinel ins Leben gerufenen und betreuten Stiftung „Junge Musiker auf Weltbühnen”. Darüber hinaus wurde er mit dem „Carl-Heinz Illies-Förderstipendium“ und dem „Gerd Bucerius-Stipendium der Deutschen Stiftung Musikleben“ ausgezeichnet.