Max Volbers
As a recorder player, harpsichordist and increasingly as an ensemble leader, Max Volbers is one of the most versatile young musicians in the field of early music. In the spirit of the sound worlds of the 17th and 18th centuries, in which musicians mastered several instruments without question, he illuminates the repertoire of early music from very different perspectives as a multi-instrumentalist. He also devotes himself time and again to new music and regularly works with composers on commissioned compositions. He studied at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Dorothee Oberlinger, Walter van Hauwe, Reinhard Goebel and Florian Birsak. He has been under contract with Berlin Classics since 2024, and his new album “Foreign Masters” with harpsichordist Alexander von Heißen was released in September that year.
As a prizewinner of the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, among others, he is a welcome guest at the Verbier Festival, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Sanssouci Music Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele and the Innsbrucker Festwochen. Deeply convinced that early music should not be the exclusive preserve of the “original sound movement”, he plays equally with ensembles such as Concerto Köln, Il Pomo d’Oro, La Cetra or the Contentus Musicus Wien as well as with “modern” orchestras such as the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the NDR Radiophilharmonie or the Musikkollegium Winterthur. He has been a guest in major halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Elbphilharmonie, the KKL Lucerne, the Casa da Musica Porto, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Konserthuset Stockholm, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Philharmonie de Paris or the MÜPA Budapest.
He received great support from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, the Ernsting foundation and the GWK Münster (music award 2013 and GWK-Cordes scholarship). After numerous radio productions, his debut CD “Whispers of Tradition” was released by GENUIN in October 2022 and was enthusiastically received by the specialist press. For this CD he received the OPUS KLASSIK 2023 award in the category “Young Artist of the Year” as well as the audience award by WELT am Sonntag. In addition to his concert activities, Max teaches at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and at various master classes.
Find further information on www.maxvolbers.de.
Season 2024/25
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