 Maximilian Hornung, cello
Born in 1986 in Augsburg (Germany), he had his first cello lessons at the age of eight. In 1995 he became a student of the legendary cello teacher Prof. Eldar Issakadze. He then studied at the Zurich Conservatory with Thomas Grossenbacher and since autumn 2006 he is a student of David Geringas at the Hanns Eisler Conservatory in Berlin. He took part in masterclasses by Steven Isserlis, Heinrich Schiff, Frans Helmerson, Bernard Greenhouse, Krzystof Penderecki and Mstislav Rostropowitsch.
He won numerous prizes in national and international competitions and received various scholarships. In 2005 he won the German Music Competition in Berlin, which is one of the most important music prizes in Germany. He also is a passionate chamber musician and he is a member of the Tecchler Trio since it was formed in 2003. With the Tecchler Trio he also was prizewinner at the German Music Competition, the Melbourne Chamber Music Competition and won first prize at the ARD Competition in Munich.
Maximilian Hornung performed at festivals such as the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, the Festival of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Orpheum Musikfesttage Zurich, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Bachfest Leipzig, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Ravinia-Festival Chicago and the Delft Chamber Music Festival.
He appeared in many venues in Europe and the USA, including the Vienna and Berlin Konzerthaus and Philharmonic Hall, the Conservatory of Moscow, the Festival Hall in Bregenz, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the KKL in Lucerne, the Herkulessaal in Munich and the Wigmore Hall in London, as a soloist with the Zurich Tonhalle-Orchestra, the Berlin and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Tschaikowsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow, the Wuerttemberg Philharmonic, the Brandenburg State Philharmonic, the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra, the South-West German and Munich Chamber Orchestras and many others. He has been recorded and broadcast in numerous radio programmes.
He is going to perform as a soloist with Orchestras such as the Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra, the Hannover and Mecklenburg State Philharmonic Orchestras, the Baltic Philharmonic Gdansk and he will return to the Zurich Tonhalle-Orchestra, to the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra and to the South-West German Chamber Orchestra.
A debut CD including a recital programme with the label GENUIN will be published by April 2008. This spring he will also play in the world premiere recording of Yehudi Wyner's Cello Concerto together with the Odense Symphony Orchestra.
Since December 2007 he is Principal Solo Cellist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Mariss Jansons.
In January 2008 he was accepted as student of Ms. Anne-Sophie Mutter’s foundation for young extraordinary gifted string players "circle of friends" in Munich.
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