Maximilian Haberstock Biography
Conductor Maximilian Haberstock, at 21, is one of the most promising young artists of his generation, with a rapidly rising career spanning both symphonic and operatic repertoire.
Haberstock is the founder and Chief Conductor of the Young Philharmonic Orchestra Munich, an international ensemble of 97 outstanding young musicians from over 32 nations. The orchestra made its debut at the Stars & Rising Stars Festival in May 2023 with the celebrated cellist Alban Gerhardt to resounding success, followed by a second concert in May 2024 featuring an all-Brahms program with world-renowned cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, which was likewise received with great enthusiasm by both audiences and the press.
In May 2025, Haberstock led his orchestra on a widely acclaimed tour with pianist Eva Gevorgyan, presenting an all-Beethoven program at the Great Hall of the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Herkulessaal in Munich to sold-out audiences and standing ovations.
This success was followed in March 2026 by another celebrated four-city tour to Prague (Smetana Hall), Wiesbaden (Kurhaus), Frankfurt (Alte Oper), and Munich (Herkulessaal), together with pianist Maxim Lando in a program of Wagner, Liszt, and Beethoven.
In November 2022, Haberstock conducted the Craiova “Oltenia” Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Following the resounding success of this concert, and at the special request of the orchestra, he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons. He has since worked with orchestras in Germany, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey, including the Ahmed Adnan Saygun Orchestra in Izmir and the Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra at the Grand Opening of Kaleidoscope Culture in Novi Sad.
Equally committed to opera, Haberstock made his conducting debut with Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles at Opera Română Craiova in April 2023, which led to an invitation from Opera Plovdiv, where he conducted Bizet’s Carmen in November 2023 and Strauss’ Die Fledermaus in February 2024. He recently made his debut with the Antalya State Opera in a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
An accomplished pianist and composer, Haberstock is the winner of multiple first prizes in piano. He made his international debut at Carnegie Hall in New York and performed together with Lang Lang in a concert for the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Schloss Bellevue in Berlin. He participated in the Verbier Festival as a pianist (2018), Junior Conducting Fellow (2019), and Conducting Assistant to James Gaffigan (2021), and in 2023 became the youngest participant in the history of the prestigious Gstaad Conducting Academy, where he worked closely with Maestro Jaap van Zweden.
Haberstock is currently enrolled at the University of Music & Performing Arts Munich, where his teachers include Prof. Thomas Böckheler (piano) and Prof. Kay Westermann (composition). He also studies conducting with Prof. Georg Christoph Sandmann (Dresden).
