Maximilian Hornung - About

BBT is just wonderful! The support they give you is absolutely unique, essential and outstanding, especially today when it is so much more important to get the support which really fits you and makes your ideas come true. I’m very honoured to be part of this great family and deeply thankful to work with them on what I love: making music!

German cellist Maximilian Hornung has built a career with top orchestras and conductors across the world, and with regular chamber partners including fellow BBT alumnae Vilde Frang and Veronika Eberle, and BBT honorary Artistic Committee member, Christian Tetzlaff. He is at home in the biggest concerto repertoire – including classical and contemporary – and the most intimate of recital works. He is also artistic director of Traunsteiner Sommerkonzerte in Upper Bavaria.

With his BBT Fellowship Maximilian was able to purchase a new bow and commission a new portfolio of photographs. But his major project was the recording for Sony of Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (of which he was then principal cellist) under Bernard Haitink. The recording was featured in a BBT profile film, The Simplicity of Making Great Music, which features one of Maximilian’s mentors and regular chamber partners, Anne-Sophie Mutter.

Maximilian was supported with a BBT Fellowship between 2012 and 2013.

For a current biography please visit intermusica.com

Photographs by Marco Borggreve and Julia Wesely