Maximilian Kromer
Born in Vienna, Maximilian Kromer began playing the piano at the age of 4. His training was shaped at a younger age by Susanna Spaemann, who mentored him from 2004 to 2010. He then began his preparatory studies in the class of Noel Flores at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and continued his training with Martin Hughes and Anna Malikova from 2013. He also received pianistic impulses from Leonid Brumberg, Alexei Kornienko and Anne Queffelec, among others. Since 2022 he has been in active musical exchange with Helmut Deutsch.
As a soloist, chamber musician and Lied accompanist, Maximilian Kromer has been a guest at numerous international festivals and concert halls, such as the Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Rheingau Music Festival, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Tonhalle Maag in Zurich and the Mozart Week in Salzburg, where he performed on Mozart’s own historical instrument, a fortepiano by Anton Walter. International engagements have also taken him to the Festival de Paques in Aix-en-Provence, the Cartagena Festival in Colombia, Amici della Musica in Florence and the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, as well as to the Yehudi Menuhin Festival and the Swiss Alps Classics in Switzerland.
He performs with renowned artists such as Rolando Villazón, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Daniel Müller-Schott, Timothy Ridout and Noa Wildschut, as well as with up-and-coming young talents such as Patricia Nolz, Jeremias Fliedl, Dominik Wagner, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian and Daniel Gutmann. In 2023, together with Daniel Gutmann, he published a recording of settings of Heine poems by Robert Schumann on the Austrian label Gramola. His debut solo album with recordings of virtuoso Viennese piano works ‒ including a premiere recording of the »Neue Wiener Tänze« by Christoph Ehrenfellner ‒ was also released there.
Maximilian Kromer has won prizes at numerous national and international competitions, including the international EMCY competition »A Step Towards Mastery« in St. Petersburg and the International Brahms Competition in Pörtschach. He is also a winner of the Jenö Takacs International Piano Competition, the Piano Podium Munich and the »Silver Nutcracker« at the International Television Competition in Moscow. In 2018 he received the prestigious »Casinos Austria Rising Star Award«, and in 2021 he was a prize-winner at the International Beethoven Competition in Vienna. Together with his chamber music partner, violinist and conductor Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, he was awarded the Nordmetall Foundation Ensemble Prize at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival.