Maximilian Khevenhüller
Photo: Gemma Escribano
Artistic subdirectorate
Assistant Director of Choir and Orchestra
Curriculum Vitae
Maximilian Khevenhüller-Metsch grew up in Austria and Spain. Having taken up the piano at the age of 8, he also developed an early interest in musical composition. His studies in Physics and Mathematics took him to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) and, later, his studies in musical composition to the City of Vienna University of Music and Arts and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.
His first piano teachers included Yuri Ananiev, Aleksei Kornienko and Paul Gulda. He has performed in
Spanish Television (TVE) in Cádiz, as well as in spaces such as the
Musikverein of Vienna, the Vienna Hofburg, the
Konzerthaus
from Klagenfurt, the
National Music Auditorium
of Madrid and the
Wigmore Hall
in London.
Another of Maxi's great interests is film music. He has participated in master classes on film composition techniques with prominent composers such as
Christopher Young
and
Hans Zimmer
. Some of his film scores were recorded by the
Varna State Opera Orchestra
under the direction of Derek Gleeson at the Studio
Bulgarian National Radio
. In 2018 he worked as an arranger for Aleksey Igudesman and in 2019 at the
hollywood film music archive
in Vienna with Martin Brandl.
He recently graduated from
Royal Academy of Music
from London on collaborative piano, having studied with Michael Dussek and Joseph Middleton.
