Conductor Maximilian Haberstock is one of the most rapidly rising young artists of his generation, with a career spanning symphonic, operatic, and chamber repertoire. As founder and Chief Conductor of the Young Philharmonic Orchestra Munich – a 70-member ensemble of outstanding young musicians from over 20 nations – Haberstock led their debut at the Stars & Rising Stars Festival in 2023 with cellist Alban Gerhardt, returning in 2024 with an all-Brahms program featuring Daniel Müller-Schott, which was met with great enthusiasm by both the audience and the press. In May 2025, he took the orchestra on a widely praised, sold-out concert tour with pianist Eva Gevorgyan, performing an all-Beethoven program at the Great Hall of the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Herkulessaal in Munich. From 2023–2025 he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Craiova “Oltenia” Philharmonic in Romania and has worked with several orchestras in Romania, Serbia, and Turkey. Equally committed to opera, Haberstock made his operatic debut in 2023 with Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles at Opera Română Craiova. He has since been invited to Opera Plovdiv, where he conducted Bizet’s Carmen and Strauss’s Die Fledermaus during the 2023–24 season.

An accomplished pianist and composer, he is the winner of multiple first prizes at piano competitions. Haberstock made his international debut at Carnegie Hall in New York and performed with Lang Lang for the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Schloss Bellevue in Berlin. He participated in the Verbier Festival in three capacities – as a pianist (2018), Junior Conducting Fellow (2019), and Conducting Assistant to James Gaffigan (2021). In 2023, he became the youngest participant in the history of the festival to be accepted into the Gstaad Conducting Academy, where he worked closely with Maestro Jaap van Zweden.

Haberstock is currently enrolled at the University of Music and 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 in Dresden.

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