MAXIMILIAN BEER IS CONCERTMASTER OF THE GUSTAV MAHLER JUGENDORCHESTER

MAXIMILIAN BEER, born in Berlin in 2003, has won the audition for the concertmaster position of the GUSTAV MAHLER JUGENDORCHESTER (GMJO).

A prominent jury chaired by Prof. HELMUT ZEHETNER, Head of Strings of the GMJO and member of the Vienna Philharmonic, and with Prof. HUBERT KROISAMER, also member of the Vienna Philharmonic, and with FRANZ-MARKUS SIEGERT, Concertmaster of the ORF RSO Wien, has chosen Maximilian Beer from a total of 14 admitted candidates in the first round and 6 candidates in the second round, after an intense audition day at our partner university MDW – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien.

Previously a member of the GMJO himself (2023), Maximilian Beer was educated at the Musikgymnasium Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, where he studied as a pre-college student under Prof. Stephan Picard and Prof. Tomasz Tomaszewski. He began his bachelor’s studies with Prof. Sarah Christian and Prof. Friederike Starkloff at the HMDK Stuttgart.

Since 2025, he has been studying at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Byol Kang. He is a multiple first-prize winner at Jugend musiziert and the winner of the Stockholm International Music Competition. He gained orchestral experience with, among others, the Bundesjugendorchester (German National Youth Orchestra), the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra, and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester.

In the 2023/24 season, Maximilian Beer was an intern with the SWR Symphonieorchester and performed with the hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony and the Staatsorchester Stuttgart under conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle and Kirill Petrenko. Since 2025, he has been an Academist at the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO Berlin).

Maximilian Beer plays a violin by Tomaso Eberle (1770).

Photo credits: Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Jann Wilken; GMJO Archive