Maximilian Wolfgang Schwarz

Maximilian Wolfgang Schwarz was born in Vienna in 1997. At the age of 5, he started playing the drums with his first teacher in Geneva, and two years later the family moved to Bielefeld, where he widened his musical horizon at the local Musik- und Kunstschule learning classical percussion. He played in many bands and won multiple awards competing in classical competitions. Since 2020 Schwarz has concentrated his studies on classical percussion, and he also composes classical pieces, avant-garde pop and music for films.

Max Schwarz is co-founder and drummer of the neurofunk/postrock band CozmicRip (since 2016) and of the contemporary classical/electronica trio maTrigal (since 2019). After passing his classical final exam with distinction (2019), partly for his interpretation of Keiko Abe’s marimba concertino The Wave, Maximilian won a first prize at the international “Rising Talents of Europe -Great Composers Competition Series”, performing the same piece (2020).