Tenor Maximilian Schmitt received his first musical experiences as a member of the Regensburg Cathedral Choir. He completed his vocal studies at the Berlin University of the Arts with Anke Eggers, participating in master classes with Ann Murray and Robert Dean Smith as well. In 2005 he became a member of the Youth Ensemble at Bavarian State Opera; there he appeared in Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux and Rossini’s Il turco in Italia. Since 2008 Maximilian Schmitt has been a member of the Mannheim National Theater, where he has taken on such roles as Mozart’s Tamino, Don Ottavio, und Ferrando as well as David in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger. In the concert hall he has partnered with the Bachakademie Stuttgart and Helmuth Rilling, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Trevor Pinnock, as well as with Andrew Manze, Thomas Hengelbrock, the Concerto Köln and the Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik. Maximilian Schmitt has recently recorded Bach’s Saint Matthew-Passion with Riccardo Chailly.