Maximilian Guth is composer, artistic director of the Asambura Ensemble, music mediator and religious educator. He received compositional impulses from Prof. Dr. Benjamin Lang, Prof. Christoph Hempel, Prof. Tobias Rokahr, Prof. Maria Baptist, Thierry Blandeau and Annette Schlünz. Maximilian Guth finished his studies of Music in the department of Gifted and Highly Talented Children at the HMTM Hannover in 2009 with distinction. From 2010 to 2017 he has been studied music with composition as his major subject, and furthermore he studied Protestant theology. After graduating with distinction in historical and contemporary composition from the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, he is currently continuing his studies in theology and global development in Aachen. He worked together with some prestigious ensembles like ensemble recherche (Freiburg), Staatskapelle Halle, Ensemble Horizonte Detmold, Sächsische Bläserphilharmonie and Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie Herford. Maximilian Guth is the artistic director and composer of the international Asambura-Ensemble (since 2014) and the conductor of the orchestra of the Medical School Göttingen Camerata Medica (2015 – 2019). His compositions are inspired by the interaction of different cultures and religions.
Maximilian Guth gave several workshops on “Composition and Improvisation as an Expression of Cultural Diversity” in the context of Young Euro Classic in Berlin (2019) and in Contemporary music in schools in Lower Saxony (2018, 2020).
Awards | scholarships
2016 „special prize contemporary music“ at the 9th German orchestral competition of the German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat) with the youth symphony orchestra Braunschweig (GER) and conductor Knut Hartmann 2013 first prize at the composition contest of the youth symphonic orchestra hannover (founder: Ingo Metzmacher) 2009 first prize at the orchestral composition contest “15 years music & congress hall Lübeck” (GER) 2009 advancement award at the international composition contest for celesta by the company Schiedmayer 2009 IMPULS-prize for orchestral composition Halle (GER) 2009 first prize at the first orchestral composition contest Halberstadt (GER)