Maximilian Otto, born in 1998, has been second Kapellmeister at the Theater Chemnitz – a renowned A-house with the Robert Schumann Philharmonic – since the 2023/24 season and has already conducted the revivals of Fledermaus, Offenbach’s Orpheus in der Unterwelt, My fair Lady, Carabet and Martinů's Die Drei Wünsche. In the 2024/25 season he will conduct the premiers of Frid’s Diary of Anne Frank, Charpentier’s Louise, as well as the revivals of Rigoletto, Carmen, Hänsel und Gretel, La bohème.

Maximilian completed a bachelor's degree in orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden with Prof. Ekkehard Klemm and a master's degree at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar with Prof. Nicolás Pasquet and Prof. Ekhart Wycik.

He is a prizewinner of the 11th MDR conducting competition, in which he conducted his own world premiere with the MDR Symphony Orchestra in the prizewinners' concert. He has also been a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation since 2019. He attended master classes with Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Omer-Meir Wellber, Johannes Pell, Ole Kristian Ruud and Christian Thielemann, who invited him to a sponsorship rehearsal designed as a master class at the Salzburg Festival in 2022, in which he conducted the Staatskapelle Dresden in the big festival hall. He has also worked with orchestras such as the Sinfonietta Dresden, the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau, the Jena Philharmonic, the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen, the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic, the Erzgebirgische Philharmonie Aue, the Sinfonia Rotterdam, the Hradec Králové Philharmonic and the Kodály Filharmónia Debrecen. He has already worked as a musical assistant and/or répétiteur for certain productions at the German National Theatre Weimar (Strauss' Ariadne), at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin (children's opera production of Wagner's Lohengrin), at the Gaechinger Cantorey (Haydn's Creation) and at the Landesbühnen Sachsen (Marschner's Vampyr).