The harpsichordist and recorder player Max Volbers was born in Münster in 1994. He received his training first privately and later as a junior student with Ulrike Volkhardt, Winfried Michel and Gregor Hollmann. Since 2012 he has been studying at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Dorothee Oberlinger, Florian Birsak and Reinhard Goebel.
He was a finalist in the 2015 Telemann International Competition and the 2017 German Music Competition. He won competitions such as the GWK-Förderpreis 2013, the highly endowed music competition of the GenRe in Cologne 2017 and the 9th International Johann Heinrich Schmelzer Competition.
Max Volbers has performed with musicians such as Dorothee Oberlinger, Maurice Steger, Hille Perl, Lee Santana and Naoki Kitaya and has appeared at the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, the Herrenchiemsee Festival, the Next Generation Bad Ragaz Festival, mommenta Dortmund and the Audi Summer Concerts, among others. He has worked with conductors such as Reinhard Goebel, Sir Roger Norrington, Marc Minkowski as well as Pietari Inkinen.
In 2014 he took over the direction of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra for four concerts as guest conductor and specialist for baroque music.
Master classes led him to Kees Boeke, Sabrina Frey, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Reinhard Goebel, Paul Leenhouts, Maurice Steger as well as Walter van Hauwe.
Max Volbers is a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, the Ernsting Stiftung Coesfeld, which provides him with two valuable instruments, and the Cordes-Stiftung. He was accepted into the BAKJK for the 2018/2019 season.