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The Austrian composer, music teacher and chooral conductor, Maximilian Opll, began his musical education at the age of 6x with piano lessons and by the age of 15 he was performing with a band and as a soloist. In 1993 he composed his first songs. He attended the Kirchliche Pädagogische Hochschule Wien/Krems in Strebersdorf, where he graduated in 2001 with distinction in the teaching profession for English and music education.
From the fall of 2001, Maximilian Opll began teaching English and music education at the Informatik-Mittelschule Kinkplatz in the 14th district of Vienna, where he founded the school choir "The Suburban Voices". With this he premiered his musical Weit weg in May 2006. He received several awards from the city school board and the district council for his work. He is active as a choir singer in various projects with various choirs, from 2005 to the end of 2006 he was director of the Jungen Chores in the parish of Liesing; from 2006 to 2010 musical director of the "Family Singers" in Perchtoldsdorf; and from 2007 to 2014 director of the the choir "The Changing Tunes" which he founded in Perchtoldsdorf. From January 2014, he was Artistic Director of the Wiener Lehrer-a-cappella-Chor. In March of the same year he was awarded the title Bachelor of Education by the Rectorate of the Kirchlichen Pädagogischen Hochschule Wien/Krems. He studied singing pedagogy at the Vienna Konservatorium with Martin Vácha and Mathias Reinthaller and graduated in April 2015 with distinction.
In May 2015 Maximilian Opll made his debut as a conductor in the Großer Musikvereinssaal in Vienna with George Frideric Handel's Messiah with the Wiener Lehrer-a-cappella-Chor and Capella Savaria. In April 2016 he was conductor at the Perchtoldsdorfer Franz-Schmidt-Musiktagen with Dvořák's Stabat Mater with the Wiener Lehrer-a cappella-Chor, Kirchenchor St. Augustinus and the Savaria Symphony Orchestra. In June 2016 he played Johannes Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem in the version for piano four hands in the Wiener Konzerthaus / Berio-Saal; in December 2016 J.S. Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248)/1-3 was performed, among others. in the Großer Musikvereinssaal in Vienna with the Wiener Lehrer-a-cappella-Chor and Capella Savaria. In March 2018 he performed J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion (BWV 245) at the Wiener Konzerthaus / Mozart-Saal with the Wiener Lehrer-a-cappella-Chor and the Capella Savaria. In May 2019, Felix Mendelssohn's "Paulus" followed at the Großer Musikvereinssaal in Vienna with the Wiener Lehrer-a-cappella-Chor, A capella-Chor Weinviertel and Savaria Symphony Orchestra. This concert was repeated the following day in the Bartok-Saal in Szombathely.
From 2018, Maximilian Opll did additional training as a Coach for New Authority (INA), which he successfully completed in January 2020. Unfortunately, the pandemic prevented further performances in 2020 and in the first half of 2021. Since September 2021, he has been teaching music education at the Institut für Elementarpädagogik an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Wien.
In November 2021 Maximilian Opll again conducted a concert in the Mozartsaal des Wiener Konzerthauses. The program included works by Tomaso Albinoni, Dietrich Buxtehude and Antonio Vivaldi. For the first time there was an extremely successful collaboration with the Ensemble Continuum Wien. In May 2022, he bid farewell to his position as Artistic Director of the Wiener Lehrer-a-cappella-Chor with a concert featuring works by the Bach family. Here it came again to the cooperation with the Ensemble Continuum Wien. From the summer of 2022, his musical focus was increasingly on teaching and composition.
Collaboration with soloists and orchestras (selection): Soloists: Jerilyn Chou, Johanna Rosa Falkinger, Cornelia Horak, Marlies Krug, Rannveig Braga-Postl, Elisabeth Ehrenfellner, Monika Schwabegger, Jan Petryka, Gerd Jaburek, Alexander Grassauer, Michael Nagl, Sebastian Rietz, and Martin Vacha; Orchestras: Budapest Strings, Capella Savaria, Ensemble Continuum Wien, Savaria Symphony Orchestra |
