As a recorder player, harpsichordist and increasingly also as an ensemble leader, Max Volbers is one of the most versatile young musicians in the field of early music. Following the sound worlds of the 17th and 18th centuries, in which musicians naturally mastered several instruments, as a multi-instrumentalist he illuminates the repertoire of early music from very different perspectives. He also devotes himself to contemporary music and regularly works with composers on commissioned compositions. He studied at Mozarteum University Salzburg with Dorothee Oberlinger, Walter van Hauwe, Reinhard Goebel and Florian Birsak.

As a prizewinner of the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, among others, he is a welcome guest at the Verbier Festival, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Sanssouci Music Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele and the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music. Based on his deep conviction that early music should not be reserved exclusively for the original sound movement, he plays with ensembles such as Concerto Köln, La Cetra or the Concentus Musicus as well as with ‘modern’ orchestras such as the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the NDR Radiophilharmonie or the Musikkollegium Winterthur. He has performed in major concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Elbphilharmonie, the KKL Luzern, the Casa da Musica Porto, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Konserthuset Stockholm, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Philharmonie de Paris and the MÜPA Budapest.

In addition to his concert activities, Max teaches at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and at various masterclasses.