top of page
Maddox Schatten 1.jpg

Biography

I (born December 2013) started taking piano lessons at the age of three and a half. After just six months of lessons, it turned out that I was an exceptional talent. By then I was already playing all my pieces from sheet music.

​

At the age of four and a half and after only ten months of lessons, I made my debut at a summer concert in the Altlandsberg Castle Church and have been playing in concerts regularly ever since. Since January 2019 I have been taught by the pianist and Echo Klassik award winner Elisaveta Blumina, who received a video recording of me via the Berlin State Opera.

​

Since August 2019 I have also been taking composition lessons. In the same month I composed my first piece entitled “Kuh Wilma”. Since then, further compositions have followed, mostly for piano, for violin and piano, as well as a composition for voice, violin and piano entitled "Spring". For some time I have been working on a quartet for violin, viola, cello and piano.

​

At the end of August 2019, at the age of five, I was invited as the youngest young musician to an international master class in Israel, where I also played two concerts in Elma Hall, among others, where I not only performed as a soloist but also for the first time together with Elisaveta Blumina. Just a month later, I received an invitation from the University of Music and Theater in Rostock to play a piano concert, where I was a guest pianist

​

In October 2019, as by far the youngest, I took part in both the Steinway Piano Competition and the 11th National Bach Competition for Young Pianists in Köthen, where I won a prize in the age group up to ten years. In January 2020 I won first prize with the highest score at the regional competition of "Jugend musiziert".

​

Since perfect hearing is essential for a first-class musician, I have also been receiving comprehensive training in voice and ear training since February 2020.

​

So far I have won more than 120 national and international prizes, always 1st to 3rd prizes, three times even the Grand Prix as well as several special prizes for the best interpretation of contemporary and baroque compositions and for exceptional talent and excellent musicality. In the meantime, I have also won 2nd and 3rd prizes and two 1st prizes in my first participations in composition competitions with my night watchman sonatina and with an invention, and I was also very successful in the category "piano accompaniment" with my first participations.

​

I was also very fortunate to be able to perform in numerous concerts at home and abroad during this period, e.g. B. in the Kaisersaal of the Stadtmuseum in Füssen, in the Beethovenhaus in Bonn, in the Solitaire Mozarteum in Salzburg (Austria), in the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, in the Church of St. Agnus in Köthen (where Johann Sebastian Bach already worked), in the Parco Della Musica in Rome (Italy), in the Glass Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna (Austria), in the Elgar Room in the Royal Albert Hall in London (England), in the Monestir de Pedralbes in Barcelona (Spain), in the Auditori Josep Viader in Girona (Spain) and in the Kleine Zaal des Concertgebouws in Amsterdam (Netherlands) or in the Musikteatret Holstebro (Denmark), just to name a few. At the age of 7 I gave my first solo concert, since then further solo concerts have followed, mostly together with my brother Miles (7 years, violin).

bottom of page