Khaladi PrizeMaxim is honored to have been named as the recipient of the 2025 Darioush and Shahpar Khaledi Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Classical Music from Festival Napa Valley. The annual prize recognizes a rising star who has exemplified outstanding attributes as a performer and innovator.

Maxim made his debut with Czech National Symphony Orchestra last year at Smetana Hall in Prague, performing the live-premiere of American composer David Chesky’s brilliant Concerto No. 3. He now embarks on a 9-city USA Tour together again with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, this time performing the Dvorak Piano Concerto.

Maxim was honored to receive both the Schott Music Audience and the Arnold Freymuth Special Prize at the 2024 International German Piano Award held at Casals Forum at Kronberg Academy in Germany. Following the Grand Prix Concert, Bechstein News described Maxim as “one of the most powerful pianists I have ever experienced.”

View Maxim’s performance of Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto with The Cleveland Orchestra and Ruth Reinhardt conducting at Severance Hall from August 2024.

“Pianist Maxim Lando: Music belongs to the whole world” – Interview with Opera PLUS ahead of concerts in the Czech Republic at the Lednice-Valtice Music Festival and in Prague with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.

As featured in Opera Slovakia: “Maxim lives to the max. The vital and artistic power of the young pianist from the USA resonates with every touch of his hand and musical instrument. He is satisfied when he transfers it to his audience, and it becomes part of the whole concert puzzle.” Read on for full interview…

It is an absolute honor to premiere Lowell Liebermann’s Three Dances from FRANKENSTEIN this season – a major new virtuoso piano work commissioned through funds from The Gilmore – and based on Liebermann’s ballet Frankenstein. The World Premiere took place at the Gower Festival in Wales and was selected by BBC Music Magazine as one of the month’s best concert highlights in the UK. The NYC premiere takes place October 10 and 11, 2023 at Death of Classical’s The Crypt Sessions!

Thrilled to announce that Into Madness with violinist Tassilo Probst (our debut album recorded by Bavarian Radio on Berlin Classics) was just declared winner of the 2023 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) “Best Chamber Music Album of the Year” category! Read on for our recent interview with Pizzicato’s Remy Franck.