Maximilian Otto, born in Chemnitz in 1998, has been second Kapellmeister at the Theater Chemnitz since the 2023/24 season and has already conducted revivals of Fledermaus, Offenbachs‘ Orpheus in der Unterwelt, My fair Lady and Carabet as well as performances by Martinů's Die Drei Wünsche.

He is a prizewinner of the 11th MDR conducting competition, in which he conducted his own world premiere with the MDR Symphony Orchestra in the prizewinners' concert. He has also been a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation since 2019. He attended master classes with Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Omer-Meir Wellber, Johannes Pell, Ole Kristian Ruud and Christian Thielemann, who invited him to a sponsorship rehearsal designed as a master class at the Salzburg Festival in 2022, in which he conducted the Staatskapelle Dresden in the big festival hall. He has also worked with orchestras such as the Sinfonietta Dresden, the Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau, the Jena Philharmonic, the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen, the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic, the Erzgebirgische Philharmonie Aue, the Sinfonia Rotterdam, the Hradec Králové Philharmonic and the Kodály Filharmónia Debrecen. He has already worked as a musical assistant and/or répétiteur for certain productions at the German National Theatre Weimar (Strauss' Ariadne), at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin (children's opera production of Wagner's Lohengrin), at the Gaechinger Cantorey (Haydn's Creation) and at the Landesbühnen Sachsen (Marschner's Vampyr).