Maximilian Marcoll

Maximilian Marcoll (* 1981 in Lübeck) is a German composer and performer. He studied percussion, instrumental and electronic composition in Lübeck and Essen. In his work he has focused on the political potential of music and sound. Since April 2021 he has worked as professor of electroacoustic composition and sound art at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar and the Bauhaus University Weimar. Biography Marcoll first studied percussion at the Musikhochschule Lübeck from 1992 to 1997, composition with Friedhelm Döhl and Dirk Reith in Lübeck from 1997, and at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen from 2001 to 2006 with Thomas Neuhaus, Dietrich Hahne, Günther Steinke and Orm Finnendahl. In 2002 he founded the electronic duo dis.playce together with Hannes Seidl. Since 2006 he has been a member of the artist group stock11. From 2007 to 2014 he taught at the Institute for Music and Media at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, also since 2007 at the Institute for Preparatory Studies at the Musikschule Kreuzberg, and from 2017 to 2020 inclusive he held a teaching position at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. In 2021 Marcoll was appointed professor of electroacoustic composition and