Belgian-American violinist Maximilian Haft has been living in Europe since 2009. A multi-faceted musician, he specialises in the interpretation of contemporary music and improvisation. He performs both on large stages and in more intimate venues.

As a soloist, Maximilian Haft has performed and premiered concertos for contemporary violin with the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, the Ensemble Contrechamps and the Collegium Novum Zürich. He has premiered works by composers such as Samuel Andreyev and Dominique Schafer, and has worked closely with Heinz Holliger, Oliver Knussen, Hans Zender, Beat Furrer, and Michael Gordon. He has performed at festivals such as the Donaueschinger Musiktage, Eclat-Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart, the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the Archipel Festival, the Pori Jazz Festival, the Umbria Jazz Winter in Orvieto (Italy), the Edinburgh World Festival, and the Festival for New American Music in Sacramento. He has taken part in residencies at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley and the Royal Conservatoire in Birmingham, and has been a guest lecturer at La Manufacture in Lausanne and the Haute école de musique in Geneva.

Maximilian Haft studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Zaven Melikian and Wei He. He holds a Bachelor's degree in violin performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He holds a master's degree with honours from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and studied with Vera Beths. He is currently a doctoral student in the arts research programme at Leiden University.