Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (1994), Massimo Raoul Beckers started playing music from an early age onwards, among others on the piano and the guitar. He moved to the Netherlands at the age of nine.
After graduating as a Bachelor of Arts & Culture at the University of Maastricht (2013), he became a specialized Master of Musicology with his final thesis Shaping the Soundscape History (2018), as well as several papers on music in Islamic mysticism and traditional Sufi rituals. Afterwards he graduated as composer at the Utrechts Conservatory of Music ‘with honors’ (2022) and at the Meerjarige Dirigentenopleiding (2022), a studies focussed on choral conducting and conducting as a whole, where he was allowed to skip the first two years of his studies and immediately enter into the exam-year class.
Massimo conducted orchestras such as the Siamo Orchestra, Westerkamerorkest, Zeister Phiharmonisch Orkest, Kamerorkest Driebergen, Baarns Kamerorkest Artoni, Orkest Crescendo Leersum, Vechtstreek Symfonieorkest, Larens Kamerorkest, Orkest van het Groene Hart and the wind section of the Utrechts Studenten Koor en Orkest. He has led choirs such as the Utrechtse Studentencantorij, Zeister Mannenkoor, Stichts Mannenkoor, MDO-koor, Masjiach, Lastage Koor Amsterdam and Leidsche Rijn Koor.
He has also attended several masterclasses and classes with maestros such as Jorma Panula, René Gulikers and Jim Benjamin Roodnat.
Furthermore, Massimo has taught hundreds of students as a teacher in many different musical disciplines, like composition, music theory, solfeggio/ear-training, (classical) guitar and bass guitar. More info about his lessons can be found here.
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