Maximilian Marcoll (born in 1981 in Lübeck) is a German composer and performer. Biography From 1992 to 1997 Marcoll studied percussion at the Lübeck Academy of Music, as of 1997 he continued to study composition with Friedhelm Döhl and Dirk Reith in Lübeck and 2001–2006 at the Folkwang Hochschule 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 of the Robert Schumann Hochschule, also since 2007 at the Institute for study preparation of the Music School Kreuzberg in Berlin. Since 2017 he holds a teaching position at the University of the Arts Bremen. He writes works for solo instruments, for ensembles of various instrumentations, including vocal ensembles, as well as electronic music. His works also include sound installations, videos and media art. For performances of his works, he has collaborated with numerous soloists, ensembles and conductors, such as Eva Zöllner, Heather Roche, Sebastian Berweck, Mark Lorenz Kysela, LUX:NM, Suono Mobile, Ensemble Handwerk, Neue Vocalsolisten, AAA---AAA, Ensemble Mosaik, Ensemble United Berlin, Ensemble Nadar, Mocrep, Oh-Ton, Vladimir Jurowski, Enno Poppe, José Luis Castillo and many more. In 2005 he received the Folkwang Award and in 2006 the Franz Liszt Award of the Music Academy Weimar. For his Amproprifications 6.1 & 6.2 he received an honorary mention at the MA/IN Festival in Matera, Italy in 2018. Residencies led him to the CMMAS in Morelia, the ICST in Zurich, the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop and the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics (iem) in Graz. Work Marcoll's works repeatedly focus on political and societal aspects. In the installation "Umverteilung" in Ditzingen 2010, for example, he focussed on tracing social imbalances. In his series of works "Compounds" (2008-2014), he combined collected sound material from his immediate surroundings into a "material network" that served as the basis for 8 solo and ensemble compositions. Other works with a strong political impact are "Personal Data" from 2013, a "speech performance for communication monitoring" as well as "If music be the food of love", which deals with music used for torture in US-American secret prisons. Adhan Marcoll's piece "Adhan" for Carillon and Tape, written in 2015 but not premiered in its original form, attracted some attention. It combined the singing of