Dutch classical pianist Maxime Snaterse (1996) graduated with the highest distinction from her Bachelor of Music in 2018 as well as her Master of Music in 2020 at the ArtEZ University of the Arts in The Netherlands, where Frank van de Laar has been her teacher. In June 2023 she obtained a second Master of Music degree with the highest possible result at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, in the class of Aleksandar Madžar.

Maxime is a versatile pianist and regularly gives concerts both at home and abroad, solo but also as a chamber musician in various formations. She has already been heard in Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, De Doelen Rotterdam and on many other larger and smaller stages. In addition to playing varied solo recitals, Maxime has performed several times as a soloist with an orchestra. For example, in 2024 she played Beethoven’s 5th piano concerto in the main hall of the Kraków Philharmonic (Poland) and Concertgebouw De Vereeniging in Nijmegen, and in 2022 she premiered the piano concerto by contemporary composer T. van de Steeg and in 2017 performed Manuel De Falla’s piano concerto Nights in the Garden’s of Spain in the main hall of Muziekcentrum Enschede and De Spiegel in Zwolle. She was a prize winner at several competitions, both solo piano (including Steinway Piano Competition and Princess Christina Competition) and with her ensembles, has attended master classes with renowned pianists such as Boris Berman, Lars Vogt and Pascal Devoyon, and participated in international summer courses, including The International Holland Music Sessions in Bergen, the Summer Campus in Rostock and the International Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg.

Her regular chamber music ensembles currently consist of a duo with saxophonist Deborah Witteveen, a piano duo with pianist Marco Mantovani, a song duo with soprano Irene Hoogveld and a duo with cellist Aleksandra Czarnocka. Since 2022 she is also active as a pianist of the Dutch Lied Assocation ‘Vrienden van het Lied’. Furthermore, Maxime was part of the Young Masters Wilp and particpated in several interesting art projects; as an example in 2020 the performance of the musical theater performance ‘Graven’ together with actor Greg Nottrot of the Nieuw Utrechts Toneel. Maxime teaches piano at the Conservatory of Mechelen, among others, and in addition to her musical activities, she graduated for her Bachelor of Industrial Mangement & Engineering from the University of Twente in 2019 and with honors for her Master of Business Administration in 2020.