Milan Boxberg, born in 2005 in the Rhineland, discovered his passion for the double bass at the age of six in the string class of his primary school.
At 14, he passed the entrance examination for the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and was admitted as a junior student to the class of Prof. Rick Stotijn. Since 2023, he has continued his studies there in the Bachelor’s program.
He has also received important artistic impulses in masterclasses with Dominik Wagner, Dorin Marc, Gary Karr, Olivier Thiery, Alberto Bocini, among others.
As a versatile musician, Milan Boxberg is active as a soloist as well as in orchestral and chamber music settings. He made his solo debut in 2023 performing Giovanni Bottesini’s Concerto in B minor with the Bergische Symphoniker. As a chamber musician, he has appeared at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and at SPANNUNGEN, where he has performed alongside artists such as Alice Sara Ott, Christian Tetzlaff, Thomas Reif, Sharon Kam, and Danae Dörken.
He has gained orchestral experience as principal double bassist in the Bundesjugendorchester and the Landesjugendorchester NRW. Since 2026, he has been a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
At the “Jugend musiziert” competition, Milan Boxberg was awarded first prize at the national level in both 2019 and 2022, and also received several special prizes. Since 2019, he has been a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and performs on a double bass from the German Musical Instrument Fund.
Copyright: Stefan Pieper