Maximilian Fleischman received his formative training in piano from Beatrice Allen, a Juilliard graduate who had studied with James Friskin and Nadia Reisenberg. He studied for one year at the Curtis Institute of Music, and a further year at the Barcelona Conservatory as a special student of Carmen Vilá, before earning his undergraduate degree in music history from Harvard University, where he was both a Leonard Bernstein Scholar and a Harvard National Scholar. He went on to study piano with Nelita True at the Eastman School of Music, taking both the top jury and the Performer's Certificate. While completing his master's at Eastman, Mr. Fleischman met the fortepianist Malcolm Bilson, whereupon he shifted his primary focus to performance practice and historical keyboards. He studied privately with Bilson on fortepiano, and later with Peter Sykes on clavichord, before finally earning a second master's degree in Early Music from Oberlin College as a student of David Breitman. A relative newcomer to Winnipeg, Mr. Fleischman teaches piano and theory privately, and appears regularly as a soloist, chamber musician, and continuo player, performing repertoire spanning five centuries and four instruments. Mr. Fleischman has also contributed to the field of music as a librarian, administrator, author and lecturer.