Maximus Escoffery is a 9-year-old pianist from Palm Beach County, Florida. He has been playing piano since age 5, and this fall he performed at the Bach to BAK Piano Festival in West Palm Beach. Max also plays cello in a youth orchestra. He loves to compose and recently wrote “My Mama’s Land,” a piano duet to play with his younger sister. Away from the piano, Max enjoys math, reading Gordon Korman books and checking on his stocks.
Watch Maximus Escoffery perform Prelude No. 21 in B-flat major, BWV 866, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I by Johann Sebastian Bach on the piano for the 2026 Instrumental Music Competition as part of the Charleston International Music Competition.