Maxim was born and raised in Russia. Nowadays he is living and working in Montreal, Canada.
Laureate of 2004 Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation Award, the 2012 Rachmaninoff International Competition in St. Petersburg, and the 2013 Vienna International Piano Competition. Artist of the Trio Fibonacci, collaborative pianist of the Schulich School of Music at McGill University.
Maxim Shatalkin graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied piano with Valery Kastelsky, Elena Kuznetsova and Mikhail Voskresensky, and chamber music with Alexander Bonduriansky, pianist of the Moscow Piano Trio. After winning the prestigious Swedish International Duo Competition in 2006 with cellist Alexander Zababurkin, the local press reported: “Shatalkin revealed himself as a masterfully driven piano artist, where nothing was neglected: his performance combined a solid fidelity to style, well-adjusted temperament and overall an incredible, dazzling virtuosity”. As a member of the Kudriakova-Shatalkin piano duo, he was also a winner of the 2015 International Competition Pietro Argento in Italy and the 2016 International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in Boston (USA).
Being an exclusive artist of the Trio Fibonacci from 2022, Shatalkin carries out the series of concerts at Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, presented for the last three years more than 30 piano trios. With his ensemble Maxim took part at the concert tours in Quebec and British Columbia in 2023, performing the program of minimalist composers. In 2024 the Trio gave the concert tour in the USA and also represented the province of Quebec with their gala concert at the Centre France-Amériques in Paris.
Maxim has taken part in various music festivals around the world, including the Julita Festival (Sweden), the Concert series Science and Music (Germany), the Sviatoslav Richter Festival in Tarusa (Russia), the Ottawa Music & Beyond Festival and the Banff Summer Music Festival (Canada), the concert series Belo Horizonte Concertos Didaticos and Concertos para Belem in Brazil. Shatalkin gave his master classes at the top level United States Universities, including the Colburn School of Music (LA), the Bob Cole Conservatory (LA), Jacobs School of Music (IN), University of Michigan (MI), where he coached students in piano and chamber music.
In the summer 2023 Maxim joined the Orford Music Academy as a guest collaborative pianist for the cello class of the Juilliard School professor Natasha Brofsky.