As a soloist and chamber musician, Maxim Tzekov has been a guest at international concert halls and festivals such as the Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Victoria Hall Geneva, the Bregenz Festival, the Sofia Music Weeks, and the Cello Biennale Amsterdam. He has performed with the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, the Concertino Ensemble Augsburg, the Chamber Orchestra "Lyra" Vienna, the Symphony Orchestra of the HfMT Hamburg, the Camerata UNAB in Chile, and the Classic FM Radio Orchestra Sofia.
Maxim Tzekov is the winner of the International Violin Competition "Kloster Schöntal" 2019, where he also received the Bach Special Prize, as well as the Stephanie Hohl Competition 2021 in Vienna. As first prize winner of the International Violin Competition Alberto Lysy 2020 in Gstaad (CH) he played a violin by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume from 1829, which was generously loaned to him by the "Association Rencontre Musicale Camerata Lysy".
Since 2023 he has been part of Ulf Wallin's violin class at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin. Previously, he studied with Lieke te Winkel in Vienna (mdw) since 2015. Further studies led him to Gerhard Schulz, Annette Bik, Sebastian Gürtler and Tanja Becker-Bender. He attended master classes at the Kronberg Academy and the Keshet Eilon String Mastercourse with Vadim Gluzman, Chaim Taub, Benjamin Schmid, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Stephan Picard, Ingolf Turban, and Mihaela Martin, among others. In July 2023 & 24 he was an Academist of the Seiji Ozawa International Academy Switzerland and since November 2022 he has been substituting in the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra.