In 1998 Xavier de Maistre became the first French member of the Vienna Philharmonic. He has worked with conductors such as André Previn, Simon Rattle, Riccardo Muti, Daniele Gatti, Philippe Jordan, Kristjan Järvi, Bertrand de Billy, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Daniel Harding and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, and been invited to perform with orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Swedish and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Philharmonic Orchestras of Los Angeles, London, St Petersburg and China, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
In France he has worked with orchestras including the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre national de Lyon and the Philharmonic Orchestras of Monte-Carlo, Montpellier, Lille and Nancy. He has given recitals at the opera houses of Paris, Lille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nice, Poitiers and Avignon.
With the flamenco artist Lucero Tena, Xavier de Maistre participated in a programme of Spanish repertoire that toured through Europe, Japan and China, and was recorded for CD by Sony Classical (2019). He also works regularly with Diana Damrau, Arabella Steinbacher, Daniel Müller-Schott, Baiba Skride, Antoine Tamestit, Mojca Erdmann and Magali Mosnier. Since 2020 he has also performed regularly with Rolando Villazón, with whom he recorded a programme of South American folksongs for Deutsche Grammophon. In the 2022/23 season they will perform together at venues including the Alte Oper Frankfurt and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
As a soloist, Xavier de Maistre has performed at numerous prestigious festivals, among them the Rheingau Music Festival, the Salzburg Festival, the Wiener Festwochen, the Verbier Festival, the Budapest Spring Festival, the Würzburg Mozartfest and the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. In summer 2020 he was artist in residence at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. His 2021/22 engagements have taken him to venues including the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, the Stuttgart Liederhalle and the Graz Musikverein.
Xavier de Maistre has been an exclusive artist with Sony Classical since 2008. He was awarded an ECHO Klassik award as Instrumentalist of the Year for his 2009 debut album Nuit d’Étoiles, featuring works by Debussy. His newest album Christmas Harp (2021) features paraphrases and fantasies on a selection of well-known Christmas carols, along with music by Schubert and Tchaikovsky.
Xavier de Maistre regularly commissions new compositions for harp, and makes his own transcriptions of well-known instrumental works.
