Maxim was born in Kiev, he graduated from the National Music Academy of Ukraine as an oboist (2005) and composer (2009), and from the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln as a composer (2016). He is the winner of national competitions Gradus ad Parnassum (Kyiv, 2000), Step to the Left (St. Petersburg, 2012), Skoryk Competition (Lviv, 2021). In 2023, the Metropolitan Opera commissioned an opera from Maxim about the abducted Ukrainian children. His music has been performed at international festivals such as the MATA Festival (New York), Summer New Music Courses in Darmstadt (Darmstadt), Sommer in Stuttgart (Stuttgart), New Talents (Cologne), Donaueschinger Musiktage, Warsaw Autumn (Warsaw), World Music Days (Leuven), Other Space (Moscow), Gogolfest (Kyiv), Contrasts (Lviv), Randfestspiele (Zepernick), Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival (New York), etc. Interpreters of his music include the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble MusikFabrik (Cologne), Haydn Orchestra (Bolzano), Arditti Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Amaryllis Quartet (Hamburg), Ascolta (Stuttgart), KlangForum Heidelberg, notabu.ensemble, Latenze Ensemble (Basel), Lions Gate Trio (U.S. and Europe), Neo Quartet (Gdansk), Ukho Ensemble (Kyiv), National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (Kyiv), Kyiv Chamber Orchestra (Kyiv), Ensemble Nostri Temporis (Kyiv), Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Moscow), Ian Pace (London), Helen Beldsoe (Cologne), Hayk Melikyan (Yerevan), Enno Poppe (Germany). Maxim Kolomiiets is a co-founder of the Ensemble for Contemporary Music Ensemble Nostri Temporis (2007), founder of the Baroque music ensemble Luna Ensemble (2014), and music curator at Gogolfest Kyiv (2017).