Maxim Khokholkov was born in 1980 in Leningrad. There he studied the violin in the Central Music School at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory (classes of Lilia Etigon, Vera Dobrynina), then he continued his studies at the Moscow State Conservatory, including the post-graduate course there (Professor Eduard Grach's classes). He attended master classes of Yehudi Menuhin, Miroslav Rusin, Shlomo Mintz, Ida Haendel, Ivry Gitlis, and Vadim Gluzman.
He then joined the Moscovia Chamber Orchestra under E. Grach, while in 2003-2018 he had been a member of the Russian National Orchestra under the direction of M. Pletnev (since 2013 - the associate concertmaster of the first violin section). He has also worked as a soloist at the Concert Department of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. He has performed in many important concert halls of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, toured over Russia and abroad.
He got a Diploma at the S. Diaghilev All-Union Competition of Young Musicians (Moscow, 1991) and at the Youth Arts Assemblies Competition (Moscow, 1992). He also won awards at the Kloster Schöntal International Violin Competitions (Germany, Third Prize in 1992; First Prize and a Special Prize in 1993), the Concertino Praga (Second Prize, 1993), the Xeme Competition (France, 1996), the A. I. Yampolsky Competition (1999), SION Valais (Switzerland, 2002), Musica Classica (First Prize in the “Chamber Ensemble” nomination, 2012), as well as at the Virtuosos 2000” International Youth Music Festival in St. Petersburg (1994).
Since April 2018 - concertmaster of the second violin section at the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia. He has performed as soloist with other orchestras in important halls of Russia and abroad.