Born in Bochnia in 1989. PhD student at the Department of Conducting of the Music Academy in Cracow, from which he graduated in the class of Paweł Przytocki.

In the years 2008–13 he was the conductor of the Archetti Jaworzno City Chamber Orchestra, garnering awards at several international competitions. He also worked with other youth ensembles. He has initiated, authored, and coperformed many educational concerts. As one of five conductors, he participated in the Ovid’s Metamorphoses Erasmus Intensive Programme at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest, premiering an opera written by ten composers from seven European countries.

He has received many scholarships including the Jerzy Katlewicz (2009), Sapere Auso (2012), Minister of Science and Superior Education, and Cracow Music Academy (three times). He has appeared with leading musicians including Kaja Danczowska, Morten Zeuthen, Benjamin Gilmore, Marek Nosal, and Marek Andrysek. During the 2013/14 artistic season he was conductor-in-residence at the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic in Łódź. During 2014 Warsaw Autumn, he directed, conducted and narrated the premiere of the stage work Mr. Pebblestone in the World of Sounds. Composed of twelve musical miniatures by Cracow Music Academy students, it enthused the public as well as festival critics. In January 2015, he conducted the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra orchestra in Katowice.

For three years, Maciej Koczur has cooperated with Marek Chołoniewski, conducting the ElektroNova, Vibrator Ensemble, and The Last Minute Orchestra. He is also a founding member of Oktofonia, active in Cracow since 2011. Together with painter Grzegorz Mart, he runs a novel project combining conducting with painting. In 2014 he was awarded with the Polish Culture Foundation’s Little Sceptre award.