MAX DYER is
a cellist with over 25 years of professional experience
in the United States and abroad. As an improvising cellist,
he is fluent in many musical styles and performs at festivals,
jazz and folk clubs, churches and recording studios.
Recent studio projects
include
projects with Nashville producers Bryan Lennox and
Jeff Nelson, Winnepeg producer Dave Zeglinsky with Canadian
singer Steve
Bell, banjo wizard
Bobby Earthman, Blackfeet Indian singer/songwriter
Jack
Gladstone,
Max played with Nashville
artist Steve Azar during the halftime show of The Houston
Texans/New Orleans Saints game in Reliant Stadium, Houston
on Nov 18. A free download of the performance is available
at Steve Azar's website.
In October, Max collaborated
with internationally recognized Beat poet
Anne Waldman and New York dancer/choreographer
Douglas Dunn. They were joined by Chilean
multi-instrumentalist Conrado "Charry" Garcia
for a performance of "Tanks Under Trees" at the
University of Houston Mitchell Center on October 11. read
the review
Max continues in his 22rd
year with his Renaissance Festival band CANTIGA.
Cantiga's music has recently been selected for use as a
film score by Vancouver independent filmaker Morley Macdougal.
The short film will be submitted to major film festivals
around the world.
Upcoming album and concerts
of East/West music with classical Indian vocalist Nanda
Banerjee and keyboardist John
Hardesty entitled "The Language of Peace."
As a classical cellist,
he plays with the Houston Ballet Orchestra (see photo below)
and the Houston Grand Opera and the Houston Chamber Orchestra.
He is on the roster as sub solo cellist for Cirque du Soleil.
For a decade, Max toured
widely in Great Britain and Sweden with the Fisherfolk,
an ecumenical community based in Scotland on the Isle of
Cumbrae. As a member of the Fisherfolk, he performed in
churches and cathedrals throughout Great Britain and led
music residencies at Oxford University and Kings College
Cambridge.
Max holds a Bachelors
of Music Degree from the University of Houston and a Masters
Degree from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music where
he studied with Shirley Trepel.
His wife, Cornelia Watkins
is also a cellist. They have three sons, Danny, Jeremy,
and Michael.
MAX DYER is a member of
The Internet Cello Society |
