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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.

This fall Max will be at The Mucky Duck in Houston with Croatian Texas/Slav composer Loreta Covasic (Oct 10 7:30) and with Scott Spencer at his CD release concert (Mucky Duck, Nov 19 7:30). New CD: Crossing Togo.

http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/30657

Max will be performing as usual with Houston Ballet (Manet, Nutcracker) and with Houston Grand Opera's Oct/Nov 2009 production of "Lohengrin."

December 4-7 Christmas Concerts in Maine and New Hampshire with Pianist Dana Cunningham. check link below for dates and times:

http://www.danacunningham.com

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, Atlanta- based rockers Jack Cadillac. Max is producer for albums by Andean multi- instrumentalist Charry Garcia, and Lebanese composer Mahmoud Salha.

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. Performances spring 2010 at SMU and Tarrant County College.

www.cantigamusic.com

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.

Newly released CD and concerts of East/West music with classical Indian vocalist Nanda Banerjee and keyboardist John Hardesty entitled "The Language of Peace."
for more info:

www.myspace.com/thelanguageofpeace

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


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The Houston Ballet Orchestra at the Wortham Center