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 |
