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MAX DYER is a cellist with over 30 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.

As a classical cellist, he plays with the Houston Ballet Orchestra and is solo cellist with Houston Grand Opera's "Opera To Go". He is on the roster as sub solo cellist for Cirque du Soleil, and played for three seasons with The Houston Symphony.

2010 NEWS

Current studio projects:

Max joins Jazz singer Jacqui Sutton and the Pioneer Jazz Orchestra, for their new CD Billie and Dolly, featuring an eclectic mix of blues and bluegrass. CD Release at Ovations Houston TX Sept 2010 Time TBA

July 2010 A live CD recorded with Windham Hill recording artists pianist Dana Cunningham and trumpeter Jeff Ostler recorded in concert at Stone Mountain Arts Center Brownfield, Maine.

Various Projects with Nashville producers Jeff Nelson, Steve Dady, Nashville Gospel singer Kim Hill.

Atlanta producer Jason Hoard, Harpist Sarah Mullen, Reggae/blues artist Rory Jagdeo, Atlanta- based rockers Jack Cadillac.

Max is producer for new albums by Andean multi- instrumentalist Conrado "Charry" Garcia and co-producer for Lebanese composer Mahmoud Salha.

Fall 2010 continues Max contines as solo cellist in the new opera by Ethan Frederick Greene "A Way Home" for 6 singers, solo electric cello and keyboard in a series of concerts with Houston Grand Opera's Opera To Go.

Max continues his music collaboration with classical Indian vocalist Nanda Banerjee and keyboardist John Hardesty. Together they form the East/West improv trio The Language of Peace and perform March 13 at the The Rothko Chapel University of St. Thomas, Houston.

December 4-7 2010 Christmas Concerts in Maine, New Hampshire and Texas with pianist Dana Cunningham. go to danacunningham.com for more details on these concerts.

Max continues in his 25th year with his Renaissance Festival band Cantiga. Peforms April 20 2010 with Cantiga with Middle Eastern drum master Jamal Mohamed at Tarrant County College. Arlington TX and more performances selected weekends fall 2010 at Texas Renaissance Festival.

Max and Cantiga are working on their 5th CD. This one is a Christmas album- release date Oct 2010.

 

 

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 Rice University's Shepherd School of Music where he studied with Shirley Trepel.

His wife, Cornelia Watkins also a cellist, teaches at Rice University is currently writing her second book. see www.rosindust.com

They have three sons, Danny, Jeremy, and Michael.

 


Max Dyer with Jacqui Sutton and the Pioneer Jazz Orchestra

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