Max Murray | Musician

As a composer Max Murray has collaborated closely with musicians and ensembles including Christopher Otto [New York], Saviet/Houston Duo+Peyee Chen [Berlin], RAGE THORMBONES [Berlin/L.A.], Noa Frenkel [Den Haag], Léa Trommenschlager [Paris], ELISION Ensemble [Melbourne], Kevin McFarland [Colorado], Annie Gårlid+Mathilde Conley+Nathan Plante [Berlin], and Madison Greenstone [New York], among others, with works appearing in contexts such as the Gare du Nord «Dialog» [Basel], the Philharmonie Luxembourg’s rainy days festival [Luxembourg], and Klangwerkstatt [Berlin]. In 2022 his evening-length, staged multimedia piece, Georgic, for performers Samuel Stoll [Berlin], Noëlle-Anne Darbellay [Bern], and Richard Craig [Edinburgh], developed with the support of Mellon Fellowship from Harvard University, was premiered as part of a 2022 residency at the Harvard ArtLab, and the 21/22 NO HAY BANDA season in Montreal, Canada. In September 2023 he conducted the premiere of his work Schaufeln | Brayen — Rain for soprano, nine brass instruments, harp and percussion in collaboration with Apparat, Ensemble Adapter, and Olivia Stahn at Berlin’s St. Elisabeth-Kirche.