‘All focused intensity and chaotic curls, long pauses and fast-talking, the composer, conductor, artist and poet noah max is a fizzing creative fuse’
Alexandra Coghlan, The Sunday Times
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With a creative life embracing music and painting, poetry and cinema, British-Austrian artist Noah Max enjoys illuminating the relationships between different mediums.
Max is the composer of more than 60 works of opera, chamber and orchestral music which have been performed at venues including London's Royal Festival Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall and Vienna's Musikverien. His opera A Child In Striped Pyjamas was lauded by critics as 'a Holocaust drama that's emotionally ambitious and vocally eloquent' (The Telegraph). He was awarded the Clements Prize in 2021 and his second album was released in 2025.
As a conductor Max has performed at the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room, Cadogan Hall and Wigmore Hall. For almost a decade he was Creative Director of the Echo Ensemble, which commissioned over 100 new works.
Max’s artwork has displayed at the National Portrait Gallery and his third solo show of paintings, entitled REDACTION, took place in November 2024. He enjoys collaborating with writers such as Sir Michael Morpurgo, Carol Ann Duffy and John Boyne. Max’s columns have been printed in The Irish Times, The Strad and The Jewish Chronicle; he has been interviewed for BBC Radio 4 Today, Radio 3 In Tune and Times Radio as well as BBC Music Magazine, Classical Music and Opera Today; his work has featured on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, RTE Radio 1 and RTE Lyric Radio.
Noah Max is managed and published worldwide by Birdsong, a HarrisonParrott-associated company. His earlier works are published by United Music Publishing. A selection of his drawings and prints are represented by McNeill Contemporary.
★★★★★ ‘Immense conviction and power’
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