Max Maxwell has had a love of music from the time he took piano lessons as a young lad in Scotland.
Although his main passion is singing and creating community through song, he has studied or dabbled in
various instruments over the years - guitar, bass guitar, organ, flute, recorder, African drumming -
and currently plays with the M'hara Marimba band.
Max's first experience of singing Gospel was when he joined Auckland based Heaven Bent Gospel
Choir in 1996. There was no going back after that first night - he has been there well nigh every
Tuesday night since, for the first 6 years as a singer and then stepping through an assistant
director role to co-director to director in 2003. The choir sings many of Max's arrangements.
During the past years Max has run workshops and worked with many choirs throughout NZ on a
casual or regular basis. He has had leadership roles in the Aotearoa A Capella Festival (Christchurch)
and the Convergence Festival (near Christchurch) and regularly attends events such as
Summersong (Bryon Bay, Aust) and the Choral Conductors' Summer School (Wellington, 2007).
Max's passion lies in bringing people together to create harmony and rhythm in song.
All are welcome to his workshops - we all have a voice, and to sing in harmony
with a group of others often inspires confidence and brings great joy. He offers a
range of workshops from half day to residential weekend to the
hugely popular 10 week SingForJoy!
series. From the SingForJoy! series, there has been quite a demand for an ongoing group, and thus
Max is starting a Community Choir in February 2009.
He is also available to work with choirs on vocal technique and teaching new repertoire.
|
