Max was a chorister at King’s College, Cambridge and Organ Scholar at St John’s College, Oxford, where he studied Modern Languages. He studied Choral Conducting at the Munich Conservatoire with Michael Gläser and Andreas Herrmann. In the UK he has studied conducting with Paul Spicer, organ with Anne Marsden Thomas and the late David Sanger, and singing with Robert Rice. Max is currently Director of Music at St Mary’s Church Wimbledon, Organ Scholar at Trinity Laban, Musical Director of West Barnes Singers, Accompanist and Associate Director of Thames Philharmonic Choir, and a Choral Animateur for Westminster Cathedral’s Outreach programme. He has also worked on the music staff for various residential choral courses: Eton Choral Courses, National Children’s Choir of Great Britain, and the National Youth Training Choir of Wales. He was formerly Director of Thames Youth Choir and Accompanist and Assistant Director of Tiffin Boys’ Choir.