ABOUT
MAX EIDINOFF

Max Eidinoff is a composer, improviser, and educator whose music is marked by creative audacity and dramatic flair. His love of many popular and avant-garde styles creates a blend of influences resulting in soundscapes characterized as both absurd and surreal. Max writes in a variety of genres including art song, opera, concert music, computer music, film scores, and studio mixes. It is through a body of work which prioritizes storytelling and engages with ironic subtext that he aims to convey the complex adversities of the world we live in.

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As an improviser, Max plays piano and guitar. He was a member of the Peabody Improvisers Collective, performing in various Baltimore venues including An Die Musik LIVE and The Red Room at Normals Books and Records. He sees free improvisation as a space for the exploration of sonorities, both informed by and informing his compositional practice: a continuous feedback loop between his creator and creator-performer identities. As a pianist he prefers playing in collaborative contexts, his experience extending into contemporary chamber music, orchestra, opera, musical theater, and art song and choral accompanying.

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Max’s passion for teaching stems from his own curiosity and love of lifelong learning, which he encourages in each of his students. Through composition, piano, and guitar lessons, he focuses on the development of free-thinking and analytical musicians from a student’s very first lesson. He invites student observations as guiding factors for understanding compositional form and technique, informing a student’s compositional perspective and/or performance interpretation. He also introduces familiarity with 20th and 21st century music as foundational necessities for strong musicality. In addition, Max takes care to tailor lessons to each student’s individual interests and personal tastes, making their lessons more meaningful and acknowledging that there is no singular path for learning music.

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Max obtained a BM in classical composition with a minor in arts management from SUNY Purchase, studying composition with Laura Kaminsky, Gregory Spears, and Kamala Sankaram. He then attended The Peabody Institute for his MM, studying composition with Du Yun and Felipe Lara. He has also been a composition student at Seal Bay Festival, Fresh Inc. Festival, zFestival, the Choral Chameleon Summer Institute, Atlantic Music Festival, The N.E.O. Voice Festival, and Brevard Summer Festival.

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This year Max is participating in the NATS Mentoring Program for Composers, Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, Barcelona Modern International Composition Course, and Royaumont Voix Nouvelles Academy. He is also having his saxophone quartet performed at the Northwestern University New Music Conference (NUNC!).