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max-holm
He is a prolific composer in several musical genres, including jazz, jazz-fusion, classical, pop, EDM, R&B, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and even Klezmer and Circus Music.
Currently, Max is recording all of Bach's 420+ Four-Part Chorales. Max also regularly records public domain music, especially for holidays. In the last 2 years, Max has composed 150 tunes. He has a reputation for quality and quick turn-around in production.
Max arranges, produces, mixes and masters all his music, as well as performing all the instrumentation. He sometimes hires other musicians and fellow Berklee College of Music alumni to contribute or to add innovation to his recordings. All collaborators have signed Work for Hire agreements, and Max retains all rights. In addition, Max publishes his own music via his company, Zamlo & Sqank Music. He is represented by BMI as his PRO. BMI also administers the publishing rights for Zamlo and Sqank Music.
Max has played hundreds of gigs across the US and in Europe, from arenas to lounges – most
recently opening the Formentera Jazz Festival in Ibiza and the Jazz at L'Estartit Fringe
Festival in Girona, Spain with his namesake quartets. As a teenager, he performed in front of 60,000 people at the Stadium of Fire in Utah on the same bill as Journey. He's also performed at smaller arenas of 15,000 and 5,000 people.
Max has played with several jazz greats, and is credited on 9 of the 10 tunes on the award-winning album, The Inside of the Outside, with Jeff Coffin, Branford Marsalis, Randy Brecker,Victor Wooten, Trombone Shorty, and other multi-Grammy winners.
While living in Spain for a couple of years, he was heavily influenced by the buleria/flamenco music of the region. Max composed an odd-meter jazz-buleria fusion instrumental tune called Gran Via about the district in Valencia where he lived at the time. In November 2019, Max had the opportunity to meet with Chick Corea in his private green room at the Boston Symphony Hall before a performance. Max played Gran Via for Chick, to which Chick said, “You make that piano sound great! Play that chorus again!”
Max's father Lars Holger Holm is a classical violinist, who toured with Max Roach during Max's double quartet experiment. Lars is also credited in the Soul Note Label live album, “Max Roach Double Quartet Live at Vielharmonie” recorded in Munich, Germany (1983).
In 1970, Max's grandfather Sven Holm was introduced to Keith Jarrett in the South of France, where Sven owned a house. Keith asked to stay for a week, but ended up staying for a month. The story goes that when Keith traveled to Sweden to receive the Polar Music Prize from the King of Sweden, he asked if Sven Holm was still alive. Max tried to connect them, but sadly Sven passed before that was possible, while Keith suffered from serious health issues for a number of years.
Max has taught several Master Classes on composition, piano technique, and comping. He has been known to improvise for hours without pain.
Max gave a TEDx talk about how a near death experience and 7 blood transfusions from 7 strangers led to his becoming a jazz musician.
He was one of the very few elite Presidential Scholars at Berklee College of Music (Class of 2020). He also spent a year as a Dave Brubeck Fellow at the Brubeck Institute in Stockton, California. In all, he received $350,000 in full scholarships.
In 2019 he was surprised to be recognized as Downbeat Magazine's Student Jazz Piano Soloist of the year.
Max has been traveling across Europe and the US since the age of 2 months. He enjoys learning about different cultures, discovering foods and learning bits of local languages. Max speaks fluent Swedish and English. He can fake pretty good Spanish.
Max's pastimes include studying history, philosophy, esoteric arts, chopping wood and investing in cryptocurrencies. He also has a keen ear for accents and can do a mean impression of most people.
Max currently lives in the Nashville, TN area. He is a dual citizen of Sweden and the US, and is authorized to work across the European Union, as well as the United States.
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