Max Lyandvert

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Max is a multi-award winning composer, sound designer, stage director and pianist.

His Composer and Sound Designer credits includes – for Sydney Theatre Company Gross Und Klein, True West, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Oresteia, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Elling, The Crucile, King Lear, War of the Roses, The Vertical Hour, Doubt, Festen Pentecost, The Recruit, La Dispute, Life after George, Fireface, Three Sisters, Lady in the Van and Life is A Dream; The Winter’s Tale for QTC; Dead City for Belvoir Street Theatre; The Business, The Ham Funeral and UBU  (Composed only) for Company B Belvoir Street: Gulls, Macbeth, The Idiot, Kafka Dances, Courtyard of Miracles, Closer, The Rose Tattoo and Twelfth Night for STCSA; Art and Soul and Design for Living for MTC. El Dorado, The Ham Funeral and Diary of a Plague Year.

Some of Max’s international work includes sound designing for New York’s Ontological Theatre’s The Four Twins.  Max composed music for About Face, Kate Champion’s solo dance work as well as Same, Same but Different for the Sydney Festival 2002. Max directed and composed the soundtrack for the Australian premiere of Richard Forman’s My Head Was A Sledgehammer for B Sharp. For 2003 Sydney Festival Max directed his own premiere work Close Your Little Eyes.

Max has won the Helpmann Award for Best Sound Design twice (War of the Roses and The Ham Funeral/Journal of the Plague Year) and been nominated for Three Sisters. He’s been nominated for the Sydney Theatre Awards for The Age I’m In, The Art of War, The Lost Echo, Now that Communism, Festen and Julius Caesar.

Max arranged the choral music for the feature film Hey Hey It’s Ester Blueburger. Max recently composed and sound designed for Never Did Me Any Harm for Force Majeure and the STC.