Noah Max is Artistic Director of the Echo Ensemble and Guest Conductor of the London Chorus, Kalpadruma and the BBC Elstree Concert Band. Described by John Wilson as ‘one of nature’s artists’ and by Sian Edwards as ‘a phenomenal creative personality’, he has conducted his own music in the RAH’s Elgar Room, the Musikverein Vienna and Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Noah has worked with Divertimento Ensemble at Rondo Festival in Milan and has conducted at soundSCAPE Cesena, Cadogan Hall, Cecil Sharp House and for Metier Records. Recent highlights include a rare complete performance of Berg’s Lyric Suite for string orchestra, conducting the Britten-Pears Orchestra at Snape Maltings mentored by Marin Alsop, assisting Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo at the BBC Proms and joining Sir George Benjamin rehearsing his own music at the Lucerne Festival. In December he conducts Endymion at the Wigmore Hall. Fifteen of Noah’s works will be premiered in 2019. Recently he has written for the Barbican Piano Trio, Foyle Future Firsts at the Royal Festival Hall, the Ebor Singers and the Marryat Players. Noah is a filmmaker and painter whose work has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery. His poetry has been set to music by Ronald Corp OBE.