Max Lyandvert

Composer

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

In 2021 Max was the Composer along with Justin Stanley on the Stan series Eden produced by Every Cloud. Max’s other composing screen credits include the miniseries – The Kettering Incident (Porchlight for Foxtel) and The Devils Playground (Matchbox Pictures for Foxtel), feature documentaries- Gayby Baby (Feature doco for Gayby Baby Productions), After the Wave (Feature Doco for Supernova), choir arrangements for feature Hey Hey it’s Esther Blueburger (EB Productions) and composing on the shorts The Sense Of It (Sydney Festival with Kate Champion) and Two Wheeled Time Machine (AFTRS).

For theatre, his Composer and Sound Designer credits includes – for Sydney Theatre Company Seagull, Mary Stuart, Saint Joan, Top Girls, Dinner, Australian Graffiti, Testament of Mary, Hay Fever, The Golden Age, Endgame, Children of the Sun, Macbeth, Perplex, Waiting for Godot (Sound Design) Fury, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 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; for Bell Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, In A Nutshell, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, The Miser, Antony and Cleopatra, Merchant of Venice and Othello; for Queensland Theatre The Winter’s Tale; for Belvoir Street Theatre Opening Night, The Wizard of Oz, Oedipus Rex, The Business, The Ham Funeral, UBU (Composed only), Gulls, Macbeth, The Idiot, Kafka Dances, Courtyard of Miracles, Closer, The Rose Tattoo and Twelfth Night; for STCSA The Dictionary of Lost Words (Co-Pro STC), Art and Soul and Design for Living; for Ensemble Theatre Marjorie Prime (Composer); For Theatre Works Dubbuk and for MTC El Dorado, The Ham Funeral and Diary of a Plague Year.

Max has also composed for two wonderful plays at the Burgtheater in Vienna which is a very respected theatre internationally. He was composer for the The Trojan Women in 2022 and Nosferatu earlier this year both of which were big successes. Some of Max’s other 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. 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 won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Sound Design for a Mainstage Production for Titus Andronicus and was nominated for Mary Stuart, Saint Joan, The Testament of Mary, The Age I’m In, The Art of War, The Lost Echo, Now that Communism, Festen and Julius Caesar.

For enquiries regarding Max Lyandvert please contact us via email or on (02) 9319 7199.