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Max Vinetz

@maxvinetz

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Composer, Bassist 🎶
Brooklyn, New York

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Our 2026 General Commission recipient Max Vinetz’s “First Melt” for percussion and sample pads was premiered by Sō Percussion on May 15, 2024 at Lee Hall.

Click the link in our bio to discover more of his work!!

#percussion #commission #barlow #music #composer

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We are so excited for our next weekly highlight! Max Vinetz, our 2026 Barlow General Commission recipient!!

Swipe to learn more about him, and stay tuned on our page to see one of his pieces posted later this week!!

Tap the link in the bio for more of his work!

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Throwback to Fall 2025 USC Percussion Group concert. Amazing piece with electronics by @maxvinetz

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Welcome to Thurnauer MAX VINETZ! Max is an award-winning composer and will be our new department chair of Musicianship and Composition.

Originally from San Diego, California, composer and educator Max Vinetz has taught composition, music theory, music production, and musicianship to students of all ages, from middle and high school students to university undergraduates and graduate composers. He holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.M. from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, and an M.F.A. and Ph.D. in Music Composition from Princeton University. His principal teachers and mentors include Steve Mackey, Donnacha Dennehy, Christopher Theofanidis, Dan Trueman, Tyondai Braxton, Juri Seo, Kathryn Alexander, Kurt Stallmann, and Karim Al-Zand. Max’s music has been described as “accomplished and appealing” (San Diego Story) and “shimmering…euphoric” (Chicago Classical Review), and has been performed by ensembles including JACK Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, Sō Percussion, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. His honors include commissions from the Fromm Foundation and Koussevitzky Music Foundation, the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Jacob Druckman Prize from the Aspen Music Festival, the ASCAP Leo Kaplan Award, three ASCAP Morton Gould Composer Awards, and the ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Award. As a teacher, Max emphasizes curiosity, experimentation, and collaboration, encouraging students to develop a distinctive musical voice while building the technical and analytical tools necessary to realize their ideas. He believes that composition study should connect listening, creativity, and practical musicianship, and strives to meet each student at their individual level and interests. Max resides in Brooklyn, New York.

#ThurnauerFaculty #Composition #Composer #MusicEducation #kaplenjcconthepalisades #Tenafly #TenaflyNJ #bergencounty

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🌞 🌞 🌞

Kaş | Cremona | Princeton | Wien | New York City | Roma | Richmond

#musica #orchestra #composer #summer #fyp

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obligatory summer ‘26 photo dump 😎!!! many amazing adventures this summer traveling to nyc/jersey for lovely gigs with @amercomporch, @njsymphony, and @takensemble. met so many amazing folks and so grateful for the lovely community and all of the good music. ALSO I MOVED TO PHILLY‼️ gonna put on 100 lbs eating cheesesteaks and root beers, ok love yall goodbye 🤍

first pic by @alfredkanphoto

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more summer of sam if u were interested

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@soaringgardens and Ora Lerman, you are forever in my heart and soul. SO MUCH GRATITUDE for 3 weeks at this incredible place to create, rest, connect, doubt, heal, grieve, grow, learn, transform. @art_of_the_oak (Jordan) you were--are!--a great program manager, "roommate" and kindred spirit. @blackhistorymaven (Kalela), @fay.ku (Fay), @maxvinetz (Max) and @ejiro_elizabeth_edward (Elizabeth) --my fellow resident artists/cohort--you're a part of my practice from this moment forward. Despite all that life keeps throwing at me, I KNOW how fortunate I am in oh-so-many ways! I will keep saying yes, keeping showing up, keep being me and stay true to my joy and my purpose. ⁣
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My official "meet the residents" text: I am so grateful to Ora’s spirit (a kindred spirit), and to her creative spaces (especially my beloved church studio) for all the inspiration provided during my three weeks at Soaring Gardens! I absorbed every bit of the serendipitous magic that came my way and found connections between my long-time puppetry practice and the new-to-me clown work that will be at the heart of my work/play when I head to Mexico in November on a tour with Clowns Without Borders. I “met” my clown (working name SaraAnn Dippity), taught myself to juggle scarves, reconnected with the power of games, expanded puppetry bits into clown routines, designed and built puppets (an ensemble puppet, a parade puppet–and a marionette!), made the perfect music playlists for discovery, created several short participatory songs in Spanish, did lots of reading on physical comedy and simple clown– and became obsessed with the Mozi flow ring. I found time, too, to start reworking my solo puppet show “Picnic!,” taking home a new picnic basket stage, a new script AND a new opening sequence. Yoga, journaling, walks and rest allowed me to settle into the rhythms of the countryside, embracing time that both stood still for me and flew by so fast that I can’t believe I have to go home already. But I’ll go home changed. I came to Soaring Gardens weighed down by personal loss and self-doubt, and will leave having lightened my soul and invigorated my practice.

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- max vinetz - ‘physical education’
- peter fahey - ‘exterior scenes’
played by latitude 49
i-park residency
at kaufman music center

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Meet the Residents! Max Vinetz came to Soaring Gardens from Brooklyn, New York. Here is what max has to say about his time at Soaring Gardens: "During my time at Soaring Gardens, I began and completed a 23 minute, 5 movement work commissioned by New York New Music Ensemble. Each movement of the piece was named after and inspired by a different one of Ora’s pieces. Having the time and space to fully immerse myself in solitude, the gorgeous land, and the house surrounded by Ora Lerman’s artworks were inseparable from the music I composed while in residence."
#musicalcomposition #artistresidency #artistretreat #soaringgardens

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Announcing our 2026 Special Commission Winners!

Our 2026 BARLOW PRIZE WINNER - Robin Haigh!!

After reviewing 579 submissions from 50 countries, the judging panel awarded Robin Haigh the $15,000 Barlow Prize to compose a major new work for two pianos and two percussionists, to be premiered by a consortium of performers which will include Ensemble TIMF, icarus Quartet, Riot Picnic, and Yarn/Wire in 2028.

Learn more about Robin and the General & LDS Winners at link in bio!

Announcing our 2026 Special Commission Winners!

Our 2026 SPECIAL COMMISSION WINNER - Juan Pablo Jofre!!!

This year’s Special Commission for Modern Tango Quintet included 171 commissions from 28 countries. After careful consideration, the judging panel awarded Juan Pablo Jofre the $12,500 commission to write a new work for tango quintet to be premiered by Quinteto Revolucionario, the Ramiro Gallo Quintet and SONICO.

Learn more about Juan and the General & LDS Winners at the link in bio!!

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