Max I. Chung is a Korean-American composer and sound artist, traversing borders and building bridges between distinct genres of electroacoustic music.  His work fuses diverse influences from textural music, Asian EDM and jazz, exploring the free association of texture, timbre and color in sound.  Chung’s compositions seek to express powerful sonic stories about the inner psyche, creating work that explores primal and visceral sound worlds.

The renowned composer John Harbison has stated that “Max is a composer to watch”.  He is the recipient of the Walter J. Nelson Prize, the ICE Commission Award, and the Margery MacColl Award for Excellence in Music.  Max Chung’s original compositions have been performed by leading new music performers, including the Neave Trio, the PRISM quartet, Yarn/Wire, Alice Ivy-Pemberton, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and Hypercube.    His commissions have premiered at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, and the Paulson Center in New York City.  Most recently, his multimedia installation, Metroequilibrium was exhibited on Governor’s Island for Harvestworks’ Art & Technology show in New York City.

Max holds a degree in music composition from Brown University and a master’s in music technology from New York University.  He has studied with Eric Nathan, Wang Lu, Marti Epstein, Butch Rovan, Robert Rowe, Lelia Adu, and Tae Hong Park.