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Max Mandel (* 1975 ) is a Canadian violist.

Mandel studied at the University of Toronto and the Juilliard School of Music with Steven Dann , David Zafer and Samuel Rhodes . He was a member of the Metro Quartet for six years and a student and chamber music partner of musicians such as Lorand Fenyves , Menahem Pressler and Laurence Lesser at the Banff Center for the Arts .

He then worked with The St. Lawrence Quartet , the Pacifica Quartet and Axelrod Quartet and musicians such as Jean Stilwell , Gilbert Kalish and Fred Sherry and performed at festivals such as the Montreal Chamber Music Festival , the Guelph Spring Festival , the Le Domaine Forget Festival , the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival . In 1998 he received the Special Price at the Montreal Symphony Competition , and in 2000 he was a participant in the Debut Young Artist Series . At the Caramoor Music Festival he first took part as a "Rising Star" and later as a member of the Caramoor Virtuosi .

Mandel is violist with the Flux Quartet , the most important New York string quartet for contemporary music. With this and the New York City Ballet , he performed a choreographed by Gyorgy Ligeti's String Quartet No.1 and Morton Feldman's String Quartet no. 2 in the Zankel Hall of Carnegie Hall on. He is also a member of Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Ensemble and works with the Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert , the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players , the Kirby String Quartet , the Smithsonian Chamber Players , the Class Notes , Colin and Eric Jacobsen's chamber orchestra The Knights , the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and the I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble as well as with musicians as diverse as Vera Beths , Ornette Coleman and Kirk Hammett . Mandel plays an instrument made by violin maker Gio Batta Morassi in 1973.

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• The Silk Road Project - Max Mandel
• CBC - The Kirby Quartet
• MAX MANDEL cmscva.org