(b. 28 November 1968, Vancouver, British Columbia).
Canadian composer of mostly stage, orchestral and chamber works that have been performed in North America.
Mr. Maxwell is primarily self-taught as a composer, but studied composition privately with Ladislav Kubík in Prague in 1999–2000 and with David K. MacIntyre and Owen Underhill at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia from 1999–2001, where he earned his MFA in interdisciplinary studies.
Among his honours are the C. D. Nelson Memorial Scholarship (1999), the ArtsFACT Award (1999, for bodig-menen, shared with the ensemble Standing Wave) and Third Prize and Audience Prize in the BC Emerging Composers Competition of the ensemble Vancouver New Music (2000, for forberen).
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
STAGE:
Why use a hammer when a feather will do (dance music, choreography by Helen Walkley), 1999
Eurydice Plays Dead (incidental music, direction by Mallory Catlett), 1999
Learning to Die from Moment to Moment (dance music, choreography by Claire French), 2000
She needs to wear warmer clothing in colder weather (dance music, choreography by Helen Walkley), 2000
The World Extends No Further (than the driveway of this house) (dance music, choreography by Shannon McMurchy), 2000
sleepyhead (chamber opera in 1 act, libretto by the composer, after Anton Chekhov), 2000–01
Loose Feathers (dance music, choreography by Claire French), 2001
And it flew... (dance music, choreography by Helen Walkley), 2002
And what hearing is, and seeing... (dance music, choreography by Helen Walkley), 2004
Where Fools Tread (dance music, choreography by Claire French), 2005
No Leg to Stand On (dance music, choreography by Helen Walkley), 2005–06
ORCHESTRAL:
Concertare, harp, orchestra, 1991
Seven Dedications, 1994–95
monologue I, 1995
monologue II, 1996
monologue III, 1996
cambiare (concerto), harp, orchestra, 1998–2000
tenere, 2002–03
CHAMBER MUSIC:
Fantasia for Seven, 4 French horns, harp, cello, double bass, 1991
Sextet, flute, bass clarinet, French horn, viola, double bass, piano, 1993
here, hereafter, flute, bassoon, harp, 1994
nefalden..., piano, percussion, 1997
charis, flute, A-clarinet, cello, 1998
du(lied), violin, piano, 1998
interus, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, bassoon, piano, 1998
...on conflict, clarinet, harp, viola, 1998–99
forberen, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 1999
bodig-menen, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 1999–2000
brethen, 4 saxophones, 2000
antara, string quartet, 2001
intueri, piano, ensemble (3 B-flat trumpets, 3 trombones, 2 percussion), 2001–02
reflectere, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 2004
leven, flute (+ piccolo), oboe (+ English horn), clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, cello, double bass, piano, percussion, 2004
pensare, flute (+ piccolo), oboe (+ English horn), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), French horn, bassoon (+ contrabassoon), 2005–06
placea, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, French horn, tuba, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, piano, percussion, 2007
CHORAL:
silent, so silent (text by Neil Eustache), female chorus, 1997
VOCAL:
Three Stanzas from Alexander Pope (text by Alexander Pope), soprano, oboe, bassoon, viola, timpani, 3 percussion, 1992
Autumn Day (text by Rainer Maria Rilke), mezzo-soprano, violin, accordion, vibraphone, marimba, 1997
in between (text by Alex Ferguson), soprano, mezzo-soprano, fixed media, 2005
PIANO:
Piano Symphony, 2 pianos, 1991
medius, piano 4 hands, live electronics, 1998
ELECTROACOUSTIC:
Vak, fixed media, 1998
FILM SCORE (DIRECTOR):
ab ovo, 2002 (Alex Williams)