Major: Studio Music and Jazz
Instrument: Bass
Stamps Ensemble Name: Stamps Jazz Quintet Class of 2021
Maxwell Schwartz, bass, is majoring in Studio Music and Jazz at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, where he is a Stamps Distinguished Ensemble Scholar, Class of 2021. Max is a member of the award-winning Stamps Jazz Quintet directed by Chuck Bergeron. He studies jazz bass privately with Chuck Bergeron.
Max is a multi-genre instrumentalist and composer from Boston, MA. Highly acclaimed as both a bluegrass and jazz musician, Schwartz first appeared at age 16 with Grammy Award-winning bluegrass artist Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands. He toured with Lewis for three years throughout the United States, as well as with The Page Turners, an award-winning acoustic music duo based in Austin, TX, and Simon Lunche, a rising pop-rock artist from Berkeley, CA.
Max has also toured internationally as a jazz bassist, including a 2015 summer tour of France, Switzerland and Italy, two trips to Cuba in 2014 and 2016, and a trip to Japan with the 2016 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra. Max was a member of both the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Orchestra and Combo, and he was selected two consecutive years to play bass in the GRAMMY Jazz Combos.
