Max Fane is a Co-Founder of the Mascarade Opera Foundation and its former President and General Director.
Before establishing the jazz project Daisy’s Firenze and co-developing Club Nine in Florence, Max oversaw the work of the Mascarade Emerging Artists programme, as well as the foundation's non-classical and outreach programmes, including a partnership with the Alsama Project in Lebanon.
He co-founded The New Generation Festival in 2017 and Andermatt Music in 2019 alongside Francis Parham and Roger Granville.
Max is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he studied voice and piano and ran the touring opera company Raucous Rossini and chamber music series Westbourne Music.
He enjoyed an early career as a conductor before turning to arts management. He holds an MSc in Business and Management from the University of Strathclyde where he was the European Visionary Scholar.