Max Fane

Max Fane

Inspiring the next generation
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.

The Florence Choral Course as an annual summer course, which thanks to our supporters is made entirely free for participants and dedicated to the study, performance and promotion of Italian choral music. Up to 25 singers from all over the world have the unique opportunity to come to Florence for in immersive period of daily rehearsals, choral technique workshops, individual singing lessons, archival tours, history lectures and masterclasses with world famous practitioners, including soprano Dame Emma Kirkby and director of Milan Cathedral Choir Maestro Massimo Palombella.
The week culminates in concert and ecclesiastical performances in some of Florence’s most iconic buildings, including Palazzo Tornabuoni, Santissima Annunciata and Santa Maria Novella, as well as a sung mass in the great cathedral of Milan.

In addition, the programme’s advanced choral course for aspiring professional singers provides students a unique opportunity to come to Florence for an intensive programme of study, rehearsals, masterclasses and performances, as well as historical lectures and tours in the heart of the most important city of Renaissance. 

In addition, the programme’s advanced choral course for aspiring professional singers provides students a unique opportunity to come to Florence for an intensive programme of study, rehearsals, masterclasses and performances, as well as historical lectures and tours in the heart of the most important city of Renaissance. 

HOW TO APPLY

Applications for the Florence Choral Course July 2024 will open on 1 January 2024.

To apply please send two recordings and your CV to thesacredmusicprogramme@mascaradeopera.com

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