Max Greenwood
Songwriting Lecturer
Lead Lecturer on the Songwriting Commercial Modern Music Degree, and Songwriting Diploma in Professional Musicianship, Max has taught in BIMM since 2012.
From Nottingham, Max has lived in Ireland since 2005. A piano player-songwriter, his composition and improvisation is influenced by Classic Pop, Folk, Gospel, Blues & Jazz, with several albums, EPs, sync placements, and new music released regularly. He has written, recorded and played live in venues including The National Concert Hall, SXSW, RTE’s Other Voices, and BBC’s Later With Jools Holland, and in various line-ups with artists including Mundy, Jerry Fish, Iona Sound, OTIS, Tom Baxter, Liam Ó Maonlaí (The Hothouse Flowers), Iarla Ó’Lionáird (The Gloaming), Mik Pyro (Republic of Loose), Jack L, Vyvienne Long, Albert Hammond (The Air That I Breathe), Adrian Crowley, Charlie Winston, Gerr Walsh, Fionn Regan, and The London Community Gospel Choir.
Max has overseen BIMM course redesign based on the results of an internally funded Learning and Teaching Development Project, in which it was investigated and found Lecturer-modelled music creation within private online groups drove strong improvements in engagement, achievement, and attendance.
His arts-funded initiatives have included community education projects The Point of the Tide (Sing a Song of Docklands), celebrating Ringsend & Irishtown in Dublin Bay, in collaboration with local young people and artist Jerry Fish, and SongRise, providing Ecological Songwriting & Recording workshops for children in Hackney, London.
Max teaches privately, between third-level BIMM Institute and other secondary-level providers. He has also worked as sound engineer in recording studios.
