Robert Max enjoys a colourful career as conductor, cellist and chamber musician. He regularly conducts the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra in Covent Garden, at the St. Jude's Proms and in the Rye Festival. Since 2000 Robert has been invited each year to conduct the Arad Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir in western Romania including concerts broadcast on Television and he has also conducted the Oradea Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2001 he made the first of three annual visits to Tambov in Russia to conduct, give recitals and direct a week-long chamber-music academy. As a mark of gratitude for his work the Rachmaninov Institute awarded him the title of Honorary Professor. Robert has also performed as soloist and conductor with the BBC Concert Orchestra and with the Kazakh State Symphony Orchestra in Almaty. He currently conducts the Symphony and String Orchestras at Royal Holloway, University of London. Robert was Musical Director of the Nonesuch Orchestra and the Zemel Choir from 1994-8, with whom he recorded two CDs for Olympia and toured Israel in 1996. Robert has worked with many distinguished soloists including Ralph Kirshbaum, Gyorgy Pauk, James Kirby, Richard Lester, Aled Jones, Roger Chase, David Pyatt, Tim Hugh and Nicolai Demidenko. In September 2005 Robert became Musical Director of the Oxford Symphony Orchestra.

Robert's career as a solo cellist has taken him all over the UK, to the USA, Germany, Denmark, Holland, France, Austria, Russia and Romania. As cellist of the Barbican Piano Trio for eighteen years, Robert has performed on four continents, recorded for ASV, Black Box, Dutton and Guildmusic, performed live on the BBC World Service and Radio 3 and on TV and Radio in Europe and the USA. The Trio gave a Beethoven Trio Cycle in the Wigmore Hall's Master Concert Series in 1995 which they repeated in a dozen other parts of the UK. Two CDs of music by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Schnittke were released in 2001 with a further CD of chamber music by Sergei Taneyev released this year on the Dutton label. Robert was Musical Director of Pro Corda, the National School for Young Chamber Music Players from 1998 to 2000 and now coaches chamber-music at MusicWorks. He is Principal cellist of the London Chamber Orchestra.