The saxophonist Max Nagl was born in Upper Austria and took clarinet and piano lessons at an early age. He then studied piano at the Bruckner Conservatory, Linz, and saxophone at the Vienna Conservatory. He has played at many jazz festivals in Europe with his various own projects and bands that range from different trios and duos to quartets and quintets and more recently a 10-piece band. He has also toured in the USA, Taiwan, Australia, and North Africa. As a composer he has received numerous commissions and he writes music for theatre, dance performances, radio plays, film productions, and chamber ensembles. In Austria he was awarded the Hans Koller Prize (“musician of the year”) in 1999. He is well known for his often cinematic-sounding CDs and for his ability to mix different musical styles.