He has received recognition and awards for performance and composition from ASCAP (2018 Morton Gould Winner, 2016 Finalist), BMI (2017, Finalist), Symphony No. 1, Donald Sinta Quartet, Tesla Quartet, KLK New Music, Yale University, the Reno Jazz Festival and the CMEA Jazz Festival. At Yale, Max won the Beekman Cannon Friends Prize, Beekman Abraham Beekman Cox Prize awarded to the “most promising and gifted composer” in the junior class, and was also awarded the Lewis P. Curtis Fellowship (2017 and 2018), the Tristan Perlroth Prize, and the R.J.R. Cohen Fellowship for Musical Performance. His music has additionally been featured at numerous festivals – New Music On the Point, Red Note New Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, California Summer Music, Nief-Norf, Valencia International Performance Academy, and highSCORE.