Maxim Dybal-Denysenko was born in New York City to a Ukrainian father and an Austrian mother. He has been playing piano since the age of five and composing from the age of thirteen. As a first-generation American, he has been brought up in and embraced the Ukrainian, Austrian, and American cultures. This balancing act is also reflected in his life through his interests and passions for the Arts and Sciences. Recently, he graduated NYU with a double degree in Music Composition, studying with Ezequiel Viñao and Justin Dello Joio, and Mathematics.

He has been commissioned to write music for various ensembles including the NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble, Hypercube Ensemble, Fiveplay Wind Quintet, the Rhythm Method String Quartet, and worked with the Mivos Quartet on a another string quartet. He has received numerous awards including the NYU Steinhardt Departmental Award, two-time recipient of Lincoln Center's Diane Koston Fellowship, and the ASCAP Irving Caesar Composition Scholarship. He has recently begun writing music for dance and has already been programmed for the NYU MFA Dance Concert and What We Carry: New Voices in Dance and Music at the Lambert Center for Arts & Ideas. In addition to his concert music, Maxim has also written music for motion pictures, including a short for Converse by Cole Swanson and Tuning by César Oyarzabal, and is currently working on two thesis films for SVA and NYU students. He also has worked as a music supervisor for the award winning documentary Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground and Runaway.

Most recently, along with his colleague Jackie Andresen, Maxim was a recipient of the NYU Steinhardt Undergraduate Student Research and Creative Project Grant to pursue the production of an extended string technique-based sample library. He was also the winner of the NYU Concert Composition Competition being awarded a residency with the NYU Orchestra for his piece “An American in Vienna”. The piece, which premiered April 26th, 2023, is based on his experience in Vienna during the 2020/21 school year. He also was Society for New Music NY Federation of Music Clubs / Brian Israel Prize for his string quartet “Der Bodensee” which is based on the nature around his family’s house in Austria.