Matthew Greenbaum

Biography

MATTHEW GREENBAUM was born in New York City in 1950. He studied composition with Stefan Wolpe and Mario Davidovsky and holds a Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Serge Koussevitzky Music Funds/Library of Congress Commission for a new work for the Freiburg Ensemble SurPlus, and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund and the New York Foundation of the Arts.

His works have been presented/performed/commissioned by the Darmstadt Summer Festival, the Leningrad Spring Festival, the Jakart Festival (Indonesia), the Hallische Musiktage, the Fromm Foundation, the Meet the Composer/ Readers Digest Commissioning Fund, Ensemble SurPlus (Freiburg), Nuova Consonanza (Rome), Ensemble 21 (Odense), the Da Capo Chamber Players, Cygnus, Parnassus, Fred Sherry, Marc-André Hamelin, David Holzman, Stephanie Griffin, the Momenta String Quartet, Network for New Music/Penn Council on the Arts, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, Orchestra 2001, Christopher Taylor and the Riverside Symphony, and the Houston Symphony. His works are published by Tunbridge Music, Cygnus Music and the American Composers Alliance. They have been recorded for Antes, Centaur and CRI.

An all-Greenbaum CD has been released on Centaur Records. The American Academy of Arts and Letters has sponsored the releast of five works on the Furious Artisans label via iTunes. Greenbaum is also a video artist, whose works include APPROXIMATE MAN (video setting of L’homme approximatif for soprano, viola and computer sound), and the music videos ONTOGENY and ON BROADWAY. He is a professor of composition at Temple University. He is currently at work on a book, Musical Dialectic, a study of the interrelationship of musical and philosophical structure. Greenbaum was artistic director of the Stefan Wolpe Centennial Festival NY (2002-3).

He is a professor of composition at Temple University. He is currently at work on a book, Musical Dialectic, a study of the interrelationship of musical and philosophical structure. An all-Greenbaum CD is available on Centaur Records (2004). It includes UNTIMELY OBSERVATIONS for viola and piano, A FLOATING ISLAND (chamber opera), CASTELNAU for string quartet and PROSPECT RETROSPECT for cello and piano. Performers include Fred Sherry, cello; Blair McMillen and David Holzman piano; Stephanie Griffin, viola, the Momenta String Quartet and Network for New Music.

ACE Publications

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Composer Title SCORING/INSTRUMENTATION Year
Matthew Greenbaum MISCHSPRACHE pf,tape
Matthew Greenbaum ON CANNIBALS Alto Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano
Matthew Greenbaum PSALTER alto fl,eng hn,vn,va,vc,hp,pf
Matthew Greenbaum NOD, QUIET OX oboe, piano
Matthew Greenbaum ELEGY Piano Solo
Matthew Greenbaum WAR BETWEEN MICE AND FROGS
solo cello
Matthew Greenbaum SPHERICAL MUSIC Piano and Chamber Orchestra
Piano Solo, 2 Oboes, Percussion, and Strings
Matthew Greenbaum ENHARMONICON Clarinet, Trumpet, and Violin
Matthew Greenbaum per Viola sola Viola
Matthew Greenbaum MUTE DANCE Guitar
Matthew Greenbaum PROSPECT RETROSPECT Cello and Piano
Matthew Greenbaum WILD ROSE, LILY, DRY VANILLA Soprano, Flute, Oboe, Violin, Cello, Banjo, and guitar
Matthew Greenbaum BALLATE Solo Piano
Matthew Greenbaum CHACONNE BY ATTRITION Violin Solo
Matthew Greenbaum VENERABLE CANONS fl, vln
Matthew Greenbaum NAMELESS 3 Sopranos, Alto Flute, Oboe, Violin, Cello, Guitar and Mandolin with Additional String Quartet
Matthew Greenbaum CASTELNAU String Orchestra
Matthew Greenbaum ES IST ZUM LACHEN Oboe, Trombone, Violin, Cello, Percussion, and Piano
Matthew Greenbaum HOW THE AXE ESCAPED THE WOODSMAN Piano
Matthew Greenbaum WEST ÖSTLICHES DIVAN
Soprano, 2 guitars
Matthew Greenbaum O MENSCH GIB ACHT
Mezzo-Soprano

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