Andrew Greenwald

Andrew, percussion
composer-in-residence

Andrew Greenwald (eend3ru: gri:nwald) 1. v. produces works in twos 2. n. a Steelers fan 3. n. lover of all felines.

Andrew Greenwald(born 1980, Queens N.Y), produces work which satisfies his fascination with the extremes of duration, density, texture, and their collective absence. His compositions have been programed by The Vancouver Jazz Festival, Festival of New Trumpet Music, Nhebraska Noise Fest., DUMBO Art Under the Bridge, SoundBubbles(for emerging NYC artists), Darrmstadt ‘Essential Repertoire of the Avant-Garde’ at Issue Project Room, HI-Fi New Music, the International Supercollider Symposium, NYCEMF, and the 2010 MATA Festival. Residencies include The Banff Centre, Western Front(Vancouver BC), Harold Arts, Pamplemousse Seedlot, Soaring Gardens, and the Wellesley Composer's Conference. He has been commissioned by Ensemble Pamplemousse, On Structure, Tall Brown Boots, and the Flux Quartet. Work has been supported by NYSCA, The Argosy Foundation, The A. Lindsay and Olive B. O'connor Foundation, Wesleyan University, and the Ora Lerman Trust.
An active educator, Andrew has been an invited lecturer at the Manhattan School of Music, the School at the Art Institute of Chicago, Hartwick College, and taught classes at The Banff Centre and Wesleyan University. He holds a BM in music from New York University(cum laude), and is currently a graduate fellow in the composition program at Wesleyan University, working with advisor Alvin Lucier. Andrew will pursue a DMA in composition at Stanford University beginning in the Fall of 2010.