Anthony Green: Composer, Pianist

Biography

Composer, pianist, and educator Anthony Green (b. 1984) has developed his own musical voice through his experience in diverse musical environments. In high school, he played classical piano (including some of his own compositions) in the Chopin Club, played piano and sang with jazz and pop school groups, accompanied the chorus, soloed and played viola briefly with the orchestra, accompanied musicals, and played gospel in his church. Socially, he was introduced to the music of Tori Amos, Björk, Ani Difranco, and Placebo, which has also inspired his compositions.

Piano studies with Maria Clodes-Jaguaribe have led him to maintain an active performance career. He has participated in and given several performances at Jordan Hall, Boston's Symphony Hall, the Kresge Auditorium, the Music Mansion, and other venues in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, and Long Island. He has premiered and performed works by fellow colleagues, including Vasiliy Medved, Travis Alford, and Matthew McConnell. Notable performances include Celestial Mechanics by George Crumb with pianist/composer James Radford and harpist/musicologist Ariel Gabriel in a Time’s Arrow New Music Ensemble concert at Boston University, and he participated in the world premiere of Moirologhia by Theodore Antoniou at Symphony Hall.

Compositionally, he works primarily in solo and chamber mediums, and has recently begun expanding his vocal literature. Apart from colleagues and friends, he has received commissions from the pianist Sivan Etedgee, the Time's Arrow New Music Ensemble, the Classical Marimba League, and ALEA III, where his piece Light and Dark (a.k.a. Waves of Oaxaca: Reflections of Luis Pagan) was conducted by Gunther Schuller. His choral piece Minutn Fun Bitokhn was recently premiered by the New England Conservatory chamber singers - accompanied by pianist/composer Osnat Netzer, and directed by Amy Lieberman - in a Holocaust Remembrance concert, and his string quartet Chance was recently performed at Jordan Hall by the Laurel String Quartet, and in Providence, RI and Lincoln, MA 4 times by the Providence String Quartet as a part of Community Music Works's Listen Local project. Future performances include the premiere of his Bill of Rights setting for soprano, viola, and piano, a piece for solo piano in Sivan Etedgee's upcoming season, and the premiere of Idée pour marimba et piano at Texas A&M University Commerce. Honors and awards include graduating Summa Cum Laude from Boston University, a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honors Society, the Boston University Composition Departmental Award, the New England Conservatory Honors Ensemble Composition Competition Award, and Honorable Mention in the Classical Marimba League Composition Competition. His past teachers include Martin Amlin, Richard Cornell, Theodore Antoniou, and Lee Hyla, and he has had masterclasses with Joshua Feinberg, Lukas Foss, Michael Finnissy at the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) 2006, and Walter Zimmermann at SICPP 2007.

Anthony also tutors students in many areas, maintains a private piano studio consisting of children and adult students, and he accompanies 5 ensembles at the Olney Street Baptist Church in Providence, RI. Currently, he is finishing his Masters work at New England Conservatory, studying with Robert Cogan.

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