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. His music combines elements of four main categories: 1) Experiments based on one or few compositional or extra-musical ideas, 2) Mathematical composition based on formulas, patterns, and/or processes, 3) traditional composition, and 4) improvisation in the avant-garde, gospel or classical style. In general, his work seeks a unique sense of freedom, whether it be melodic, rhythmic or simply a break from limitations of the past and expectations of the present. Consequently, his music also seeks a sense of confidence to be what it is, unaltered, unwilling to conform, and unable to submit to influence. Yet, his works never fail to embrace the work done by past and present composers. In essence, his work strives to be the logical result of the past, yet embracing in a unique way the traditions and tendencies of the present.

Piano studies with Maria Clodes-Jaguaribe have nurtured his active performance career, playing in numerous private and large venues, including Jordan Hall, Boston's Symphony Hall, the Kresge Auditorium, and the Music Mansion, to name a few. Premieres and performances include works by himself, his colleagues Vasiliy Medved, Travis Alford, and Matthew McConnell, as well as works by Theodore Antoniou, Richard Cornell, David Liptak, Alban Berg, George Crumb, and Steve Reich. He has also served as a church musician in the gospel and traditional style, a vocal accompanist in the classical and musical theater styles, and maintains a private piano studio with students ranging from 6 to 26. He also maintains a private tutoring studio for music history, theory, and aural skills.

Compositionally, his repertoire mostly consists of solo and small ensemble works. He is currently exploring new methods to notate his expanding ideas of new musical freedoms, and combining these ideas within the compositional tradition. He has received commissions from colleagues, the Time's Arrow New Music Ensemble, New England Conservatory Chamber Singers, ALEA III, the Callithumpian Consort, the Providence String Quartet, the Laurel String Quartet, the Freisinger Chamber Orchestra, and the Mimesis Ensemble, to name a few. Future performances include a double string quartet through a residency with the Providence String Quartet, funded by the Argosy Foundation, as well as a reading and recording session of a new work 3 Groups with Alarm Will Sound. His compositional and musical work has yielded induction into Musical Honor Societies, Summa and Magna Cum Laude status, receiving the Boston University Composition Award, winning a New England Conservatory Honors Ensemble Competition, receiving two performance outreach fellowships, a Music-In-Education internship, and the first Altas Fellowship offered by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

His past teachers include Martin Amlin, Richard Cornell, Theodore Antoniou, Lee Hyla, and Robert Cogan, 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. He is currently pursuing doctoral work at the University of Colorado at Boulder, studying with Michael Theodore.

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