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Greenberg Symphony No. 5 & String Quintet - SACD
Juilliard String Quartet , Serebrier
Articles about Jay Greenberg:
Juilliard Journal
CBS News - 60 Minutes
From Sony Masterworks:
Sony BMG Masterworks has entered into a unique collaboration with the young American composer Jay Greenberg, with an exclusive contract to record his music, Gilbert Hetherwick, President of Masterworks, announced today. Still in his teens, Greenberg already has emerged as a promising and prolific composer with a rapidly expanding catalogue of solo, chamber and orchestral works. The first Masterworks release under the agreement, released on the Sony Classical label on August 15, 2006, includes recording premieres of Greenberg’s Symphony No. 5 – with José Serebrier conducting the London Symphony Orchestra – and his String Quintet with the Juilliard String Quartet and cellist Darrett Adkins.
“Jay and his music represent the future, and I believe his work symbolizes the renewed confidence we at Sony BMG Masterworks have in the future of classical music,” Hetherwick said, in announcing the signing. “Obviously, what caught our attention was the fact of his age and accomplishment. Beyond that, the passion, the authority and the confident spirit in Jay’s music speak impressively for themselves. I think that a broad, young audience is about to make this remarkable discovery.“
In addition to the unprecedented Masterworks agreement, Greenberg is the youngest composer ever signed to an exclusive contract by IMG Artists.
Recently, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s announced it has commissioned Jay Greenberg to write a one movement violin concerto for Joshua Bell to be premiered at Carnegie Hall on October 28, 2007.
Born in 1991 in New Haven, Connecticut, he began playing the cello when he was three years old, and he later taught himself how to play the piano. His first formal lessons in theory and composition began when he was seven; three years later he enrolled as a scholarship student in both the college and pre-college divisions of New York’s Juilliard School of Music. Greenberg’s teachers there include Samuel Zyman, Ira Taxin, Samuel Adler, Ernest Baretta, Lance Horn and Kendall Briggs.
Imprint: Sony
Cover: 81804 Sacd
ISBN/ID: 828768180426
onhand: 4 Price: $
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