Preview Jay Greenberg’s Debut Release

Interesting:

Jay Greenberg’s debut release, Symphony #5 - Quintet for Strings, will be available in stores and for download on August 15th. To preview this
album click here to view his mediaplayer.

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.

“How do you react when you encounter an early compositional gift so extraordinary that you can’t even begin to comprehend it?” Samuel Zyman, who has taught music theory to Greenberg, wrote in The Juilliard Journal in 2003. “How […]

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