Jay "Bluejay" Greenberg (born December 13, 1991) is an American composer and former child prodigy who entered the Juilliard School in 2002 at age 10.
17-474: Jay Greenberg may refer to: Jay Greenberg (composer) (born 1991), American composer Jay Greenberg (psychoanalyst) (born 1942), American psychoanalyst and psychologist Jay Greenberg (journalist) , American sports journalist [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
34-595: A DMus degree at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, under the supervision of Eve de Castro-Robinson . Greenberg's compositions include the following: Orchestra of St. Luke%27s The Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL) is an American chamber orchestra based in New York City , formed in 1974. The orchestra performs at several venues in New York City, including, Carnegie Hall , Caramoor Center for Music and
51-585: Is then able to simply notate what he has listened to, and rarely needs to make corrections to what he has notated. The Sony Classical label released his first CD on August 15, 2006; it includes his Symphony No. 5 and String Quintet as performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of José Serebrier and by the Juilliard String Quartet with cellist Darrett Adkins respectively. On October 28, 2007, Joshua Bell gave
68-1160: The 2024-2025 season. In February 2024, OSL announced that Labadie is to stand down as its principal conductor at the close of the 2024-2025 season. The orchestra announced a Bach Festival in June 2019, as well as the first edition in July 2019 of an annual Composition Institute. Composer Anna Clyne has served as the Mentor Composer for the Composition Institute since its inception in 2019. Orchestra of St. Luke's has premiered more than 100 orchestral and chamber works by such composers as John Adams , Joan Tower , Gabriela Lena Frank , Valerie Coleman , Anthony Davis , Nicholas Maw , André Previn , George Tsontakis , Bryce Dessner , Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Alma Deutscher . The orchestra has appeared on more than 100 recordings, four of which have won Grammy Awards : John Adams's Nixon in China , Samuel Barber 's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 , Listen to
85-659: The Arts , Saint Thomas Church (Manhattan) , Congregation Emanu-El of New York , and Merkin Concert Hall . OSL owns and operates the DiMenna Center for Classical Music , and is administratively located at 450 West 37th Street in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. OSL is the orchestra for Paul Taylor Dance Company . The core of the orchestra is the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, which
102-491: The United States. Neither his father, Robert Greenberg, a professor of Slavic languages at Yale University nor his Israeli -born mother have musical backgrounds, but Greenberg found himself attracted to music from an early age, having begun playing the cello when he was two years old. Greenberg has said he hears the music performed inside his head, like many composers, and often several musical pieces simultaneously, and he
119-486: The festival's resident orchestra. In the 1984/85 season, Carnegie Hall invited the orchestra to perform as part of a Handel Opera Festival, conducted by Charles Mackerras , Raymond Leppard , and John Nelson , and which featured performers including Marilyn Horne , June Anderson , Tatiana Troyanos and Kathleen Battle . In the 1986/87 season Carnegie Hall began presenting the orchestra in an annual subscription series, which continues to this day. The organization of
136-574: The likes of Mozart , and Mendelssohn , and Saint-Saëns ." Greenberg's primary composition instructor was Samuel Adler . He composes primarily on his computer using a music notation program and is mostly known for his work Overture to 9-11 about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks , which was featured on PRI's From the Top . On 9/11, he was living in Republic of Macedonia but has since returned to
153-399: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jay_Greenberg&oldid=890567840 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jay Greenberg (composer) Greenberg
170-400: The orchestra announced the appointment of Bernard Labadie as its next principal conductor, effective with the 2018–2019 season. The appointment was unusual in that Labadie had not conducted the orchestra prior to his appointment. His conducting debut with the orchestra was in July 2017. In March 2022, the orchestra announced the extension of Labadie's contract as principal conductor through
187-415: The orchestra's musicians falls into a three-tier roster, with the second tier of 20 players utilized for chamber orchestra concerts, and the third tier of 20 to 30 musicians for use in concerts that require larger ensembles. The pool of musicians for the orchestra generally derives from freelance New York City musicians. The orchestra musicians themselves decide on the hiring and dismissal, and assignments, of
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#1732892062239204-401: The players, without a central music director. The orchestra's first titled conductor was Roger Norrington , the music director from 1990 to 1994. Sir Charles Mackerras was the orchestra's second music director, from 1998 to 2001, but with limited administrative work and only for the designated 3-year period, per his request. Donald Runnicles was the orchestra's next titled conductor, with
221-508: The premiere of Greenberg's Violin Concerto at Carnegie Hall , performing with the Orchestra of St. Luke's . The 2011 contemporary classical album Troika includes Jay Greenberg's song "I still keep mute", setting a poem by Vladimir Nabokov . Greenberg's works are published by G. Schirmer . As of 2012 Greenberg was majoring in music at Peterhouse, Cambridge . As of 2016 he was pursuing
238-596: The title of conductor laureate, the first conductor ever named conductor laureate of the orchestra. In May 2014, OSL, with the Choral Arts Society of Washington and the Krakow Philharmonic Choir, under the direction of Gilbert Levine , made its public television concert debut performing at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington D.C., a programme titled 'A Celebration of Peace Through Music'. In May 2017,
255-403: The title of principal conductor, from 2001 to 2007. In December 2011, the orchestra announced the appointment of its current principal conductor, Pablo Heras-Casado , with immediate effect, and with an initial contract through 2015 and an extension through September 2017. Heras-Casado concluded his principal conductorship of the orchestra at the close of the 2018–2019 season, and subsequently took
272-576: Was born in New Haven, Connecticut . He caught the attention of the American media through the sponsorship of Juilliard instructor Samuel Zyman during a CBS News 60 Minutes broadcast on November 28, 2004, when Greenberg was 12, and again in November 2006. Zyman told 60 Minutes , "We are talking about a prodigy of the level of the greatest prodigies in history, when it comes to composition. I am talking about
289-659: Was founded in 1974 as an ensemble of 21 to 22 musicians. It is named for the Church of St. Luke in the Fields , Greenwich Village , in Manhattan, where the ensemble first performed. Michael Feldman, a music teacher in Manhattan, was the first de facto conductor of the ensemble. The larger Orchestra of St. Luke's was formally founded in the summer of 1979 at the Caramoor International Music Festival in Katonah, New York , as
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