SELECTED COMPOSITIONS AND
PERFORMANCES
L'homme approximatif (2006) for soprano, viola and
computer-generated sound
23 May 2006 "Approximate Man: the Music of Matthew
Greenbaum" at the Chelsea Art Museum
Re'ut Ben-Ze'ev, Stephanie Griffin:
Bau (2006) for English horn, violin, cello, banjo and
guitar
23 May 2006 "Approximate Man: the Music of Matthew
Greenbaum" at the Chelsea Art Museum
The Cygnus Ensemble
Ballate for piano (2005). Blair McMillen, piano
23 May 2006 "Approximate Man: the Music of Matthew
Greenbaum" at the Chelsea Art Museum
24 April 2005 Bloomingdale House of Music NYC
4 May 2005 The Italian Academy at Columbia University
Castelnau (2002) for string quartet
The Momenta Quartet
December 16, 2005: Symphony Space (NYC)
April 8, 2003: Rock Hall, Temple U. Philadelphia
March 4, 2002: Galapagos Brooklyn NY
Squire Allworthy’s Menuetto for cello and guitar (2005)
The Claremont Duo: Schloss Horst, Germany 18 March 2005
(world premiere)
Bargemusic NYC 31 March 2005
Bargemusic NYC 1 April 2005
Paper Dissolve (2004) computer-generated sound. SEAMUS 20th
Anniversary, Temple U
23 May 2006 "Approximate Man: the Music of Matthew
Greenbaum" at the Chelsea Art Museum
Wild Rose, Lily, Dry Vanilla (2004) for soprano, flute,
oboe, violin, cello, guitar and banjo
The Cygnus Ensemble/Haleh Abgheri
May 13, 2004: NY Society for Ethical Culture
May 12, 2004: Sarah Lawrence College
Sweet Siren (2004) for viola, baritone saxophone and piano
The Glaux Ensemble
April 12, 2004: Haverford College PA
March 22, 2004: Symphony Space NYC
March 21, 2004: Rock Hall, Temple U. Phila
To Anselm Kiefer (2003) for piano trio
March 14 2003: The Parnassus Ensemble, CUNY Graduate Center
NYC
Untimely Obervations (2002) for viola and piano
Stephanie Griffin and Blair McMillen
April 10, 2003: League of Composers/ISCM, Americas Society
NYC
April 22, 2003 Temple U. Philadelphia
May 22, 2002: Paul Hall, Juilliard School of Music
Prospect Retrospect (2002) for cello and piano
October 13, 2002: Fred Sherry and Stephen Gosling, Kaufman
Hall NYC
Per Viola Sola (2001)
Stephanie Griffin, JakArt 2001 Festival: Jakarta, Indonesia
Meloi (2001) for English horn, bassoon, trumpet, violin,
viola, cello and guitar
The Parnassus Ensemble: May 1, 2001 Kosciusko Foundation
NYC
The War Between the Mice and Frogs (2000) for cello solo
Da Capo Chamber Players/André Emilianov
January 28, 2003: Kaufman Concert Hall NYC
Sonic Boom/Christopher Finckel
October 20, 2000 Cooper Union NYC
Mute Dance (2000) for solo guitar
Oren Fader/The Cygnus Ensemble
December 11, 2002: New York Society for Ethical Culture
December 4, 2002: Sarah Lawrence College
Dance Moments (2000) for flute and piano
Ensemble Surplus
June 28, 2004 E:Werk, Freiburg
July 3, 2004 MDR Festival Leipzig
New York New Music Ensemble
December 8, 2002 Fullerton Friends of Music, Fullerton
Callifornia
Sepetember 11, 2002 Biblioteca Angel Arango, Bogota
Colombia
April 23, 2002 Symphony Space, NYC
Temple University Faculty Trio: March 23, 2000 Rock Hall,
Temple U. Philadelphia
New York Flute Club: December 15 2002, CAMI Hall NYC
A Floating Island (2000) chamber opera
April 1, 2001: Masahito Sugihara and others, Northwestern
U.
Cygnus Ensemble netcast
Network for New Music “The Music of Matthew Greenbaum”
May 3, 2000: Christ & St. Stephen’s Church NYC
April 16, 2000: Rock Hall, Temple U. Philadelphia
Monologues (1999) for narrator and piano
23 May 2006 "Music of Matthew Greenbaum" at the Chelsea Art
Museum
Network for New Music “The Music of Matthew Greenbaum”
May 3, 2000: Christ & St. Stephen’s Church NYC
April 16, 2000: Rock Hall, Temple U. Philadelphia
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (1996) for baritone and bass
clarinet, horn, vibraphone, horn, and string trio
The Parnassus Ensemble/Victor Ledbetter, Merkin Concert
Hall, February 26, 1998
Balletti (1998) for percussion solo
James Preiss, Manhattan School of Music, November 8, 1998
Elegy (1998) for piano solo
David Holzman
November 8, 2002: C. W. Post College NY
February 8, 1999: William Paterson University NJ
May 7, 1998: Tel Aviv University
March 16, 1998: Christ & St. Stephen’s Church NYC
Three Little Symphonies (1998) for two saxophones
Swope Hall, West Chester U. PA April 16 2004
Ovidiana (1996), chamber opera
Network for New Music:
May 4, 1997, Temple U. Philadelphia
May 5, 1997, Dicapo Opera Theater NYC
Into the Clefts of Streets (1996) for clarinet/bass
clarinet cello, piano and marimba
New York New Music Ensemble, Merkin Hall, NY February24,
1997
East River (1996) for violin and piano
Curt Macomber, James Winn, recital
Washington Square Chamber Music Society. Merkin Hall March
22, 1999
Settlement School Contemporary Players, Philadelphia
November 2, 1997
Spherical Music (1995) for piano and chamber orchestra
Riverside Symphony/Christopher Taylor
February 8, 2002: Alice Tully Hall, NYC
Riverside Symphony International Composers Readings: June
18 2001
Orchestra 2001/Charles Abramovic
March 29, 1996 Swarthmore College, PA
March 31, 1996 Philadelphia Museum of Art
Andante Cantabile (1995) for violin and string orchestra
Nina Beilina, vl/Greenbaum cond. with Bachanalia Festival
Orchestra
April 6, 1995 Alice Tully Hall, NYC
Nod Quiet Ox (1994) for oboe and piano
June 4, 2003: Fabian Menzel and Bernhard Endres,
Musikhochschule Nürenberg
March 23 2000: The Fromm Players at Harvard
The Parnassus Ensemble
October 30, 1999: U. Pittsburgh
October 26, 1999: Rock Hall, Temple U. Philadelphia
The League/ISCM/Marcia Butler: Weill Recital Hall NYC,
February 21, 1995
Split Voice (1994) for double orchestra
Winner, Riverside Symphony International Reading: January
22, 1995.
Enharmonicon (1994) for clarinet, trumpet and violin
The Parnassus Ensemble
NYC October 6, 1994: Merkin Concert Hall
October 8, 1994: Rock Hall, Temple U. Philadelphia
on the river the shadowy group (1993) for baritone
saxophone and piano
Marshall Taylor and Charles Abramovic
January 22 2001: “Genealogies,“ Manhattan School of Music
Network for New Music “The Music of Matthew Greenbaum”
May 3 2000: Christ & St. Stephen’s Church NYC
April 16 2000: Rock Hall, Temple U. Philadelphia
April 11 1994: Free Library of Philadelphia
November 13 1992: Network for New Music, Rock Hall, Temple
U, Philadelphia
Psalter (1992) for mezzo-soprano, alto flute, English horn,
string trio, harp and piano
The Parnassus Ensemble /Joyce Castle
New York Society for Ethical Culture: September 3, 1992
Network for New Music/Christine Schadeberg
Settlement School, Philadelphia April 24 1992
Fourth Book of Motions (1992) for soprano saxophone and
electronic sounds
Network for New Music: “The Music of Matthew Greenbaum”
Christ & St. Stephen’s Church NYC: May 3 2000
Network for New Music: “The Music of Matthew Greenbaum”
Network for New Music, Rock Hall, Temple U. Philadelphia:
April 16 2000
Patrick Zimmerli, Slosberg Hall, Brandeis U. November 19,
1992
Amulet (1990) for piano solo
Anthony DeMare:
December 9, 1992: WNYC-Radio, Around New York
Randall Hodgkinson:
February 3, 1992: Lehman Hall, Harvard University
January 28,1992: University of New Hampshire
David Holzman:
November 12 1996: Ethical Society of Philadelphia
Darmstadt Summer Festival 1994
Leningrad Spring Festival 1991
October 9, 1990: Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
November 15, 1990: Arizona State University
November 13, 1990Southwest Texas Contemporary Music
Festival
Kathleen Supové:
April 1, 1992: Extension Works, Boston,
Second Book of Motions (1989), for orchestra and electronic
sound
Houston Symphony Orchestra, ASOL Readings, May 17, 1989
First Book of Motions (1987) for pre-recorded electronic
sound
December 5, 1991: St. Petersburg Conservatory, USSR
Nov. 4, 1987: Composers Resources, Atlanta
Oct. 17, 1987: Contemporary Directions Ensemble, University
of Michigan,
Mischsprache (1986), for piano and electronic sound
Marc-André Hamelin, Network for New Music, Philadelphia,
May 7, 1988
Commedia (1986) for trumpet, trombone, tuba, violin, viola,
cello, double bass, piano and harp
The Parnassus Ensemble
Benefit Concert, Ethical Culture Society, NYC: October2,
1991
Merkin Hall, NYC: March19, 1987
Contemporary Directions Ensemble, U. of Michigan
Ann Arbor: October 17, 1987
Rondeau (1981) for recorder, lute and viol
Het Queekoven Ensemble:
Holland, December 9, 1981: Stadsschouwburg, Arnhem,
December 3,1981: Doelen kleine zaal, Rotterdam
November 27, 1981: Ijsbreker, Rotterdam,
Notker's Tale (1980) for clarinet, horn, string trio,
marimba and two gongs
SMS Players, Settlement School, Phila. May 4, 1989
The Composers Conference, Johnson, VT: August 12, 1981
Chamber Music (1980) for flute, cello and piano
League/ISCM, Carnegie Recital Hall, December 8, 1984
WNYC Radio, New Sounds, December. 7, 1984
Washington Square Chamber Music Series, March 4, 1982
The Contemporary Trio
December 5, 1980: Cooper Union New Music Forum, NYC
March 11 1980: Goucher College
Aria #4 (1977) for harp solo
Alyssa Hess
International Harp Week 1977, The Hague
December 14, 1977 Resonance, The CUNY Grad Center, NYC
Aria #2 (1976) for cello solo
Maxine Neuman:
March15, 1981: Gymnasium Marianum, Warburg, West Germany
August 12, 1977: WNYC Radio NYC: Young Concert Artists
July 16, 1977: WQXR Radio NYC: Artists in Concert
Aria #1 (1976) for violin and piano
Group for Contemporary Music, May 16, 1977
The Composers Conference, August 10, 1976
Two Chaconnes (1974) for flute, cello and piano
The Walden Trio: The Phillips Collection, Washington DC,
December 8, 1975
THEATER MUSIC
Joan Evans (performance artist): The Woman Whose Feet are
Backwards, electronic score:
Stella Adler Institute NYC 1994
Alabama Shakespeare Festival (various: 1985-87)