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About the conductor
Joshua Greene is currently an assistant conductor at the
Metropolitan
Opera Company in New York City. In the 2006-2007 season he assisted James Levine
on The Magic Flute and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and in the 2005-2006
season he assisted Maestro Levine in the Met’s production of Falstaff.
He has
served as music director of the New York City Opera National Company, conducting
more than thirty performances of La Traviata throughout the United States and
Canada. The New York Times said of the production, “Its best asset is in the
pit, where Mr. Greene conducts business with a pointed enthusiasm.”
He has been a guest conductor at the Sarasota Opera, where he led performances
of Così fan tutte, La Traviata, Don Pasquale, Madama Butterfly,
Lucia di
Lammermoor and Orfeo. In addition, he conducted Rigoletto at the Augusta Opera
and a double bill of Cavalleria Rusticana and L'Oracolo at the Westchester
Opera. Mr. Greene also prepared the chorus at the
Aspen Festival Opera and was
employed by Venice's famed
Teatro la Fenice to prepare American singers for its
production of Britten's Curlew River and The Prodigal Son.
Active on the concert stage as well, Mr. Greene has conducted the
Pro Arte
Chorale on numerous occasions, leading the chorus in an acclaimed performance of
Elijah and directing chamber choir concerts. He also prepared the Pro Arte
Festival Chorus for symphonic appearances with conductors such as Gerard
Schwarz, Kenneth Schermerhorn and Hugh Wolff. In addition, he served for several
seasons as Music Director of the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, conducting the world
premiere of Seymour Barab's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in G Major.
Mr. Greene is presently Music Director of CantaLyrica, a chamber chorus based in
Glen Rock, New Jersey.
The versatile Mr. Greene, in great demand as an accompanist for song recitals,
has partnered such noted singers as tenor Franco Farina, mezzo-soprano Jane Bunnell, sopranos Joyce Guyer, Carolyn James, and Amy Johnson, and
bass-baritones James Morris and Marc Embree, at such distinguished venues as New
York's Merkin Concert Hall and Carnegie-Weill Recital Hall and the Ambassador
Auditorium in Pasadena.
Television and radio credits include appearances on the Art and Entertainment
Network’s Breakfast with the Arts and WQXR’s The Listening Room. As a visiting
artist he gave master classes at the University of Northern Iowa, Grinnell
College, and The Mannes College of Music, and was engaged by The Hartt School of
Music to do a Lieder recital with several of the graduate students.
He
also conducted a Master Class at the University of Rochester for students at the
Eastman School of Music as well as the University of Rochester. In the summers
of 2005 and 2006 he was the Musical Director and conductor of the New York
Summer Opera Scenes. He also has served as an instructor of theory and conductor
of the chorus and orchestra at the Mannes College Preparatory School.
Mr.
Greene maintains a busy studio in Manhattan, where he coaches leading soloists
of the Metropolitan Opera and New York City Opera. He also teaches piano and
conducting privately.
Born into a
musical family in New York City, he began piano studies at the age of six, later
continuing his studies with his mother, Lucy Greene, who was an eminent concert
pianist and keyboard teacher. His father was Herbert Greene, the Tony
Award-winning conductor of The Music Man and other Broadway musicals.
As a child,
Joshua Greene sang the role of the Third Spirit in The Magic Flute at New York
City Opera, with Beverly Sills as the Queen of the Night. As boy soprano soloist
with the American Boychoir (formerly the Columbus Boychoir), he toured the
United States, Canada, and Japan.
He received
his Bachelor of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Mannes College of
Music, his Masters of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Manhattan
School of Music and pursued further music studies at The Juilliard School and
the Aspen Music School.
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