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Jeffrey Grossman (email) is a freelance pianist, conductor, and coach based in New York City. His extensive instrumental repertoire includes music from six centuries for the piano, fortepiano, harpsichord, and organ, and his work as a conductor encompasses everything from Josquin des Prez to Marvin Hamlisch. Grossman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Harvard College (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and a Masters of Music in conducting from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied with Grammy-award winning conductor Robert Page.
A native of Detroit, Michigan, Grossman co-founded and currently serves as artistic director of the Cambridge Early Music Project, a Boston-based organization that has presented numerous concerts. Highlights of past performances include Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien and Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude and Magnificat. As a pianist, he also performs regularly with soprano Dana Vachharajani on tours organized by the Piatigorsky Foundation to help bring live classical music to small communities across the United States—including, most recently, venues in Wyoming and northern Louisiana.
His teachers include Jameson Marvin and Constance DeFotis in conducting, Louis Nagel in piano, Don O. Franklin and Barbara Weiss in harpsichord, Mutsumi Moteki in coaching, and Riccardo Schulz in recording. He has participated in masterclasses for Thomas Hampson, Wolfram Rieger, Helen Donath, Thomas Enman, Lisa Goode Crawford, Jacques Ogg, Edward Parmentier, Golda Vainberg-Tatz, Lynn Rice-See, Kirk Trevor, Johannes Schlaefli, Mariusz Smolij, Rodney Eichenberger, Mathis Dulack, Kate Tamarkin, Peter Jaffe, Donald Portnoy, Paul Vermel.
He has performed with Chatham Baroque, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the Harvard Glee Club, the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, the Berkshire Choral Festival, the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, and the Amherst Early Music Festival Baroque Academy. Last summer, he served as maestro collaboratore for a production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, and as a staff pianist and teaching assistant with the University of Miami Frost School of Music at Salzburg, Austria.
Grossman is currently working on a CD project that seeks to explore connections among diverse styles of keyboard music from all eras and on numerous modern and historical keyboard instruments. The first CD in this project, "There and Back," released in September 2006, includes music by fourteen composers from four continents and four centuries. "Reunion/Retrouvailles," the next disc in the series, was released in March 2007. It represents an even wider range of musical styles and composers, from Mozart to Wuorinen, including several world premiere recordings and newly commissioned works. Jeff is also currently working on a recording of the chamber music of Leland Smith that will be recorded this summer and released in Spring 2008 on the Naxos label.
In addition to his work as a performing and recording artist, Grossman is active as a musical engraver. He has recently begun using the SCORE music publishing system, which permits an unsurpassed level of professionalism and polish. Works he has engraved have been performed by organizations from the Pittsburgh and Nashua Symphonies to numerous faculty-conducted groups at Harvard University. Grossman also works as a classical recording editor and mastering artist. His work, as part of Overtone Audio, has been released on labels including Naxos and Gothic Records.
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Consistently praised for his impressive and wide-ranging musicality in nearly every style, pianist Jeffrey Grossman's extensive experience as an accompanist includes repertoire for the piano, harpsichord, and organ from every period of the classical repertoire. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Harvard College, where he sang with the Collegium Musicum, the Glee Club, and conducted the Chamber Singers. He also co-founded and currently serves as artistic director of the Cambridge Early Music Project, an organization which has presented numerous concerts in the Boston area.
Recent performances as a conductor cover diverse ground — from Marvin Hamlisch’s A Chorus Line, to Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring, to an all-baroque concert of music by Bach and Schütz. Jeffrey recently completed a Master of Music degree in conducting at Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied with Grammy-award winning conductor Robert Page. Last summer, he served as maestro collaboratore for a production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, and as a staff pianist and teaching assistant with the University of Miami Frost School of Music at Salzburg, Austria. Jeffrey currently resides in New York City.
You can contact him at jeffrey@jeffreygrossman.com.
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