Jeffrey Grossman

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Jeffrey Grossman (email) is a freelance pianist, harpsichordist, 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. In Fall 2009, he will begin studies in historical performance at The Juilliard School as a student of Kenneth Weiss.

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. He is the founding harpsichordist of New York period instrument quartet Callisto Ascending. As a pianist, he also performs regularly with soprano Dana Vachharajani and cellist Evan Drachman on tours organized by the Piatigorsky Foundation to help bring live classical music to small communities across the United States—including this season, venues in Vermont, New York, Louisiana, Ohio, and Kentucky.

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 played in masterclasses of 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. This summer, he performed in dell'Arte Opera Ensemble's Summer Readings series as the pianist for their semi-staged performance of Mozart's Così fan tutte.

Grossman is active as a recording pianist and harpsichordist. He has released two solo CDs as part of a personal 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. In the 2008-09 season, he released a two recordings devoted to contemporary American composers: New Dawn, with soprano Amanda Forsythe, of Carson Cooman's vocal works and piano solos (on Albany Records); and the chamber music of Leland Smith with vioinist and violist Sarah Darling (on the Naxos label).

In addition to his work as a performing and recording artist, Grossman is active as a musical engraverusing 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, Gothic Records, Zimbel Records, and Albany Records.

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Jeffrey Grossman’s extensive musical activities include continual performances as a pianist, harpsichordist, and conductor. Acclaimed for his musicality in every style, he was recently praised as a “sensitive and fluent accompanist” of “flair and conviction” in Fanfare magazine. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Harvard College, where he sang with the Glee Club and conducted the Chamber Singers, and a Master of Music degree in conducting from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied with conductor Robert Page. In Fall 2009, he will begin studies in historical performance at The Juilliard School.

Jeffrey co-founded and currently serves as artistic director of the Cambridge Early Music Project and is the founding harpsichordist of New York early music ensemble Callisto Ascending. Last season, he held an appointment as the assistant conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Harvard College’s mixed chorus. This year, Jeffrey released three compact discs he recorded with various collaborators on the Albany and Naxos record labels. He currently resides in New York City and Boston. http://www.jeffreygrossman.com

 

 

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