Andrew Greenwald: Composer
Born in Queens, New York, American composer Andrew Greenwald explores speculative coherence in musical form through his recent work. He pursues this by crafting pixelated sound material heard at ever-finer resolutions, setting it within rational formal containers, and indexing those containers didactically so they register as a perceived whole or hole.
Groups such as Ensemble Pamplemousse, the Arditti Quartet, JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Spektral Quartet, Ensemble Adapter, On Structure, Ensemble Dal Niente, Line Upon Line Percussion, wild Up, and Gnarwhallaby have commissioned, recorded, and independently programmed his compositions. Soloists including Seth Josel, Ryan Muncy, Yuki Numata Resnick, Weston Olencki, Matt Barbier, Josh Modney, Austin Wulliman, and Séverine Ballon have also played his music at festivals and venues throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Additional performances and premieres have come from the Talea Ensemble, Ensemble SurPlus, and Elision.
On the international stage, his works have been programmed by the Borealis Festival, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäße Musik, MATA Festival, SALT New Music Festival, and Darmstadt Ferienkurse, and have been presented nationally at venues such as Roulette, Issue Project Room, openIce at Constellation, and Miller Theatre, among others.
Since 2002 Andrew has been an active member of Ensemble Pamplemousse, which was recently named to the inaugural New Music USA Impact Fund, and he currently serves as its artistic co-director. He received the 2014 Mivos/Kantor Prize, and his compositions have been supported by the Hepner Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund, Argosy Foundation, the American Music Center Composer Assistance Program, NYSCA, the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, Meet the Composer, and New Music USA.
He pursued graduate studies in composition and experimental music at Wesleyan University under advisor Alvin Lucier, and was the David R. Coelho graduate fellow at Stanford University, where he earned a doctorate in composition advised by Jonathan Berger and Brian Ferneyhough. Edition Gravis publishes his works, which can be heard on New Focus Recordings, Carrier Records, Navona, Innova, Parlour Tapes+, and Creative Sources.
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Festival Mars highlights composers and performers who push the boundaries of contemporary music. Andrew Greenwald's profile joins this roster, offering a closer look at his ensembles, festival appearances, and published recordings for listeners who want to follow his work.