Stuart Greenbaum

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Stuart Greenbaum
Genres Classical
Occupation(s) composer, educator
Website www.stuartgreenbaum.com

Stuart Greenbaum (born 1966) is an Australian composer and professor of music composition at the University of Melbourne. He is currently the Head of Composition at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. [1] [2] [3]

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Greenbaum has had his work performed by both the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. [1]

Life and career

Stuart Greenbaum grew up in Melbourne, his mother a trained classical composer who taught music at Deakin University. [2] His original influences when young were pop, rock and blues, before later becoming interested in jazz. [2] Greenbaum went on to study composition with Brenton Broadstock and Barry Conyngham at the University of Melbourne. Greenbaum plays the piano, as well as the oboe and the electric guitar. [4]

He collaborated with the Melbourne poet Ross Baglin to create 20 works, including a 24-minute choral composition. [4] [5] [6]

The early 1990s saw Greenbaum producing a number of pieces for stage, including a time as the resident composer at the Playbox Theatre in Melbourne. [7] In 1993, as a young composer, he was commissioned to write Aaron Copland: In Memoriam, the first of a series of ten works commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation by young Australian composers. [8] One of his first major works to be commissioned was The Foundling, commissioned by Cantori New York in 1997, and From the Beginning commissioned for the sesquicentenary of the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic in 2003. [9]

Greenbaum's work Nelson, a 3–act opera with libretto by Ross Baglin, was presented in London in 2005 and premiered in full at the 2007 Castlemaine State Festival. [10] He was a featured composer at the 2006 Aurora Festival. In 2007 he was commissioned by the artistic director of the Southern Cross Soloists to compose a work featuring Marshall McGuire. [2]

His work 90 Minutes Circling the Earth was named Orchestral Work of the Year at the 2008 Classical Music Awards. [11] While it had been written in 1997, it was not recorded on CD till 10 years later, at which point it was brought to the attention of the judges. [4] In 2009 he was Australia's representative for the Trans-Tasman Composer Exchange, working in Auckland with NZTrio on a new piano trio, The Year Without a Summer. This work toured nationally for Chamber Music New Zealand, in Sydney for the ISCM World New Music Days (2010) and internationally at the City of London Festival (2011). [12] [13]

Greenbaum lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife, a violinist. [4]

Awards

Discography

Selected major works

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References

  1. 1 2 Cathcart, Michael (January 31, 2006). "The Deep End - Stuart Greenbaum, composer". Radio National . Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "An odd trip from postcard to harp". The Sydney Morning Herald . May 22, 2007. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  3. ↑ Dalgarno, Paul (December 5, 2016). "Stuart Greenbaum: Composed at 50". Pursuit. Retrieved December 15, 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Dow, Steve (October 28, 2008). "Long play Long play". The Age.
  5. 1 2 stuartgreenbaum.com Official page http://www.stuartgreenbaum.com/words%20and%20music/words%20and%20music/selected_works.html
  6. 1 2 "The Works of Stuart Greenbaum" Australian Music Centre https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/search?type=work&sort=alphaTitleSort&wfc[]=Stuart+Greenbaum
  7. ↑ Jane Sullivan "A Sinister Tale Of Magic, Love And Voodoo Religion", The Age, 27 January 1993
  8. ↑ Kenneth Hince, "Verbitsky True To Form With An Impressive Rendition Of Planets" The Age, 22 March 1993
  9. ↑ Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Official site - main page http://rmp.org.au/rmp-orchestra/
  10. ↑ Usher, Robin (March 26, 2007). "Art in high gear, carbon stays neutral". The Age.
  11. 1 2 "Top musicians honoured at classical awards". ABC News. July 22, 2008.
  12. ↑ Dart, William (April 22, 2010). "NZTrio: Enchanting dialogue in ultimate dreamworld | Chamber Music New Zealand". www.chambermusic.co.nz. New Zealand Herald.
  13. ↑ Button, John "Trio Shines Despite Uninspiring New Repertoire" Dominion Post, 26 April 2010
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