Greenwald, Andrew

Andrew Greenwald (born Queens, N.Y.) is an American composer whose work is a type of post-music, akin to the negative image of a photo. His works have been commissioned, recorded, and independently programmed by Ensemble Pamplemousse, the Arditti Quartet, JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Spektral Quartet, Ensemble Adapter, Ensemble Dal Niente, Line Upon Line Percussion, Wild Up, Gnarwhallaby, Distractfold, and Contemporary Insights, as well as soloists Seth Josel, Ryan Muncy, Yuki Numata Resnick, Weston Olencki, Matt Barbier, Joshua Modney, Austin Wulliman, Séverine Ballon, and Marco Fusi at festivals and venues throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Recent commissions have been premiered at Walt Disney Hall on the L.A Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series, The Borealis Festival in Bergen Norway, Philharmonie Luxembourg Series, Festival Musica in Strasbourg France, and the Darmstadt Ferienkurse in Germany.

In addition to freelance work as a composer, Andrew has been an active member of the composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse since 2002. His compositions have received support from the Hepner Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Deutscher Musikrat, Aaron Copland Fund, Argosy Foundation, The American Music Center Composer Assistance Program, NYSCA, A. Lindsay and Olive B. O'Connor Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund, Meet the Composer, and New Music USA.

Active in the academy, Andrew initially pursued graduate studies in composition/experimental music at Wesleyan University under the guidance of advisor Alvin Lucier, followed by additional studies as the David R. Coelho graduate fellow at Stanford University, where he received a doctorate in composition under the advisement of Jonathan Berger and Brian Ferneyhough. Currently he is Associate Professor of Music Composition and Technology at Connecticut College, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Masters in Composition/Experimental Music program at Wesleyan University during the 2021 academic year. Andrew's scores are published by Edition Gravis, and recordings of his work can be heard on KAIROS, New Focus Recordings, Carrier Records, Navona, Innova, Parlour Tapes+, TAK Editions, and Creative Sources.