Stuart Greenbaum
Stuart Greenbaum’s sound has overt connections to jazz, pop and minimalism, yet is equally grounded in the Western art music tradition, across a large body of orchestral, chamber, choral and stage works.
Having studied composition with Broadstock and Conyngham at the University of Melbourne, Stuart Greenbaum is Professor of Composition at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (Head of Composition, 2007–2023). He is the author of over 200 works, including 19 sonatas, five piano trios, seven string quartets, five concertos, four symphonies and two operas.
His music appears on some 40 commercially released CDs, among them eight releases devoted solely to his output (The Final Hour, The Thin Blue Line, Return Journey, Satellite Mapping (MD 3402), Mondrian Interiors, 800 Million Heartbeats, Mercurial and Music for Theatre). Prizes include the Dorian Le Galliene Award, the Heinz Harant Prize and the Albert Maggs Award. 90 Minutes Circling the Earth won Orchestral Work of the Year at the 2008 Classical Music Awards.
Nelson, a three-act opera with libretto by Ross Baglin, was presented in London in 2005 and premiered in full at the 2007 Castlemaine State Festival. Their second opera, The Parrot Factory, received a five-show season in 2010 from Victorian Opera at The Malthouse. Major choral works include The Foundling, commissioned by Cantori New York in 1997, and From the Beginning, commissioned for the sesquicentenary of the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic in 2003. Orchestral scores include works for the SSO, TSO and AYO, and Symphony No. 2 (Double Planet), commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Major chamber works have been written for The Australia Ensemble, Southern Cross Soloists, Ensemble Liaison and Sydney Omega Ensemble.
He was Featured Composer at the 2006 Aurora Festival, resident composer at the 2009 Port Fairy Spring Music Festival and Composer in Focus at the 2009 Bangalow Music Festival. 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, which toured nationally for Chamber Music New Zealand, appeared in Sydney for the ISCM World New Music Days (2010) and was heard internationally at the City of London Festival (2011).
Stuart Greenbaum is featured on the following titles
Satellite Mapping
Amir Farid performs Stuart Greenbaum’s complete solo piano works composed between 1989 and 2014, a two-disc survey of more than two hours of music.
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Veiled Virtuosity
Amir Farid’s debut solo recording, made after his win at the 2006 Australian National Piano Award, ranges from Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata and works by Brahms, Liszt and Prokofiev to Australian scores by Stuart Greenbaum and Carl Vine, with two pieces by Iranian composer Javad Maroufi.
Giants in the Land
Recorded in Melba Hall, this world premiere finds Melbourne pianist Ian Holtham in a brilliant cross-section of Australian contemporary piano works by Brenton Broadstock, Linda Kouvaras, Stephen Ingham, Stuart Greenbaum, Johanna Selleck and Christine McCombe.
The Sky Is Melting
Marianne Rothschild and Glenn Riddle formed as a duo in 2004, recording Stuart Greenbaum’s Sonata for Violin and Piano for the CD Mercurial. Broadcast on ABC Classic FM, ABC Radio National, 3MBS FM and Radio New Zealand, they have premiered and recorded many works by Melbourne composers including Broadstock, Greenbaum, Pertout, Schmidt and Kouvaras.
Compositions by Stuart Greenbaum also appear on
Flute Perspectives, Vol. 2
Derek Jones (flute) and Cameron Roberts (piano) present a programme of Australian works by Anne Boyd, Stuart Greenbaum, Rohan Phillips, Mark Pollard and Richard Meale.
70 More Variations on "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
The tune “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” has fascinated and irritated composers through the ages. In this second collection Julian Yu has commissioned a staggeringly diverse cornucopia of stylistic arrangements. Michael Kieran Harvey tackles scores from the frivolous to the frenetic, the fragile to the fragrant, the popular to the profound.
Continental Drift
Continental Drift features compositions for two bass flutes and cello. As the Earth’s continents drift across the ocean floor, new music makes its own slow migration around the globe, across time and space into various lands and cultures.
Rhythms of Green and Gold
John Martin’s solo piano recital gathers nineteen short works by ten Australian composers, from ragtime and blues to waltz and jazz-tinged lyricism.
Repose
Beautiful lullabies and cradle songs by Australian composers from 1890–1999. Soprano Linda Thompson and pianist Deviani Segal present world premiere recordings drawn from a century of Australian cradle song.