Chris Greco is a composer/performer that is bent by many influences: American jazz, non-western music, American pop and classical music traditions. He’s a virtuoso that is not afraid to occasionally break the mold.
— H. Allen Williams
 
 

American award-winning composer, performer (flute, clarinet, saxophone) and professor of music Christopher Greco has followed a path in music of discovery and accumulation. He has composed and performed a broad and diverse range of music: chamber, concert hall, electronic, contemporary, and jazz-based music.

He draws from the music traditions of the past and the present within the worlds of 20-21st century music, jazz, non-western, and the classical repertoire.

He studied composition and several woodwind instruments in Los Angeles, and his compositions and performances have been characterized as “luxuriant,” “ephemeral,” “modern,” “exhilarating,” “exploratory,” and “impeccable.”

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He experienced broad and mixed musical settings in his hometown of Los Angeles, working comfortably in diverse genres: western classical music, jazz-based music, American popular, and electronic music.

He studied clarinet and saxophone with Douglas Masek (Abato, Marcellus), William Green (Lurie), William Calkins (Leeson) and Dominic Mumolo, flute with Gretel Shanley and Diane Alancraig, oboe with William Green, composition with Aurelio de la Vega and John Kennedy, and music theory with Aurelio de la Vega and Daniel Kessner.

Dr. Greco is a full professor of music at Benedictine College and teaches: coordinator music theory, coordinator music composition, studio applied woodwinds, chamber music, seminar in composition, orchestration, counterpoint, and History of Jazz (summer online).

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