“Christopher Greco is a creative force that infuses his music with virtuosity and vitality. It’s always a joy to experience his art.”
American award-winning composer, performer (saxophone, clarinet, flute) 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 music, concert hall, electronic music, and jazz-based music.
He draws from the music traditions of the past and the present within the worlds of the traditional classical repertoire, 20-21st century music, jazz, and non-western music.
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.”
He experienced broad and mixed musical settings in his hometown of Los Angeles, working in diverse genres: western classical music, jazz-based music, American popular, and electronic music.
He studied clarinet and saxophone with Douglas Masek (V. Abato, R. Marcellus), William Green (M. Lurie), William Calkins (C. 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.
Publications appear in Saxophone Journal (U.S.), Saxophone Today (U.S.), Clarinet & Saxophone Society of Great Britain (U.K.), and doctoral paper, A Study: An Interpretation and Analysis of a Late Twentieth Century Work for Saxophone and Piano: Steven Stucky’s Notturno is published by Akademiker Verlag, 2008.
Dr. Greco served on the music faculty at Pepperdine University, UCLA, and University of Maryland. He is a full professor of music at Benedictine College and teaches: coordinator music theory, coordinator music composition, studio woodwinds, chamber music, seminar in composition, orchestration, counterpoint, and History of Jazz (summer online).
Endorsing Artist
Degrees
M.A., Music Composition
B.A., Music