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The American harpsichordist, organist and conductor, Jeffrey Grossman, holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Harvard College (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) (2000-2004); a Masters of Music in conducting from Carnegie Mellon University (2004-2006), where he studied with Grammy-award winning conductor Robert Page; and a Masters of Music in historical performance from The Juilliard School (2009-2011), where he studied with harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss. His teachers include Robert Page and Jameson Marvin in conducting; Louis Nagel in piano; Kenneth Weiss, Don O. Franklin, and Barbara Weiss in harpsichord; Mutsumi Moteki in coaching; and Riccardo Schulz in recording. He has performed in master-classes of Harry Bicket, William Christie, Nicholas McGegan, Emma Kirkby, Jakob Lindberg, Fabio Biondi, Rachel Podger, Christopher Hogwood, Lisa Goode Crawford, Peter Sykes, Jacques Ogg, Edward Parmentier, Webb Wiggins, Robert Mealy (as harpsichordist); Thomas Hampson, Wolfram Rieger, Helen Donath, Thomas Enman, Golda Vainberg-Tatz, Lynn Rice-See (as pianist); and Kirk Trevor, Johannes Schlaefli, Mariusz Smolij, Rodney Eichenberger, Mathis Dulack, Kate Tamarkin, Peter Jaffe, Donald Portnoy, Paul Vermel (as conductor).
Jeffrey Grossman is a freelance harpsichordist, continuo organist, conductor, and coach based in New York City. He specializes in vital, engaging performances of music of the past, through processes that are intensely collaborative and historically informed. His extensive instrumental repertoire includes music from six centuries for the piano, fortepiano, harpsichord, and organ, and his work as a conductor encompasses everything from Josquin des Prez to Marvin Hamlisch. He is the Artistic Director of the acclaimed Baroque ensemble The Sebastians (since September 2010). He is currently on the faculty of Yale University (since September 2018), where is a Lecturer in Early Music, teaching performance practice and coaching students in the graduate voice program in Early Music, Oratorio, and Chamber Ensemble.
As a harpsichordist or conductor, Jeffrey Grossman has performed with TENET Vocal Artists (Director: Jolle Greenleaf), Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Quodlibet Ensemble, The Bach Players of Holy Trinity, The Sebastians, La Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico, PHOENIXtail, Fire and Folly, Chamber Music Northwest, Callisto Ascending, Juilliard Baroque, Juilliard415, New York Baroque Incorporated (Director: Wen Yang), Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Wall Street, Daniel Hope, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum (July 2007-June 2008), Harvard Glee Club, ARTEK (Director: Gwendolyn Toth), Chatham Baroque, Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Berkshire Choral Festival (since May 2009), Springfield Symphony, Seraphic Fire, Spire Chamber Ensemble, Weckmann Project, Musica Nuova, and many other ensembles.
As a pianist, Jeffrey Grossman has been affiliated since 2005 with the Piatigorsky Foundation, performing more than 180 outreach concerts in 15 states to help bring live classical music to underserved communities across the USA. He was a faculty accompanist for the Berkshire Choral Festival, working with conductors Dale Warland, Philip Brunelle, Simon Carrington, Jane Glover, Heinz Ferlesch, Grant Gershon, Julian Wachner, Robert Page, Kent Tritle, Craig Hella Johnson, and Murry Sidlin. Grossman previously co-founded and served as Artistic Director of the Cambridge Early Music Project, a Boston-based organization that presented numerous concerts, highlights of which include include Heinrich Schütz’ Musikalische Exequien and J.S. Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227) and Magnificat (BWV 243).
Jeffrey Grossman is also active as a recording artist. His first solo piano CD, "Cosmic Light" (music for piano by Keith Barnard), was released on the Metier Arts label, and Carson Cooman’s "Nantucket Dreaming", on which he performs solo and in a trio, was released on Naxos. Previously, he released two recordings devoted to contemporary American composers: New Dawn, with soprano Amanda Forsythe, of Carson Cooman’s vocal works and piano solos (on Albany Records); and the chamber music of Leland Smith with vioinist and violist Sarah Darling (on the Naxos label). "The Welcome News: Choral Music of Carson Cooman" is his first commercial release as a conductor.
He has also released two solo CD's as part of a personal project that seeks to explore connections among diverse styles of keyboard music from all eras and on numerous modern and historical keyboard instruments. The first CD in this project, "There and Back", released in September 2006, includes music by fourteen composers from four continents and four centuries. "Reunion/Retrouvailles", the next disc in the series, was released in March 2007. It represents an even wider range of musical styles and composers, from W.A. Mozart to Wuorinen, including several world premiere recordings and newly commissioned works.
In addition to his work as a performing and recording artist, Jeffrey Grossman is active (since December 2006) as a musical engraver using the SCORE music publishing system, which permits an unsurpassed level of professionalism and polish, in addition to the more commonly-used Sibelius, Finale, and Dorico notation software. Since December 2005, he is Co-director of Overtone Audio, Classical audio editing and mastering; and Head Engraver at Zimbel Press (since December 2006). Works he has engraved have been performed by organizations from the Metropolian Opera and Boston Symphony Orchestra and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to faculty-conducted groups at Harvard University and the orchestra of the Longy International Baroque Music Festival. Grossman also works as a classical recording editor and mastering artist. His work has been released on labels including Naxos, Gothic Records, Zimbel Records, and Albany Records. He currently lives in New York City, New York. |
