Bang on a Can

Judd Greenstein was born and raised in Greenwich Village in New York City. He began writing composition by writing hip hop beats as a teenager. He has received degrees from Williams College, the Yale School of Music, and has been a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and the Bang on a Can Summer Institute, and was chosen as an Emerging Composer in last season’s ZOOM: Composers Close Up Series at Merkin Hall. Recent awards and commissions include a Charles Ives Scholarship from New York Youth Symphony and a Morton Gould Young Composer Award from the ASCAP Foundation. He is currently working on commissions from Present Music, percussionist Sam Solomon, soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird, and the REWIND orchestra project. Judd is Artistic Director of NOW Ensemble, co-Director of Free Speech Zone Productions, Founder of New Amsterdam Records, and a doctoral Fellow in Composition and Taplin Scholar at Princeton University.