Clay Greenberg, conductor and baritone

Clay Greenberg has appeared as a conductor with Alarm Will Sound, The FLUX Quartet, The Amp Ensemble, Anti-Social Music, Ossia, Eastman Musica Nova, Eastman Philharmonia, and the Eastman Chamber Orchestra in dozens of concerts ranging from Beethoven to Richard Strauss to Ligeti to David Lang. He has worked directly with composers including Steve Reich, Michael Gordon, Charles Wourinen, Helmut Lachenmann, John Zorn, George Crumb, and John Adams, and has been the resident conductor for the International Festival of Contemporary Music in Morelia, Mexico and the first conducting fellow of the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival. Also a master performer/teacher of classical Indonesian gamelan, he is Vail Artist-in-Residence at Denison University and has served on the faculties of Cornell University and the Eastman School of Music. As a singer, percussionist, and producer, he has recorded for the Nonesuch and Canteloupe labels. He will be a featured soloist on an upcoming recording of Michael Gordon’s Van Gogh Project, to be released on Cantaloupe Records winter 2007.