Composer EDWARD GREEN been appointed concert artist composer-in-residence at Kean Conservatory of Music (Union. N.J.). A Fulbright Scholar specialist in American music, he is the fifth composer and the first native-born American to hold the post. A concert entitled “Ars Longa,” featuring music by Green and all four of Kean’s previous composers-in-residence, will take place at the conservatory’s Enlow Recital Hall on April 12. Since 1984 Green has been a professor at Manhattan School of Music, where he teaches both composition and music history. In addition to his compositional output, which includes a trumpet concerto, a concerto for alto sax and strings, and a piano concertino, Green is author of China and the West: the Birth of a New Music and the soon-to-be published Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington.
Posted March 27, 2012
