New Music Premieres

This Season’s Featured Composer: Jon Jeffrey Grier

About Jon Jeffrey Grier

Jon Jeffrey Grier holds a D.M.A. in Composition from the University of South Carolina and was Instructor of Music Theory and Composer in Residence at the Greenville Fine Arts Center, a magnet high school of the arts, from 1988 to 2019. He was the winner of the 2021 Tallā Rouge International Composer Competition, awarded the 2016 South Carolina Arts Commission Fellowship in Music Composition, the 2016 Composer Commission from the South Carolina Music Teachers Association, the 2014 Carl Blair Award for Excellence in Arts Education from the Metropolitan Arts Council, and the winner of the 2009 Rapido! Composition Contest sponsored by the Atlanta Chamber Players. In retirement from teaching Jon continues as a prolific composer of chamber music, songs, and jazz. Jon has also played in various jazz and fusion ensembles in Greenville, where he lives with wife Marion and Carolina dingo Roxanne.

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Hear us performing Jon Jeffrey Grier’s work, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox, on August 6, 2022 (see concert schedule).

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About New Music Premieres

New Music Premieres is a project where we promote contemporary classical music. Great art illuminates the time in which it was written. While the most popular classical music was composed long ago, there are many great works being written today. Every year Anchorage Chamber Music Festival chooses a contemporary work to be performed at one of the festival concerts.

Compositions premiered:

Kenji Bunch: String Circle
Vladimir Scolnic: Tensions…Wonder
R. Michael Daugherty: “Quem Genuit Maria”
Nathan Prillaman: Funk
Phillip Sink: Selections from Leave a Comment
Douglas Hofstadter: Good People All and Little Prelude in e min
Karalyn Schubring: Ignite
Frank Stemper: Good Night Moon