Robert Greenberg

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Robert Greenberg (1954–), is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1954. He has composed more than 45 works for a variety of instruments and voices, and has recorded a number of lecture series on music history and music appreciation for the The Teaching Company, receiving critical and popular acclaim.

Greenberg earned a B.A. in music, magna cum laude, from Princeton University and received a Ph.D. in music composition, from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on the faculties of UC Berkeley, California State University at Hayward, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he was chairman of the Department of Music History and Literature and Director of the Adult Extension Division. Dr. Greenberg is currently Music Historian-in-residence with San Francisco Performances.

Dr. Greenberg has received numerous awards, including three Nicola De Lorenzo Prize in composition, and three Meet the Composer grants. He has received commissions from the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress, the Alexander String Quartet, XTET, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.

A number of his works have been performed across the globe in destinations such as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and The Netherlands. His music is published by Fallen Leaf Press and CPP/Belwin and is recorded on the Innova label.

Greenberg has lectured for some of the most prestigious musical and arts organizations in the United States, and is the resident composer and music historian to National Public Radio’s “Weekend All Things Considered”.

Dr. Greenberg has recorded a number of lecture series for The Teaching Company on music history and the appreciation of music. His lectures have been praised for being organized, spontaneous, and encyclopedic in scope. He often relates the musical topics to other areas such as history, politics as well as to other music from different periods. Referring to Greenberg's lively style and sense of humor, The Bangor Daily News has described him as "the Elvis of music history and appreciation." For those who are interested in listening or seeing Dr. Greenberg give lectures on a variety of aspects of music, The Teaching Company currently offers 22 lecture series for sale on their website. These include: