Edward Green, Ph.D.

Website: Edward Green—Composer, Music Educator

Dr. Green has been on the faculty of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation since 1980. Awarded his doctorate by New York University in 2008, he is a prize-winning composer whose music has been performed by orchestras across the United States as well as in several countries overseas—including Russia, the Czech Republic, Argentina and England. He received first place in the International Kodaly Composers Competition for his Brass Quintet and a Delius award for his Genesis Variations. In 2004 he was awarded a Music Alive! grant jointly sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra League and Meet the Composer.

Since 1984, he has been a professor at Manhattan School of Music, teaching courses in Ethnomusicology, Jazz History, Composition, and the Humanities.  He is included in Who’s Who among America’s Teachers and in the International Who’s Who in Music—both in their Classical and Popular volumes.

Prior to Manhattan School of Music, he taught at St. John’s University, Pace University, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and the School of Visual Arts. He is currently completing a Doctorate in Historical Musicology at New York University.      

Prof. Green has been a guest composer and lecturer at Tanglewood, the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), the University of Montreal, Baltimore's Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute, Ithaca College, Dartmouth University and other important educational institutions.  In 2003, he gave a Convocation Address at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, and in 2004 participated in the First International Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, held at the University of Graz, Austria.  His presentation, co-authored with anthropologist Arnold Perey, was entitled “Aesthetic Realism: A New Foundation for Interdisciplinary Musicology.”  The conference was sponsored by the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music.

In 1991 under the sponsorship of the Smithsonian Institution Prof. Green addressed the International Association of Jazz Educators' convention in Washington, DC on the subject "The Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel Explains the Beauty of Jazz and of Duke Ellington."  He was a panelist discussing “Innovative Teaching Methods” for the November, 2004 Annual Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology, held in Tucson, where he spoke about the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method.

Prof. Green has also addressed conventions of the American Society of University Composers, the American Musicology Society (Greater New York Chapter), the New York School Music Teachers Association, and recently gave a talk on the music of Richard Rodgers at the 28^th annual Comparative Drama Conference, sponsored by Ohio State.

He is scheduled to give a talk on the relation of Burney, Hawkins and Rousseau at the “First Conference of the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale.” The conference, to be held in March, 2005 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is titled Music’s Intellectual History

Edward Green has participated in seminars at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation since the mid-1980’s, and among his talks have been papers on the lives and music of Johannes Brahms, Franz Joseph Haydn, Glenn Gould, Irving Berlin, John Lennon, Hector Berlioz, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Herbert von Karajan and Felix Mendelssohn. Several of these papers are posted on his website:  http://www.edgreenmusic.org

Articles on music by Edward Green from the Aesthetic Realism point-of-view have appeared in Composer (England), Music from China, The Journal of Music and Meaning (Denmark/Internet), and School Music News, among other academic journals.

Articles by him dealing with ethics of current social matters, including the fight to end racism, have appeared in newpapers and journals here and abroad, including Black College Magazine, The African Observer, and Christian Social Action. For several years he was a featured columnist for the Nigerian journal U.S. African Eye. He is also a contributor to the book Aesthetic Realism and the Answer to Racism. (Orange Angle Press:2004)

Edward Green’s music is published by Frederick Harris Ltd. (Canada) and Frank Warren Music Service (MA). Recordings of his music have appeared on Tintangel Records, and VP Media of Italy, and in 2005 further recordings will appear on Centaur Records, Arizona University Recordings, and Albany Records.

 Mr. Green, as pianist, frequently performs with flutist Barbara Allen in concert at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.  He has also composed incidental music for several productions of the Aesthetic Realism Theater Company. Among his current musical positions are those of Organist-Choir Director at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Jersey City, Composer-in-Residence of the InterSchools Orchestras of New York., and Staff Composer at Imagery Films where he has collaborated with the Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Ken Kimmelman on several films, including What Does a Person Deserve? and the soon-to-be-released “Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana”—a film based on Eli Siegel’s Nation prize-winning poem.   

 Edward Green (PhD, New York University) studied with Eli Siegel from 1974 to 1978, and continues his study of Aesthetic Realism in classes taught by Ellen Reiss. He is married to Carrie Wilson, singer, actress, and Aesthetic Realism Consultant, and they make their home in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.