Joni Greene composer

Joni Greenes music is described as rich, colorful, and expressive. Her music is regularly performed throughout the United States and Canada and has received a number of international premieres. Her diverse catalog includes works for band, choir, orchestra, chamber ensemble, and chamber opera. Recent and notable awarded prizes include the 2nd and 3rd Frank Ticheli competition, ASCAP/Lotte Lehman “Damien Top” Prize, and the ACC Band Directors Association Emerging Artist Grant. Her work, The Moon Glistens, will be released on the 2016 Kansas University Wind Ensemble recording by Klavier Music Productions.

Ms. Greene is frequently performed and commissioned by consortiums, universities, school districts and chamber ensembles. Notable and upcoming commissions include works for opera and wind ensemble, soprano voice and chamber ensemble, concert band, and a harp concerto. Featured festival performances include the 2016 International Tuba Euphonium Conference, the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles conference in Taiwan, the Las Americas en Concierto/Composers in New York, the Albert Roussel International Festival in France, Essentially Choral Reading Sessions, and the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) Conference.

Analyses of Ms. Greene’s music for wind band may be found in the School Band and Orchestra (SBO) magazine and Manhattan Beach Times issues 5-7. Additionally, conductor Chad Simons recently published a dissertation on the topic of Ms. Greene’s life and music.

Ms. Greene holds MM and BM degrees from Indiana University. Her training also includes instruction abroad and at master-classes across the country. Principle instructors include: Michael Gandolfi, Sven-David Sandstrom, Kevin Puts, Don Freund, David Dzubay, Claude Baker, and Rafael Hernandez.

When she is not composing, Ms. Greene enjoys working in residence with all levels of concert band, orchestra, choir and chamber groups. She currently resides in Austin, Texas with her husband and six-year-old son.