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Charles Greenberg began his
professional
composing career in 1975, writing music for an adaptation of
Augustin Daily’s, Under the Gaslight. In 1976, he made his
Off-Broadway debut at Circle Repertory, musical directing and
writing incidental music for the original production of A.R.
Gurney's
Who Killed Richard Cory?
He is the composer of Little Kit -- a family
opera – that was developed through the Eugene O'Neil Foundation
in collaboration with librettist, Barbara Zinn Krieger, and
subsequently produced by The Vineyard Theatre and Tribeca
Performing Arts Center (1997 & 1999). Little Kit is available from the
world-renowned
music publisher,
Boosey and Hawkes.
Other original scores include a musical adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's
A Month in the Country, and many instrumental
chamber works for unusual ensembles.
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His theatre
music has been produced at Vineyard Theatre, Circle Repertory,
Westbeth Theatre, Symphony Space, the Lincoln Center Summer Festival
and the Emelin Theatre in Westchester. Film and video work
includes scores for The United Hospital Fund, the indie film,
Love Is Hard and Maynard Clarke
Productions.
As a pianist,
he has performed on WNYC and lectured on early American popular
piano music, playing works by L.M. Gottschalk, S. Joplin and
Jelly Roll Morton.
Mr. Greenberg is probably best known in New
Jersey for his 25 year association with the Hunterdon Hills
Playhouse in Perryville, NJ, where he has arranged, musical
directed and programmed dozens of original music reviews of
popular American music including turn-of-the-century, jazz, rock
and funk. He also helped develop the Hunterdon Hills Playhouse
Orchestra, which has recorded several
CDs of his musical
arrangements.
A piano
student of the late, great Jan Gorbaty, Mr. Greenberg holds an
MA in music composition from the Aaron Copland School of Music
formerly the music department of Queens College, where he
studied privately with George Perle. He is a member
of ASCAP, where he has participated in the ASCAP Theatre
Workshop.
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