Dr. Rebekah Griffin Greene (b. 1974)
Double bass, Piano, Composition, Music Education
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Education/Certification
Master Classes with Edgar Meyer (accompanied Mr. Meyer on the piano during one class), Patrick Neher, David
Walter , John Feeney, Rob Nairn, Paul Ellison, Francois Rabbath, Jeremy Kurtz, Mark Helias, Nicholas Walker,
Motomi Igarashi, John Clayton, Mark Dresser ,Peter Askim, David Neubert, Nancy Griffin, Peter Mercurio
Studied composition with Peter Lewis, Erica Muhl, Morten Lauridsen, Frederick Lesemann, Frank Ticheli, lesson with
Thea Musgrave in 1995
Jazz Studies
Studies with: Dan Faulk, Ray Anderson, Stan Poplin, Gary Stotz, Rob Klevan, Biff Smith
Played with/for: Rufus Reid (bass), Derrick Gardener (trumpet), Dan Faulk (sax), Ray Anderson (trombone), Biff Smith
(piano), Eddie Mendenhall (piano), Michael Lydon (guitar/vocals), Isaac Lausell (guitar), Martin Loyato (trumpet),
Ricardo Gallo (piano), Nick Walker (bass), Claire Daly (bari sax), Curtis Folks (trombone), Grisha Alexiev (drums),
Diana Herold (vibraphone), Terry Greene II (trombone), Gabriel Shuford (piano), Chris Wong (piano), Mike Shannon
(drums), Hubert Eaves (piano), Melvin Holder (sax), Melvin Smith (sax), Daisy Shumake-Taylor (percussion), Bill
Stevens (piano), Ben Aldridge (sax), Eric Mrozkowski (drums), Ryan Rowles (trumpet), Kim Burrell (vocals)
Big Band Performances: Monterey Jazz Festival, Santa Cruz Jazz Festival, Ku'umbwa Center , Sea World in San
Diego, Reno Jazz Festival, Stony Brook Jazz Festival
Combo Work: Reno Jazz Festival (2nd place combo in 1990), freelance in Los Angeles, SUNY Stony Brook Combos,
Four Wheel Drive (jazz quartet), freelance in New York City, cellist/upright bassist for Christian Cultural Center Band
(2004-2009), Rob Robinson, director, cellist/bassist for Leon Lacey (since 2008)
Concerto Performances
Awards won in Performance Competitions
Orchestral Experience
New York Repertory Orchestra David Liebowitz 2004, 2010
One World Symphony Sung Jin Hong 2008
Astoria Symphony Silas Huff 2008-2011
Manhattan Symfonia Chamber Players Dmitry Yablonsky 2008
Metro Chamber Orchestra Philip Nuzzo 2009-2010
Orchestra of the Bronx/Bronx Opera Michael Spierman 2010
New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra Guerguan Tsenov 2010
Canadian Chamber Orchestra of NYC Justin Bischof 2010
Musica Da Camara Roselin Pabon 2010
Julie Jordan Presents Paul Hostetter 2011
Musical theater pit orchestra work
Other performance experience
Teaching Experience
--taught Beginning Jazz Improvisation (2010), Composition, Musicianship (2011) and
Orchestration (2011)
--organized and MC'd the student Open Mics
--premiered over 40 new works on bass and cello written by the Walden student body
--sang Soprano 1/2 and Alto in the Walden Choir and Chamber Singers
choral, beginning jazz history and improvisation (6th grade), world music (7th grade) and western
music history (8th grade), formation of the Geneva School Choir (after school choir), concert
preparation
• 1999-2000: Full-time traveling instrumental teacher at 5 schools in East
Los Angeles and Huntington Park, CA (ten instruments taught, formation of
Latin-drumming ensemble)
• 1997-1999: General/Instrumental music teacher at Rowan Avenue School, East Los Angeles
Double bass, Piano, Composition, Music Education
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Education/Certification
- Bachelor of Music: Double Bass Performance, University of Southern California, 1997
- Bachelor of Music: Composition, University of Southern California, 1999
- Master of Music Education (M.M.E.), University of Southern California, 2000
- California Professional Clear CLAD (Culture, Language and Development) Music
- Master of Music: Double Bass Performance, SUNY Stony Brook, 2002
- NYCDOE Conditional License: Teacher of Orchestral Music in Day Schools, 2002
- Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) in Double Bass Performance: SUNY Stony Brook, 2011
- Studied bass with Paul Ellison, Dennis Trembly, Francois Rabbath, Joseph Carver, Nico Abondolo,
Master Classes with Edgar Meyer (accompanied Mr. Meyer on the piano during one class), Patrick Neher, David
Walter , John Feeney, Rob Nairn, Paul Ellison, Francois Rabbath, Jeremy Kurtz, Mark Helias, Nicholas Walker,
Motomi Igarashi, John Clayton, Mark Dresser ,Peter Askim, David Neubert, Nancy Griffin, Peter Mercurio
Studied composition with Peter Lewis, Erica Muhl, Morten Lauridsen, Frederick Lesemann, Frank Ticheli, lesson with
Thea Musgrave in 1995
Jazz Studies
Studies with: Dan Faulk, Ray Anderson, Stan Poplin, Gary Stotz, Rob Klevan, Biff Smith
Played with/for: Rufus Reid (bass), Derrick Gardener (trumpet), Dan Faulk (sax), Ray Anderson (trombone), Biff Smith
(piano), Eddie Mendenhall (piano), Michael Lydon (guitar/vocals), Isaac Lausell (guitar), Martin Loyato (trumpet),
Ricardo Gallo (piano), Nick Walker (bass), Claire Daly (bari sax), Curtis Folks (trombone), Grisha Alexiev (drums),
Diana Herold (vibraphone), Terry Greene II (trombone), Gabriel Shuford (piano), Chris Wong (piano), Mike Shannon
(drums), Hubert Eaves (piano), Melvin Holder (sax), Melvin Smith (sax), Daisy Shumake-Taylor (percussion), Bill
Stevens (piano), Ben Aldridge (sax), Eric Mrozkowski (drums), Ryan Rowles (trumpet), Kim Burrell (vocals)
Big Band Performances: Monterey Jazz Festival, Santa Cruz Jazz Festival, Ku'umbwa Center , Sea World in San
Diego, Reno Jazz Festival, Stony Brook Jazz Festival
Combo Work: Reno Jazz Festival (2nd place combo in 1990), freelance in Los Angeles, SUNY Stony Brook Combos,
Four Wheel Drive (jazz quartet), freelance in New York City, cellist/upright bassist for Christian Cultural Center Band
(2004-2009), Rob Robinson, director, cellist/bassist for Leon Lacey (since 2008)
Concerto Performances
- 1987, piano, Haydn D-Major Concerto, Third Movement, Monterey County Youth Orchestra, Vince Gomez,
conductor - 1991, bass, Dragonetti Concerto in G major, first movement, Monterey County Youth Orchestra, Vince Gomez,
conductor - 1991, bass, Dittersdorf Concerto in D major, 2nd movement, Robert Louis Stevenson School Orchestra, Robert
Klevan, conductor - 1995, bass, "La Jeune Fille", tone poem for bass and orchestra by Rebekah Griffin Greene, San Luis Obispo
Symphony, Michael Nowak, conductor *Premiere* - 1998, bass, "La Jeune Fille", members of the USC Thornton Symphony, Phillip Placenti, conductor
Awards won in Performance Competitions
- 1985, piano, Music Teachers' Association of California, Monterey County Branch Scholarship Auditions, first
place - 1986, bass, same as above, first place
- 1987, piano, same as above, first place
- 1988, cello, same as above, third place
- 1990, piano, same as above, third place
- 1991,piano, same as above, first place
- 1995, bass, First place Winner, Alice Nelson Music Competition, San Luis Obispo, CA, resulting in the premiere
of “La Jeune Fille” for bass and orchestra, Michael Nowak, conductor - 1995, bass, Honorable Mention, Music Academy of the West Concerto Competition
Orchestral Experience
New York Repertory Orchestra David Liebowitz 2004, 2010
One World Symphony Sung Jin Hong 2008
Astoria Symphony Silas Huff 2008-2011
Manhattan Symfonia Chamber Players Dmitry Yablonsky 2008
Metro Chamber Orchestra Philip Nuzzo 2009-2010
Orchestra of the Bronx/Bronx Opera Michael Spierman 2010
New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra Guerguan Tsenov 2010
Canadian Chamber Orchestra of NYC Justin Bischof 2010
Musica Da Camara Roselin Pabon 2010
Julie Jordan Presents Paul Hostetter 2011
Musical theater pit orchestra work
- 1986-1991, bassist for Forest Theater summer musicals: Pipe Dream, Brigadoon, Annie Get Your Gun,
Showboat, Fiddler on the Roof, Kiss Me Kate, - 1989-1992, bassist for Robert Louis Stevenson School productions: Bye-Bye Birdie, Anything Goes, Into the
Woods, Grease - 2001, cellist for Southampton High School production of Carousel
Other performance experience
- Cellist in Robert Louis Stevenson School String Quartet
- French Horn player in the RLS Brass quintet
- Alto singer in the RLS and USC choirs, as well as in the Joyful Tidings Caroling Company, founded
- by Janice Griffin (1984-2004)
- Actor: "Madame Arcati" in RLS's production of "Blithe Spirit", fall 1991
Teaching Experience
- September 2010-present: Double Bass Faculty at the Lucy Moses School
- Summer 2010, 2011: Faculty member at the Walden School Young Musicians' Program
--taught Beginning Jazz Improvisation (2010), Composition, Musicianship (2011) and
Orchestration (2011)
--organized and MC'd the student Open Mics
--premiered over 40 new works on bass and cello written by the Walden student body
--sang Soprano 1/2 and Alto in the Walden Choir and Chamber Singers
- 2009-present: Private and group bass at Frank Sinatra School of the Arts
- 2000-Present: Faculty at the Third Street Music School Settlement (www.thirdstreetmusicschool.org)
- 2003-2006: General/Choral Music teacher at the Geneva School of Manhattan
choral, beginning jazz history and improvisation (6th grade), world music (7th grade) and western
music history (8th grade), formation of the Geneva School Choir (after school choir), concert
preparation
- 2002-2003: General/Choral Music teacher at P.S. 45, South Ozone Park, NYC
- 2001 (fall): Bass faculty at the Ross School in Easthampton, NY
- 2000-2001: String teacher at Southampton Elementary School, Southampton, NY
- 1997-2000: Music teacher for Los Angeles Unified School District
• 1999-2000: Full-time traveling instrumental teacher at 5 schools in East
Los Angeles and Huntington Park, CA (ten instruments taught, formation of
Latin-drumming ensemble)
• 1997-1999: General/Instrumental music teacher at Rowan Avenue School, East Los Angeles
- Summers 1999 and 2001: Faculty at the Walden School, Dublin, NH
- Summer 1996: General music/gospel choir leader for K-6 in Jackson, MS at the JAM
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