From The Peopling of New York City
Jennifer Griffith: A Little Bio...
Currently Griffith is collaborating with librettist Estela Eaton on a neo-buffa about backstage opera. The work is inspired in part from her experience with the American Opera Projects-sponsored 'Composer & the Voice' workshops in 2004. Her pocket opera Dream President was presented in New York City Opera’s VOX 2004 and again at the National Opera/Opera Index/Manhattan School of Music’s Opera Theater presentations in 2005. In 2007, Griffith was awarded a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony; she is also finishing a doctorate degree in composition at the CUNY Graduate Center where she has studied with David Del Tredici and Tania León. Her disseratation is on the works of Charles Mingus that explore his debt to New Orleans jazz. She earned a masters degree in composition at Smith College and has also studied piano and performed in the U.S. and abroad. She occasionally sings jazz at NYC venues. Her bestiary “A Little Beastliness for Guitar” can be heard on Oren Fader’s cd First Flight. jennifergriffith
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