Greg Simon

Composer | Jazz Trumpeter | Educator
gregsimonmusic.com
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253-677-7326

Awards and Honors

2021 First Prize, Zodiac International Music Competition
2020 Second Prize, Moscow Conservatory New Classics Competition Contemporary Popular Music Division
2018 Winner Phantom Brass International Call for Scores
2018 Artist Residency Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
2016 First Prize National Association of Composers/USA (NACUSA) Young Composers Competition
2013-14 Young Composer-in-Residence Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings
2013 Second Prize Austin Peay State University Young Composers’ Competition 2013 Winner, TorQ Percussion Seminar Composition Competition
2013 Winner The Esoterics POLYPHONOS Composers’ Composition Competition 2013 Winner, University of Michigan Brehm Prize in Choral Composition
2013 Resident Composer Mizzou International Composers’ Festival

Commissions

2021 We Interrupt This Transmission for vibraphone and electronics Andy Smith, University of Texas at El Paso
2021 Shocked Quartz for violin, clarinet, piano Zodiac Trio
2021 Here, There Are Voices for MIDI-controlled guitar installation Charley Friedman, visual artist
2019 That One Place Around the Corner for saxophone sextet The Moanin’ Frogs, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Dreaming Stories for mixed chamber ensemble TellTale, Chicago, IL
2017 On Walls for alto saxophone and piano Eddie Goodman, University of Arizona
2017 Lighthouse Fanfares No. 2 for brass quintet Lighthouse Brass, University of Michigan/Grand Valley State University

Performances/Exhibitions of Works

2022
- Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
- Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan Everson Art Museum, Syracuse, NY
- University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2021
- NAC Resume
- Zodiac Trio, New York, NY
- University of Utah, Salt Lake City, WI
- Trace Contemporary Ensemble, Lincoln, NE
- Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
- Showa University of Music, Asao-ku, Kawasaki, Kanazawa Prefecture, Japan
2020
- NAC Resume
- Moscow Conservatory Studio for New Music, Moscow, Russia Aura Contemporary Ensemble, Houston, TX
- Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
- Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, NE
- Ju Percussion Group, Taipei, Taiwan
- BRN Duo, Lake Charles, LA
- The Moanin’ Frogs, Los Angeles, CA
- Featured on “Classical Discoveries” from WPRB Princeton
2019
- NAC Resume
- Midwest Clinic, Chicago, IL
- Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Indianapolis, IN UNL Symphony Orchestra, Norfolk, NE and Lincoln, NE
- Trio Volant, Manchester, UK
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Indiana University Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
- Kairos Trio, Cedar Falls, IA

Recordings

2021 Fanfare, Nocturne, Fanfare; Greg Simon Septet Fanfare, Nocturne, Fanfare, Records DK 3150176
2021 The Way Through the Woods; Steven Siegel, trumpet Between Islands, digital release
2019 Blood on the Curb; Kris Carlisle, piano, American Evolution: The Silence Between, 4Tay Records CD 4054
2018 Two Orchids; Kellan Toohey, clarinet; Scenes From Home, MSR Classics MS1656
2017 Step Inside; Rogue Two;
Step Inside: New American Music for Saxophone & Percussion, Equilibrium Records EQ146

Recent Compositions

2022 We Interrupt this Transmission for vibraphone and electronics.— 8’
2021 Shocked Quartz for violin, clarinet, and piano — 8’
2021 Here, There Are Voices for MIDI-controlled guitar installation (in collaboration with visual artist Charley Friedman) — 14’
2021 Fanfare, Nocturne, Fanfare for jazz septet with electronics — 18’ 2021 One Last Light for jazz septet — 8’
2021 Never Better for jazz septet — 10’
2020 NAC Resume
2020 Luchín (after Victor) for jazz quartet and string quartet — 8’
2020 A Short Fantasy on ‘El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido’ for solo performer and electronics — 4’
2020 Reconciliation for fixed-audio electronics — 4’
2019 Quartet for live electronic playback — 5’
2019 Snake Oil for percussion septet — 6’
2019 Parque Araucano for jazz setptet — 6’
2019 That One Place Around the Corner for saxophone sextet — 7’
2019 Dreaming Stories for mixed chamber ensemble — 12’
2019 Promise Me You Won’t Believe A Single Word for orchestra — 19’
2018 Step Inside for flute and percussion — 8’
2018 Nebraska Songbook, Vol. 1 for soprano and piano — 16’
2018 Draw Me the Sun for percussion orchestra — 8’
2018 Desert for fixed-audio electronics — 5’
2017 On Walls for saxophone and piano — 20’
2017 Lighthouse Fanfares No. 2 for brass quintet — 6’
2017 Dead Cowboys: Pray for Rain for fixed-audio electronics — 6’
2016 Atacameños for solo violin — 20’

Education

2015 D.M.A. Composition — University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2010 M.M. Composition — University of Colorado, Boulder
2007 B.A. Music — University of Puget Sound

Teaching

2016-present University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Assistant/Associate Professor of Composition and Jazz Studies
2015-present Brevard Music Institute, Brevard, NC, Artist-Faculty

Professional Memberships

American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)
American Composers Forum
International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers
Society of Composers, Inc. (Region VI Co-Chair and Jazz Composition Award coordinator)