Greg Bartholomew

Greg Bartholomew, b. 1957, received degrees from the College of William & Mary in Virginia and the University of Washington. He has participated in composition workshops, seminars and symposia with Krzysztof Penderecki, George Crumb, Bob Chilcott, Steven Sametz, Robert Kyr, R. Murray Schafer, Tan Dun, Gregg Smith, Hummie Mann and Brent Michael Davids. Bartholomew received ASCAP Awards in 2003 and 2004 for the recent performances of his music.

Bartholomew's choral works have been premiered by the Oregon Repertory Singers, the Ars Brunensis Chorus, The Esoterics, the William & Mary Choir, and the American University Chamber Singers. His choral music has also received performances by Seattle Pro Musica under the direction of Karen P. Thomas, and the Briar Cliff University Chamber Singers under the direction of Dr. Mark Simmons, as well as readings by the Gregg Smith Singers at the Adirondack Festival of American Music and by the Princeton Singers at the Oxford Summer Institutes at Lehigh.

Bartholomew's "String Trio for George Crumb," commissioned by the Oregon Bach Festival Composer's Symposium in celebration of George Crumb's 75th birthday, was premiered by Third Angle on July 3, 2004. His instrumental work "The Far North Land: Passages for violas in six parts" was selected for performance at the 30th International Viola Congress in June 2002. A version of the same work for string quartet was premiered by the odeonquartet at Seattle's Town Hall on October 21, 2003. That concert also featured the premiere of Bartholomew's "Suite for Razumov (Act One)" for clarinet and string quartet.

Bartholomew is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the Seattle Composers Alliance, the Washington Composers Forum, the American Composers Forum, the Society of Composers, Inc., the American Music Center, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He has sung since 1991 with Seattle Pro Musica, an award-winning critically-acclaimed choral ensemble under the direction of Karen P. Thomas.

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