Brief Biography

The music of award-winning American composer Greg Bartholomew is frequently performed across the United States and in Canada, Europe and Australia. NPR classical music reviewer Tom Manoff called Bartholomew "a fine composer not afraid of accessibility."

Born in 1957, Bartholomew studied trombone at John Muir Elementary School and piano at Cornish College of the Arts before earning degrees from the College of William & Mary in Virginia and the University of Washington. He sang with Seattle Pro Musica for more than fifteen years and studied violin with Teo Benson and trumpet with Gabriel Palmer and Judson Scott.

Winner of the 2013 Cheryl A. Spector Prize (for Summer Suite), the 2012 Spector Prize (for the First Suite from Razumov), the Silver Platter Repertoire Award (for The Tree), and First Place in the 2006 Orpheus Music Composition Competition (for Beneath the Apple Tree), Bartholomew was also awarded the Masterworks Prize from ERM Media in 2005 and 2006. A two-time Finalist for the American Prize in Choral Composition (2012 and 2013), Bartholomew was the 2012/2013 Composer in Residence for the Cascadian Chorale.

Commercially available recordings of his works include:

• Summer Suite recorded by James Ackley and the Palmetto Camerata
• Sunlight on Quaking Aspen recorded by Iwona Glinka
• The Tree recorded by The Esoterics
• The String Trio for George Crumb recorded by the Langroise Trio
• Rollick & Romp recorded by cellist Suzanne Mueller
• Beneath the Apple Tree recorded by Kim Trolier and Ovidiu Marinescu
• On the Ground Where We Live recorded by the Czech Philharmonic
• The First Suite from Razumov recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic
• The 21st Century (A Girl Born in Afghanistan) recorded by Connecticut Choral Artists (CONCORA)
• From the Odes of Solomon recorded by the Ars Brunensis Chorus

Sheet music for Bartholomew's works is available from Art of Sound Music, Ars Nova Press, Imagine Music Publishing, Orpheus Music, J.W.Pepper and Sheet Music Plus.

Bartholomew has received support from Meet the Composer and the American Music Center, as well as annual ASCAP Standard Awards since 2003. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.