Kent/Blossom Music

HERBERT GREENBERG was born in Philadelphia where his teachers included Jascha Brodsky and Ivan Galamian. Further studies at Indiana University with Josef Gingold led to a Performers Certificate.  Mr. Greenberg has been a member of the Minnesota Orchestra, associate concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony and from 1981 to 2001 served as concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.  Mr. Greenberg has collaborated with many of the world’s leading conductors including Steinberg, Previn, Slatkin, Levi, Comissiona, Silverstein, Herbig, Vonk, Zukerman and Zinman.  Mr. Greenberg has concertized throughout North America, Europe and Asia.  He has toured with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra of Denmark and has led the New Arts Ensemble of Taipei as violinist/conductor. Mr. Greenberg was the first American invited to serve as the concertmaster for the Japan Virtuoso Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble consisting of concertmaster and first chair players from Japan.  He has also been a guest concertmaster of the Oregon, Houston, St. Louis and Bergen Symphony Orchestras.  He has collaborated in chamber music with a wide variety of artists which include Frager, Gingold, Kalichstein, Laredo, Ma, Primrose, Silverstein and Zukerman.  Mr. Greenberg participates in many of the nation’s leading music festivals and seminars.  Currently he is affiliated with the New York String Seminar, Kent/Blossom Music (alumnus ’68), and the Aspen Music Festival where he is concertmaster of the Festival Orchestra.  Mr. Greenberg performed the Berg Violin Concerto in Aspen in 2003 with the Aspen Academy Orchestra and the Walton Sonata for Violin and Piano with pianist Ann Schein.  Together they recorded the Walton Sonata for Delos.  He is a member of the violin faculty at the Peabody Conservatory where many of his former students occupy positions in major symphony orchestras throughout the world.  Mr. Greenberg has recorded for Telarc, Argo, and Delos and plays the Jean Becker Stradivarius, dated 1685.