A native New Yorker, Charles Griffin’s works have been regularly performed throughout the U.S. as well as Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Canada, Europe and Asia in such venues as Merkin and Weill Recital Halls in NYC and Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center and the SpoletoUSA, Aspen, and International Cervantino Festivals. He has received grants from ASCAP, Meet the Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA, Queens Council on the Arts and New Dramatists, and commissions from Ethos Percussion Group, the Piedmont Choirs, and the Dale Warland Singers, among others. His work has been included on several Compact Discs and has regularly been aired on radio stations such as WNYC and WQXR in New York, WGBH in Boston and WHPK in Chicago.
His several residencies have included Faith Partners (an interfaith residency in New York City funded by the Wolfensohn Family Foundation involving Temple Emanu-el, St. Bartholomew’s Church and St. Ignatius-Loyola, where he composed four choral works for the three institutions), another choral residency at the Frank Sinatra High School for the Arts, and during the summers 2004 and 2006 at the International Festival for Young Latvian Musicians, in Ogre, Latvia.
He earned his B. A. in voice and composition and M. A. in composition from Queens College, City University of New York, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is a member of ASCAP, former Director of the New York Chapter of the American Composers Forum, and on the board of directors of the Long Island Composers Alliance. He has served on the adjunct faculties of Hofstra University, Columbia University’s Teacher’s College and Nassau Community College.
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