MADISON GREENSTONE
Madison Greenstone is a clarinetist, writer, and composer based in Brooklyn. Their solo practice, exstatic resonances, explores phenomenological, material, and spatial expressivities of sound through richly noisy timbral actions.
Madison performs across the US and internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. As a soloist, they have been presented through Blank Forms, eavesdropping festival (Cafe Oto), LAMPO, KM28 (Berlin), the Vigeland Mausoleum (Oslo), Night of Surprise (Cologne), ISSUE Project Room (NYC), and the Merce Cunningham Centennial Night of 100 Solos (Los Angeles). As a chamber and orchestral musician they have performed at the New York Philharmonic, PS21, KKL Luzern, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Bangkok Arts and Cultural Center, The Whitney Biennial, Roulette Intermedium, Indexical, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and Miller Theater. They have held residencies at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, and University of Chicago. Madison performs as member of Ryan Sawyer’s Shaker Ensemble, Nate Wooley’s Mutual Aid Music, Contemporaneous, and as a guest with Alarm Will Sound, Argento, Nunc New Music, Either/Or, Splinter Reeds, Wet Ink, Metropolis Ensemble, and International Contemporary Ensemble among others.
Madison’s writing on experimental music has been published through LAMPO publications, Greyfade FOLIO, the Museum of Natural History Neuchâtel (CH), Contemporary Music Review, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (K-Verlag), and in Blank Forms’ 10th and final anthology Alien Roots: Éliane Radigue. Alien Roots contains Madison’s translations from French of archival interviews, reviews, letters, press releases, and installation sketches, all appearing in English for the first time.
Trained in contemporary classical performance, they have learned greatly from the mentorship of Anthony Burr and Charles Curtis at UC San Diego. They studied with Jon Manasse at the Eastman School of Music, and pursued periodic studies with Swiss clarinetist Ernesto Molinari between 2012 and 2018.
For more information, visit madison-greenstone.com
