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. Having performed over 45 concerti from the Baroque to present day American composers such as Adams and Rouse, Mr. Greenberg has collaborated with many of the world's leading conductors including Steinberg, Previn, Slatkin, Levi, Comissiona, silverstein, Herbig, Vonk, Zukerman and Zinman. Many of his performances have been broadcast on NPR, and he was featured in Strauss's Ein Heldenleben on National television for the opening concert at Meyerhoff Hall in Baltimore. 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 Taipai 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 concertmasters and first chair players from Japan. He has also been a guest concertmaster of the Oregon, Houston, St. Louis and Bergen Symphony Orchestras. In Pittsburgh he was a founding member of the Previn-Greenberg-Williams Trio and in Baltimore, a founding member of the Baltimore String Quartet. 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, the Blossom Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival where he is concertmaster of the Festival Orchestra. Last summer at Aspen Mr. Greenberg performed the Berg Violin Concerto 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. This summer Mr. Greenberg will be performing as soloist at a special concert at the Blossom Music Festival honoring Louis Lane, former resident conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra and founding associate director of the Blossom Music Festival. Mr. Greenberg participated as a student at the first Blossom Festival in 1968. 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.
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