Education
BM/BM Ed., Memorial University of Newfoundland
MM, Piano Performance, USC
DMA, Piano Performance/Choral Music USC
Chair, Visual & Performing Arts Division
Born in Newfoundland, Canada, Dr. Green came to Los Angeles to study at USC. An active
piano recitalist, adjudicator and choral conductor.
Dr. Green currently serves as Chair of the Visual & Performing Arts Division at Glendale College, Glendale, California, where he oversees ten Departments, including
Music, Theatre, Dance, Studio Arts, Ceramics, Art History, Photography, Digital Animation, Media Arts, Graphic Design. Dr. Green is also director of the GCC Concert Singers. In addition to his duties at the College, Dr. Green is Director of Music and organist
at First Presbyterian Church, Monrovia, California. Dr. Green is on the board of directors of CAPMT (California Association of Professional Music Teachers), NACM (National Association of Church Musicians), and the Mark Thallander Foundation.
Personal interests: Fishing, gardening, Macintosh computers, dirtbikes, and spending
time at the cabin in the mountains.
About Dr. Peter J. Green
Dr. Peter Green was born in Newfoundland, Canada's most easterly province. He received his Master
of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees with full scholarship from the University
of Southern California under the direction of Stewart Gordon, where he also served
as Assistant Lecturer of Piano. In July 1989, he received first prize in the national
piano competition of the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers Associations in Edmonton,
Alberta.
Dr. Green currently serves as Chair of the Visual & Performing Arts Division at Glendale
College. Dr. Green is also director of the Glendale College Concert Singers. In addition
to his duties at the College, Dr. Green is Director of Music at San Marino Community
Church, California. Dr. Green is on the board of directors of NACM (National Association
of Church Musicians), Glendale Arts, and the Mark Thallander Foundation.
Dr. Green has recorded a CD of music for piano, horn, and flute, released in May 2008,
that was nominated for a Grammy Award. Just recently Dr. Green recorded a piano/organ
CD with organist Mark Thallander that was released in Spring, 2017. He was asked to
conduct the Mark Thallander Foundation Chorus at the International Haydn Festival
in Vienna, Austria in July 2009 and was conductor of the Mark Thallander Foundation
Chorus in Maui, Hawaii in April, 2016.
Dr. Green is also a frequent recitalist, adjudicator, and clinician in both piano
and choral music throughout Canada and & the USA. Dr. Green was the featured soloist
on the Beethoven 4th piano concerto in August 2017 with the Los Angeles International
Conducting Institute. Dr. Green also directed the Glendale College Concert Singers
at a performance with Los Angeles based Filipino dance group, Kayamanan Ng Lahi, in
September 2017 at the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood.
