Gregory Fritze Recordings

Gregory Fritze is a prize-winning composer, Fulbright Scholar and performer. His compositions have been performed more than one thousand times in twenty-six countries. He has written over one-hundred compositions for orchestra, band, chamber ensembles
and soloists. He has won over sixty composition awards both nationally and internationally, including Menzione d’Onore (highest award given) of the Mario Bernardo Angelo-Comneno International Music Competition by the Accademia Angelica Costantiniana Arti E Scienze (Rome, Italy) for “String Quartet” 1996 and others.

He has traveled to Spain approximately sixty times since 1993. His Fulbright project was the research and documentation of compositions for wind instruments by Spanish composers, which he has continued and has given many lectures fostering Spanish music throughout the
world. He recently retired from Berklee College of Music where he was Professor and Chair of the Composition department, serving on the faculty for 36 years. He was Principal Tubist with the Rhode Island Philharmonic for 33 years.He received his undergraduate degree in
Composition from the Boston Conservatory and received his Masters degree in Composition with Distinction from Indiana University.

He has forty compositions commercially recorded on Albany Records, MSR Classics, Crystal Records, Mark Records and others. He has been a guest lecturer, conductor and performer at many colleges, universities and music festivals in the United States, Canada, Japan, South America and Europe. Greg was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1954 and now resides in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida.