Jeffrey Grogan is the ebullient education and community engagement conductor at the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra as well as artistic director of -inspired programs in Newark and Paterson, N.J. He said this initiative was the brainchild of the development and education staffs: “In many respects,...
Throughout December, we are highlighting each of the organizations featured in our Jersey Give-Back Guide, which is a website designed to help you learn about some of New Jersey’s most effective nonprofits as you are thinking about making your year-end donations. On Day 7 of the...
Youth Symphony, the premiere orchestra of New Jersey Youth Symphony, will perform at Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, on Sunday, Feb. 24, at 8:30 p.m. The orchestra under the direction of artistic director Jeffrey Grogan, will perform movements from The Planets by Gustav Holst. The concert, “Instrumental...
Jeff Grogan, Conductor of the Greater Newark Youth Orchestra conducts a class of 4th-6th graders at the University Heights Charter School who have been playing violin after school for only 4 weeks, during a rehearsal at the school. The pilot program with the NJSO culminates...
Below, watch University Heights Charter School students perform a brief selection under the guidance of Daniel Martinho, a teaching artist in the NJSO pilot program. At the end, they tacked on their own cheer, which says better than any words how they feel about the...
NEWARK — The second-floor library of University Heights Charter School in Newark had been transformed into a concert hall, with 25 violinists arranged in three sections and grouped around music stands in the same way they would appear on a stage. Standing in front, conductor Jeffrey...
One of the best things about my family’s long Thanksgiving holiday weekend was attending the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s (NJSO) Family Concert at NJPAC. I had never been to a NJSO concert before and I was impressed from the moment the musicians began. The orchestra is...
Jeffrey Grogan raises a tight fist and his biceps bulge. His face reddens as teenage string players unfurl a rapid descending scale, and then a chorus of winds and brasses fills a classroom on the Rutgers Newark campus. “If you rush,” Grogan sighs and pauses dramatically,...
Boulder Resident Performs Scriabin Concerto in New York By Michael Sherwin NEW YORK – On March 27, in its New York Concerti Sinfonietta “Shining Star Series” at the Church of St. Joseph in Greenwich Village, “Julie Jordan Presents” introduced additional winners of its 2011 International Piano Concerto...
Jeffrey Grogan, conductor of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, performed a special concert at Cicely Tyson Community School on Thursday, November 17th, at 1100 AM. The concert was free to all members of the East Orange community, and special invitations were given to music classes...
