Greg Grispart
Multi-instrumentalist competent at playing many genres of music.
About Me
Greg Grispart is a multi-instrumentalist
musician with accomplished skills as a
performer in a wide range of genres. Early
on, Greg earned his Bachelor’s Degree in
Music Education and Classical Clarinet
Performance from Mason Gross School of
the Arts, Rutgers University. While
attending Rutgers he was a member of the
Grammy Nominated Rutgers Wind
Ensemble under the direction of Dr.
William Berz and can be heard on 5 of their
CDs. In 2005 Greg performed with them at
the CBNDA National Conference held at
New York University and also presented a
concert at Carnegie Hall later that spring.
Greg also has had the privilege of
performing in the Rutgers University
Orchestra, the Rutgers Philharmonia, the
Rutgers Symphony Band as well as the
Rutgers Jazz Ensemble Too.
Greg has gone on to play as a side man
with such notable groups and performers
as The Duprees, Lou Christie, The Skyliners,
Sonny Geraci, The Four Lads, The Four Aces,
Lenny Welch, Little Anthony, Chuck Berry,
Gerry Lee Lewis, BJ Thomas, Shirley Alston
Reeves, Bruce Springsteen, The Jazz
Lobsters Big Band, The National Wind
Ensemble under the direction of H. Robert
Reynolds, The Brookdale Big Band, Danny
V’s 52nd Street Billy Joel Tribute Band, The
Garden State Symphonic Band, The New
Jersey Pops, The Metropolitan Woodwind
Ensemble, Gary Mazzaroppi, Chris Pinnella,
Greg Gisbert, Steve Turre, Larry McKenna,
David Glasser among many others.
Greg has performed in such venues as the
New Jersey Performing Arts Center, The
Izod Center, Carnegie Hall, The Museum of
Natural History, The Hammerstein Ball
Room, Trumpets Jazz Club, Chris’s Jazz Club
in Philadelphia, the Count Basie Theater,
House of Blues at Show Boat of Atlantic
City, Westbury Music Fair, Keswick Theater,
Patchogue Theater, Bethel Woods Center
for the Arts, The Bickford Theater, The
Grand Opera House of Wilmington and The
Lyric Opera House of Baltimore just to
name a few.
Greg’s teachers include Dr. Maureen Hurd,
Vadim Lando and Ayako Oshima for
classical clarinet, David Krakauer for
klezmer clarinet, Gerry Cappuccio and Larry
McKenna for jazz studies and music theory
as well as Marion Evans for composing and
arranging. He has also completed a
Master’s Degree in Jazz Studies and
Performance at The Maynard Ferguson
Institute of Jazz, Rowan University studying
with Denis DiBlasio.
In addition to being an avid performer Greg
is currently an elementary school band
director for the Middletown Board of
Education in Middletown, NJ as well as a
former adjunct professor at Kean University
having taught clarinet and saxophone.
My Jazz Story
I was first exposed to jazz by my grandfather when I was 5 years old. I had gotten a small drum set for Christmas and when he came over he showed me how to play a swing beat on the ride cymbal. Every time I went to my grandparents’ house he would have me listen to jazz records of Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Coltrane and much more!
