Greitzer-Manasse, Pamela

She is a cellist and teacher born into a musical family where her father is the violist and conductor Sol Greitzer, her mother is the pianist Shirley Greitzer and her sisters are the bassoonist Deborah Greitzer-Silberschlag and the flutist Judy Schwartz. She is also the wife of the clarinettist Jon Manasse.

In 1986 The Greitzer Ensemble, which is a family group, performed a concert at Merkin Concert Hall in New York which included the premiere of Paul Chihara’s “Scene de Ballet”.

In 1991 she gave the premiere performance of “Amid Fleeting Pockets of Billowing Radiance” by Jeffrey Mumford in St. Mary’s College in Maryland and in 1995 she performed on the recording The Italian Voyage by the Maryland Bach Aria Group.

In 2009 at the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival and in 2012 she and her husband both performed there.

She has also performed as a member of the New York Pops and the Stamford Symphony Orchestra.

In the studio she has performed on recordings that include On the Edge of Porpoise Bay by Paul Miller and the soundtracks of The Good Shepherd and Perfect Stranger.

In the field of musical education she has been a member of the faculty of the School of Strings.

Here is “Edward’s Secret” from The Good Shepherd soundtrack which Pamela performs on…

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