Education
BM/BM Ed., Memorial University of Newfoundland
MM, Piano Performance, USC
DMA, Piano Performance/Choral Music USC

Contact
Office: AU 217-D
Email: pgreen@glendale.edu
Phone: 5622

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.