Wendy Griffiths has composed chamber works, piano pieces, art songs, rock songs, orchestral works, choral works, and dance scores. Her concert music has been featured in the Composer’s Concordance series, at the Merce Cunningham Studio, the Manhattan School of Music, the Yale-Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Encounters (dance) series, the Storm King Music Festival, and Music Under Construction (of which she is a founding member). It has also been performed in Stockholm by the Acidophilus Ensemble, in New York by the Parhelion Trio, and in Washington, D.C., by the Washington Master Chorale.

Her opera “The Quiet American” was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, and she has received grants from Meet the Composer, NYSCA, and the American Music Center. Recent commissions include a dance score for Beth Soll and Co. and a sextet for the Double Entendre Double Reed Ensemble. She has collaborated with numerous choreographers, including Carolyn Lord, Linda Siefert, Stormy Brandenberger, and Alison Cook Beatty.

Her concert music can be heard on Albany Records on “American Reed,” performed by the Double Entendre Double Reed Ensemble. Views from the Keyboard, a collection of Ms. Griffiths’ piano works, was recently released on Arabesque Records. As a performer, Griffiths appears with her band Changing Modes, with whom she has recorded ten full-length CDs, all available through Arabesque Records.

A lifelong dancer herself, Ms. Griffiths also works as a ballet accompanist for the Joffrey Ballet School and Ballet Academy East. More information about Ms. Griffiths’ music can be found at wendygriffithsmusic.com.