“Moreover, the lyrical episodes that are scattered throughout… are pure gold, shot through with tenderness and grace.”
Joshua Kosman
San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 2017
San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 2017
“Constant variation yet constant repetition flows forward in ecstatic yet mournful phrases that are at once deeply romantic yet unsentimental.”
Jay Derderian
I Care If You Listen, September 21, 2017
I Care If You Listen, September 21, 2017
“Music from ‘A Story Within a Story’ by Gregory Wanamaker, a composer whose music I have admired before…is evocative and often quite lovely.”
Ronald E. Grames
Fanfare Magazine, Issue 41:2 (Nov/Dec 2017)
Fanfare Magazine, Issue 41:2 (Nov/Dec 2017)
“Gregory Wanamaker’s ‘Elegy’...is an achingly beautiful work, with harmonic tensions resolving like a high Renaissance motet.”
Ken Keaton
Palm Beach Daily News, March 17, 2015
Palm Beach Daily News, March 17, 2015
“On the quieter side, ‘Three Episodes’ by Greg Wanamaker has a playful, jazzy feel to it that I admired, as do a lot of Wanamaker’s works...”
Daniel Coombs
Audiophile Audition, February 20, 2014
Audiophile Audition, February 20, 2014
“...Greg will be remembered as a very important contributor to our repertoire someday, and I’m proud to be his friend and one of his champions.”
Timothy McAllister
Sax on the Run, Fanfare Magazine, 34:2 Nov/Dec 2010
Sax on the Run, Fanfare Magazine, 34:2 Nov/Dec 2010
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Hope – Sovrana is ne’ sembianti – In Memoriam
December 8, 2020
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Every year around this time, I post this movement from Laude! that I composed with my brilliant friend and collaborator Garth Bardsley, whose words remind me

Little Big Horn and the premiere of Monologue
December 5, 2020
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I am honored to be a part of Arno Bornkamp’s multimedia recital Little Big Horn about the baritone saxophone, which premieres at the PleinTheater in

Web Premiere of A Village Funeral in the time of COVID-19
September 15, 2020
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Join Garth Bardsley and me for the Web Premiere on YouTube of A Village Funeral in the time of COVID-19 on Sunday, September 20, 2020
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