His leadership was subtle yet engaged, and he charted a sure course through Praetorius’ highly intricate settings, particularly the extended and involved ‘Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ.’
Tim Sawyier, Chicago Classical Review, full review
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Keyboardist and conductor Jeffrey Grossman specializes in vital, engaging performances of music of the past, through processes that are intensely collaborative and historically informed. As the artistic director of the acclaimed baroque ensemble the Sebastians, in recent seasons Jeffrey has directed Bach’s Passions and Mass in B minor and Handel’s Messiah from the keyboard, and he is a frequent guest director and performer with Tenet Vocal Artists, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and numerous other ensembles across the country. Recent seasons include his conducting operas of Haydn and Handel with Juilliard Opera, leading Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with the Green Mountain Project in New York and Venice, and conducting a workshop of a new Vivaldi pastiche opera for the Metropolitan Opera. As musical director for the 2025, 2023, and 2019 Boston Early Music Festival Young Artists Training Program, he conducted Jacquet de La Guerre’s Cephale et Procris, Handel’s Orlando, and Handel’s Agrippina from the harpsichord. For thirteen seasons, he toured portions of the rural United States with artists of the Piatigorsky Foundation, performing outreach concerts to underserved communities. Jeffrey can be heard on the Avie, Gothic, Naxos, Albany, Soundspells, Métier, and MSR Classics record labels. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he holds degrees from Harvard College, the Juilliard School, and Carnegie Mellon University; he has taught at Yale University and Juilliard. He is the creator of the specialist iOS tuning app Fine Tuna.
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Keyboardist and conductor Jeffrey Grossman specializes in vital, engaging performances of music of the past, through processes that are intensely collaborative and historically informed. He is the artistic director of the period instrument ensemble the Sebastians and a frequent guest music director and performer with Tenet Vocal Artists, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and other ensembles. His recent work includes Bach, Handel, and Monteverdi with the Sebastians, Tenet, Juilliard415, and the Boston Early Music Festival Young Artists Training Program. He has taught at Yale, Juilliard, Bard, and the Yale Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and appears on recordings from the Métier, Naxos, Gothic, Avie, and Soundspells labels.
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Jeffrey Grossman (email) is a freelance harpsichordist, continuo organist, conductor, coach, and recording artist based in New York City. He specializes in vital, engaging performances of music of the past through processes that are intensely collaborative and historically informed. His extensive instrumental repertoire spans six centuries of music for piano, fortepiano, harpsichord, and organ, while his conducting work ranges from Josquin des Prez to Marvin Hamlisch.
Grossman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Harvard College (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa); a Master of Music in conducting from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied with Grammy Award–winning conductor Robert Page; and a Master of Music in historical performance from the Juilliard School, where he studied harpsichord with Kenneth Weiss. He also studied at Middlebury College and completed German and Italian immersion programs. His other teachers include Jameson Marvin in conducting; Don O. Franklin in harpsichord; Mutsumi Moteki in coaching; Louis Nagel in piano; and Riccardo Schulz in recording technology.
A native of Detroit, Michigan, Grossman has been the artistic director of the acclaimed period-instrument ensemble the Sebastians since 2013. He has developed the ensemble from a small group into a nationally recognized organization presenting self-produced seasons, touring engagements, recordings, and collaborations with major vocal and instrumental organizations. His work with the Sebastians includes season planning, repertoire selection, rehearsal planning, musician contracting, concert production, grant writing, publicity, and touring logistics. Musical highlights include Bach’s Mass in B minor, the six Brandenburg Concertos, Handel’s Messiah with Tenet Vocal Artists, and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion with Tenet.
Since 2014, Grossman has served frequently as a guest music director with Tenet Vocal Artists. His work with Tenet has included Bach’s Magnificat and Easter Oratorio, Sound the Trumpet: Music of Purcell, the motets of J. S. Bach, Handel’s Messiah, Michael Praetorius programs, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with the Green Mountain Project in New York and Venice, Bach’s Mass in B minor, and Meditations for Lent from the French Baroque. In 2023, he was guest music director for the Newberry Consort’s Singen und Sagen: Music for Hope in a Time of War.
Other conducting and music-direction engagements have included a Metropolitan Opera workshop of The Seasons: Music by Vivaldi; Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos at the Traverse City Brandenburg Festival; a charity performance of Bach’s Mass in B minor with Impromptu Bach; Through Bach’s Lens with the Minnesota Bach Ensemble; productions of Schütz’s Christmas Story with Musica Nuova and the Weckmann Project; Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas; Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea; Purcell’s The Fairy Queen; Monteverdi’s Ulysses; and recordings and performances with Cambridge Consonance and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum.
Grossman has been part of the Boston Early Music Festival Young Artists Training Program since 2017, first as répétiteur and subsequently as musical director. He has conducted Handel’s Orlando, Jacquet de La Guerre’s Céphale et Procris, and Handel’s Agrippina from the harpsichord, with another appointment anticipated in 2027. At Juilliard, he has served as music director for Handel’s Agrippina and Haydn’s L’infedeltà delusa, guest director for the Juilliard415 recording project Italians at the Opera: Overtures & Sinfonias, and preparation conductor for Nicholas McGegan’s production of Handel’s Rinaldo. He also directed a Juilliard415 alumni orchestra at the Misiones de Chiquitos International Baroque and Renaissance Music Festival in Bolivia, representing the United States for the U.S. Embassy. Since 2026, he has continued working with historical performance graduate students at Juilliard.
From 2018 through 2025, Grossman was a lecturer in music at Yale University’s School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, where he developed and taught courses in performance practice and early-music vocal repertoire and coached graduate singers in early music, oratorio, and chamber music. Since 2024, he has served as faculty accompanist and lecturer in performance practice for the Yale Norfolk Chamber Music Festival’s Chamber Choir and Choral Conducting Workshop. He was also an adjunct instructor in harpsichord at Bard University from 2018 through 2020. His additional teaching has included private instruction in harpsichord, early-music vocal coaching, and lectures and masterclasses at Florida Gulf Coast University, Georgia State University, Harmony at Home, and Close Encounters with Music.
As a harpsichordist, organist, and continuo keyboardist, Grossman has performed with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra since 2013, including performances of the Brandenburg Concertos, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Handel’s Messiah, and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with Joshua Bell at Bravo! Vail. His other recent performance work includes Tafelmusik’s Passions Revealed tour; Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at Washington National Cathedral; featured appearances with Opera Lafayette in Concert Spirituel aux Caraïbes; performances with the New Jersey Symphony, Chamber Music Northwest, Juilliard Baroque, Il Complesso Barocco with Joyce DiDonato, and the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier; and work with Ars Antiqua, Baroque Music Montana, and the Yale Voxtet. The calendar also includes his forthcoming performance of Biber’s Mystery Sonatas with Baroque Music Montana on portative organ.
His other ensemble affiliations include A Far Cry, Quodlibet Ensemble, the Bach Players of Holy Trinity, La Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico, PHOENIXtail, Fire & Folly, Callisto Ascending, New York Baroque Incorporated, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Daniel Hope, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the Harvard Glee Club, ARTEK, Chatham Baroque, the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, the Berkshire Choral Festival, the Springfield Symphony, Seraphic Fire, Spire Chamber Ensemble, the Weckmann Project, Musica Nuova, Cantata Profana, and the Four Nations Ensemble, among many others.
For thirteen seasons, Grossman toured the United States as a pianist with the Piatigorsky Foundation, performing more than 185 outreach concerts in 19 states with artists including sopranos Katharine Dain, Dana Vachharajani, and Raquela Sheeran, and cellist Evan Drachman. He was also a faculty accompanist for the Berkshire Choral Festival, working with conductors including Dale Warland, Philip Brunelle, Simon Carrington, Jane Glover, Heinz Ferlesch, Grant Gershon, Robert Page, Kent Tritle, Craig Hella Johnson, and Murry Sidlin. He previously co-founded and served as artistic director of the Cambridge Early Music Project.
Grossman is also active as a recording artist. His discography includes Vespro della Beata Vergine with the Green Mountain Project and Tenet; Folia and The Sebastians a 2: Virtuoso Music of the Holy Roman Empire; The 12 Seasons with the Salomé Chamber Orchestra; Tenet’s The Secret Lover; Night Scenes from the Ospedale; Corelli: Concerti Grossi with Quodlibet Ensemble; Songs of Lightness and Angels; Rising at Dawn: Chamber Music with Brass by Carson Cooman; Carson Cooman: A Trip to the Sky; Nantucket Dreaming; Piano and Chamber Music of Leland Smith; New Dawn: Song Cycles & Piano Music of Carson Cooman; Reunion/Retrouvailles; and There and Back. His first solo piano recording, Cosmic Light: Music for Piano by Keith Barnard, was released on the Métier label, and The Welcome News: Choral Music of Carson Cooman was his first commercial release as a conductor. A further Sebastians recording, The Art of the Violino Piccolo, is forthcoming.
In addition to his performing and recording work, Grossman is a musical engraver working with SCORE, Dorico, Sibelius, and Finale. His projects have ranged from small choral works and the fourth edition of the Harvard Hymn Book to full symphonic works. His clients have included Boosey & Hawkes, C. F. Peters, Alfred Publishing, the Metropolitan Opera—including scores and parts for The Enchanted Island—and Zimbel Press. In 2014, he received first prize in the Music Publishers Association’s Paul Revere Award for Graphic Excellence for his engraving of Elliott Carter’s Epigrams. He also works as a classical recording editor and mastering artist using Sequoia. Grossman is the creator of the specialist iOS tuning app Fine Tuna.