ABOUT MONTEVERDE MUSIC

MonteVerde Music is the North American importer and distributor for P. Mauriat Saxophones.

MonteVerde Music was founded by Roger Greenberg, Professor of Saxophone, Emeritus at the University of Northern Colorado where he taught saxophone for 24 years.

Roger Greenberg and MonteVerde Music are proud to be associated with P. Mauriat Saxophones, a company where making the best saxophone possible is its priority. They are accomplishing this to rave reviews at a surprisingly affordable price.

P. Mauriat Saxophones are made in Taiwan with French brass and other imported materials. MonteVerde Music is located in Greeley, Colorado where we maintain our offices and warehouse.

ROGER GREENBERG

After receiving degrees from the Juilliard School and the University of Southern California, Roger Greenberg went on to a varied musical career.

He has performed many times with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (formerly the Denver Symphony Orchestra), also with the Aspen Festival Orchestra, the National Repertory Orchestra, the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rochester (NY) Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sacramento Symphony Orchestra, the Rochester (Minnesota) Symphony Orchestra, the Austin Symphony Orchestra and many others. Many of these performances have been under some of the world's great conductors, including Zubin Mehta, Andre Previn, Michael Tilson Thomas, Philippe Entremont, Luciano Berio, Leonard Slatkin, Yuri Temirkanov, Sixten Ehrling, Sergiu Comissiona and James DePriest.

Roger Greenberg was a member of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the CBS-TV Orchestra in Philadelphia, the Los Angeles Saxophone Quartet and, during military service with the West Point Band, he was a member of the West Point Saxophone Quartet. For ten years he performed for television and motion pictures at Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Brothers studios in Los Angeles under such composers as John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and Lalo Schifrin. He was a member of the Harvey Pittel Saxophone Quartet for almost 30 years.

He has recorded a solo CD, “Roger Greenberg Live in Asia”, and a solo CD of music by William Schmidt, "The Art of the Tenor Saxophone," is available on WIM Records. With nineteen nationally, or internationally distributed recordings to his credit, he can also be heard with the Harvey Pittel Saxophone Quartet, the Los Angeles Saxophone Quartet, the Westwood Wind Quintet, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Denver Symphony Orchestra and the Saxophone Orchestra of Thailand.

A classical saxophonist with a jazz background, his activities have ranged from co-leader of the Juilliard Jazz Ensemble to nightclub performer for many famous entertainers. He has been a soloist several times at the World Saxophone Congress in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan, and continues to be active internationally as a soloist and clinician, having performed professionally in 46 states, Mexico and Canada. He has also performed as a soloist in Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, China and Peru.

Publications include a book on musicianship, arrangements, transcriptions, articles and music reviews.