Greg Amerind
Artistic Assistant/Neighborhood Program Manager

Greg Amerind has been performing since the age of five studying piano, trumpet, and voice throughout his school years, eventually majoring in music and theater arts at UCLA, Cal State University, Northridge and Arizona State University, where he received his Bachelor of Music, Choral Education degree.

A professional singer and songwriter for many years in Los Angeles, his career includes stops in Musical Theater with lead roles in Applause, The Pajama Game, Promises, Promises, Guys & Dolls and The Baker's Wife, to name a few. Greg also performed extensively in nightclubs and concert venues, most notably with Pacific Jazz & Electric, a vocal ensemble he co-founded and for which he wrote and arranged much of the material. A sought-after studio singer, he was often called upon to record demos for LA songwriters as well as for commercial, TV and Radio, and industrial projects.

Greg was a featured soloist with Lionel Hampton and his big band, and has performed with entertainers such as Ann Jillian, John Astin, and Patrick Duffy in various projects, as well as appearing briefly in the film "The Jazz Singer" with Neil Diamond.

Relocating to Arizona in 1997, Greg has been active as principal soloist, composer/arranger, and director of the SGI-USA Arizona Cactus Chorus, a lay Buddhist community group devoted to the cause of world peace through music and cultural exchange. In 2002, he had the honor of conducting a 300-voice interfaith choir singing ”We Are One" at Phoenix's Chase Field Ballpark in commemoration of the September 11 attacks on America.

Late Boomer is his first solo CD release and is currently on sale. His next CD, Leap of Faith is in progress and scheduled for release later this year. His catalogue includes dozens of choral and jazz vocal ensemble arrangements as well as over 150 songs in the genres of classical, pop, jazz, rock, R & B, and show tunes. In 2003, he completed and published his most ambitious composition to date, Goddessongs a choral work based on the Celtic traditional holidays.

Greg has been a private voice instructor since 1982 and is currently working on his Master of Music Degree in Composition and Choral Education at Arizona State University. His personal website is www.gregoryamerind.com.