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Griffith moves between creative efforts as composer and jazz vocalist. She composes “a wonderful tapestry of musical passion and humor,” says Mark Greenfest of The New Music Connoisseur. Recent commissions include In E, for mixed ensemble at the 2008 Festival Non Sequitur and The Reed, a chamber oratorio, commissioned by the Grace and Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn. Performances include her pocket opera Dream President (2008) and an excerpt from The X-Dresser in an evening of Opera After Hours, directed by Christopher Alden; the Quintet of the Americas (Woodwind Quintet), and Women’s Work: New York Women Composers (her songs, Trails and Convalescence). Griffith has written chamber works for Newspeak, Glass Farm, and Cygnus ensembles and her electroacoustic work Calling G.B. has been featured on 60x60-Dance concerts. Dream President was also presented at New York City Opera’s Showcasing American Composers in 2004, and again in an expanded version at the Manhattan School of Music’s Opera Theater opera previews in 2005. Griffith has been awarded the MacDowell Colony fellowship, and recently earned a doctorate degree in composition at the CUNY Graduate Center. She studied composition with Tomas Svoboda, Donald Wheelock, Thea Musgrave, David Del Tredici and Tania León. She sings jazz at NYC venues and is featured vocalist on saxophonist Steve Elson’s CD, Mott and Broome. Griffith’s electroacoustic work for The Tempest Project (“Who is Miranda?”) is forthcoming on Pogus records.
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