Composer. Pianist. Improviser.

Gregg Kallor "Kallor is one of the rare artists who successfully straddles the divide between jazz improvisers and classical interpreters." -The New Orleans Times-Picayune
In March 2007, the Abby Whiteside Foundation presented Gregg Kallor's New York concert debut in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. The performance featured the world premiere of Kallor's acclaimed song-cycles Exhilaration and Yeats Songs, sung by mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala, and a rich program of solo works that showcased Kallor's versatility and his fresh approach to the piano recital. Harris Goldsmith wrote: "It took but a few impeccably shaped phrases to make it plain that Kallor is a formidably well-trained technician and a master of stylish proportion as well... This superb recital debut truly established a new, important voice in our musical annals."

Kallor's most recent Carnegie Hall concert, in April 2011, featured the world premiere of his nine-movement suite for solo piano, A Single Noon - a musical tableau of New York life told through a combination of composed music and improvisation. Five-time Grammy nominee Fred Hersch calls A Single Noon "the work of an extraordinary pianist, a composer of great distinction and a true conceptualist... This ambitious and unique suite takes us somewhere that is very deeply heartfelt and dazzingly executed. This is 21st-century music that has clearly absorbed the past and looks to a bright and borderless musical future." A Single Noon will be featured on Kallor's upcoming solo album, scheduled for release in 2012.

Kallor is the recipient of a 2011 Aaron Copland Award for composition. One of ten composers nationwide selected for this prestigious residency, Kallor will compose a concerto for piano and orchestra during his time at the home of the late eminent American composer. Like A Single Noon, the concerto will be shaped by the interplay of composition and improvisation.

In May, 2011 Kallor conducted the world premiere of "My Coma Dreams," Fred Hersch's jazz theater production for chamber ensemble, actor/singer, and video animation commissioned by Peak Performances at Montclair State University. Kallor conducts performances this season at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco (presented by San Francisco Performances), and for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Annual Congress in Berlin.

Kallor's first album, There's a Rhythm, features his jazz trio with bassist Chris Van Voorst Van Beest and drummer Kendrick Scott. "Kallor can carry a poetic mood right to the edge of sorrow, always sounding lyrical and moving" (The Hartford Courant). His second album, Exhilaration, features his song-settings of poems by Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, Christina Rossetti and Herschel Garfein sung by mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala. Opera News wrote: "Kallor knows how to make these words sing, and Zabala gives perfect flight to them."