Dr. Tyrone Greive has been an emeritus professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2013
MADISON, WI, March 12, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Tyrone Greive, DMA, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Greive celebrates many years of experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
With more than 50 years of professional experience, Dr. Greive has been an emeritus professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2013, having been a full professor of music from 1991 to 2013, an associate professor of music from 1983 to 1991 and an assistant professor of music from 1979 to 1983. Earlier in his career, he was an assistant professor of music at Stephen F. Austin State University from 1977 to 1979. Yet earlier, he was an assistant professor of music at Augustana College (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) from 1971 to 1975, where he previously served as an instructor of music from 1965 to 1970 and a part-time instructor of music from 1964 to 1965. His numerous former students hold a variety of teaching and performing positions throughout the United States and abroad.
Born in Sioux City, Iowa as the only child of Donald A. and Lorraine C. Greive, the only professional musician that Greive knew about within his large, mainly working-class extended family was his violinist-great grandfather Carl Hoffman (1860-1918), who had emigrated from Germany before becoming a farmer in the US; however, both his paternal and maternal grandfathers also had played the violin earlier as either an amateur or a rural dance fiddler. Growing up in a family environment, which, with the exception of his musically self-taught, highly encouraging Uncle Donald Hoffman, lacked formal musical knowledge but had a supportively great love of music, Tyrone began public school class violin lessons at the age of 10 before beginning formal private lessons at age 13. His early teachers were Frank van der Maten and Jack (John B.)Wolff before he began more intensive studies with the renown Polish violinist-conductor Leo Kucinski during his last two years of high school. The unusual spelling of Greive's last name reflects how his father had changed its spelling from 'Grieve' while working as a young man for his Uncle Charlie in Plainview, MN, and, thus, he has many relatives who retained the original spelling.
Already playing professionally in late high school, he won his first college-level teaching position just before turning 21 and a year before earning his college bachelor's degree. Dr. Greive also performed and taught at numerous summer music festivals and camps throughout the United States, such as the Bear Lake Music Festival in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming in 1992-1994, the Allegheny Summer Music Festival, Meadville, Pennsylvania in 1982, the university division of the National Music Camp at Interlochen (MI) in 1975-77, the Black Hills Fine Arts Center in 1970-1973 and the Lakeside (OH) Summer Symphony in 1964-1965.
He earned music degrees from Morningside College, Carnegie-Mellon University and University of Michigan, where his principal violin teachers were Leo Kucinski, Sidney Harth and Angel Reyes, respectively. He also attended the Meadowmount School of Music, where he studied with Margaret Pardee, and the Aspen Music Festival, where he studied chamber music with Claus Adam, Robert Mann and Lilian Fuchs.
Also strongly impacting his development as a violinist and overall musician was his 1968 marriage to cellist and teacher Janet Rayburn. Initially meeting professionally in 1963 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, she had received much of her musical training at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, Maryland, where she earned both bachelors and masters degrees in music. Born in Vermillion, SD and trained by often prominent teachers, e.g. cellists Luigi Silva, Zara Nelsova, Raya Garbousova and Laszlo Varga and violinists William Kroll, Robert Gerle, Janet and Tyrone, along with pianist-composer Gerald Kemner, co-founded the Augustana Trio, the trio-in residence at Augustana College in 1965-1975.
A respected voice in his areas of interest, Dr. Greive has been an active leader in his community as well as profession. A member of the American Federation of Musicians and the Violin Society of America, he has served as chapter vice president of the American String Teachers Association in South Dakota and Pi Kappa Lambda in Texas. He has also served as a concertmaster for the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra in 1964-68 and 1970-75, the Shreveport Summer Music Festival in 1979-86, 1988, 2003-14, and the Madison Symphony Orchestra in 1990-2010, Longview (TX) Symphony Orchestra in 1977-79 and other orchestras. His violin performances have included solo recitals and appearances with orchestral and chamber music organizations throughout the United States, and he is renowned for his articles on violin pedagogy and repertoire to topical publications. In terms of programming he has become recognized for blending recognized standard masterworks with relatively little-known but deserving and appealing repertoire. He also has participated in many chamber performances with numerous distinguished musicians such as the Pro Arte Quartet, Augustana Trio, and especially his cellist-wife Janet, with whom he has also given numerous double concerto appearances. One highlight was an all-Polish-music recital at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City in March 2003.
Dr. Greive also has internationally published and distributed performance editions and arrangements, articles on string pedagogy and repertoire, reviews, contributions to books and CD recordings. Reflecting his research of Polish violin music from all historical periods, he has devoted numerous performances and many presentations to a variety of as well large numbers of his over 100 publications to Polish music and the history of the violin in Poland. A few of his publications are catalogued under a misspelling of his last name, i.e. 'Grieve.'
Since joining the faculty in Madison, Dr. Greive has extensively studied Polish violin repertoire and the history of the instrument in Poland as well as making in-depth examinations of Poland's overall history and culture. Not Polish himself, his interest in Polish music was instigated by his late teacher and long-time mentor, Warsaw-born Leo Kucinski. With this research, also including the receipt of several research grants and four trips to Poland (the first coinciding with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989), Dr. Greive's numerous articles about Polish music and the violin in Poland have been widely published. Also, his performance editions of both Polish and non-Polish violin music, often created from manuscripts found in Polish libraries, have been published by PWM Editions of Kraków, Poland and Masters Music, Hildegaard Publications and International Music in the US.
Throughout his career, Dr. Greive has received awards and accolades for his achievements. He has been featured in numerous honors publications, including the third edition of Who's Who in Entertainment, the 23rd edition of Who's Who in the Midwest, and the 2nd edition of Who's Who in American Music: Classical. In fall of 1985, Morningside College gave Dr. Greive a Distinguished Alumni Award, in February of 1998, he was named winner of a 1997 Stefan and Wanda Wilk Prize for Research in Polish Music sponsored by the Polish Music Research Center at the University of Southern California and in October 2018, the Wisconsin chapter of the American String Teachers Association designated Dr. Greive as the "WiASTA Teacher of the Year for 2018."
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Tyrone Greive, DMA, has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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