Jeffrey Niederhoffer is a composer living in New York City. He obtained a B.M. in Composition from the Berklee College of Music in 1977; studied counterpoint and composition privately in Boston 1976 through 1978 with Hugo Norden; and then received an M.M. in Composition from the Manhattan School of Music in 1980, where he was a student of the late Ursula Mamlok. After retiring from a 30-year career as an attorney, he returned to music composition in March 2017.
His work for violin and piano, Picking Up Where I Left Off, was premiered in April 2021 by Duo Chromatica as part of Kaleidoscope MusArt’s Time Fragments concert, after winning a First-Place Prize in their 2020 Call for Scores - Bagatelles for Beethoven. The work was also declared the winner of the 2020 John Eaton Memorial Composition Competition, sponsored by the New York Composers Circle, and was recorded in May 2021. In December 2020, his work for solo alto saxophone entitled Askew, But Not Amiss was awarded a Third-Place Prize in the 3rd International “New Vision” Composition Competition in New York City. This work received its world premiere performance on March 25, 2022 in Tampa, Florida as part of the CAMPGround22 Festival. The saxophonist was Katherine Weintraub.
Recent Events
His latest work for solo piano, les pierres éclatent, and Askew, But Not Amiss, were performed on May 18 and June 14, respectively, as part of the New York Composers Circle 2021-2022 concert season.
