About

Lauded by NPR as a “sartorially resplendent 18-year-old from Philadelphia [who] lives a double life as both an extraordinary pianist and a composer”, Rhyuhn Phallon Green (born May 5, 2006) began his musical studies at the age of 2. He is a student of Dean and Director David Ludwig at the Juilliard School where he is a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship.

Green is known worldwide for his award-winning single, Symbiosis, which has been featured on concert programs by NPR’s Tiny Desk, NPR’s From the Top, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Curtis Institute of Music.

In the rock style, he has opened concerts for Korn, Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch, and more, for the 2015 Rock Allegiance. In the jazz style, he worked with Ruth Naomi Floyd and Jaamaladeen Tacuma in their residency at the Clef Club. He regularly collaborates with the Juilliard Jazz department, which is under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. As a violinist, Green has worked under the batons of Joseph Conyers and Yannick Nezet-Seguin.

Green began studying piano privately at the Curtis Institute of Music, under Grammy-nominated pianist Michelle Cann, at the age of 9. He went on to make his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 12 as a winner of the Crescendo International Competition. After joining the Marian Anderson Young Artist Program at age 16, Green began to study composition under Harvard Rieman and Bakatel Fellow William “Bill” Dougherty. Since then, he has received commissions and notable performances by the Philadelphia Ballet, Manhattan Brass Quintet, and the Abington Symphony, among others.

He releases music and cross-disciplinary works through his creative enterprise, ‘Rhychords’.

Green has been the recipient of awards from:

The Crescendo International Competition, NPR’s From the Top, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Play On Philly! , the Marian Anderson Young Artist Program, The Juilliard School, and The Delaware School of Music.

Rhyuhn has appeared on NPR’s From the Top, in a special episode with Joseph Conyers, and is the first alumni of the Marian Anderson Young Artist Program. Rhyuhn’s mentors and advisors have included Michelle Cann, William Dougherty, Anna Meyer, Valerie Coleman, and Anna Meyer.

Rhyuhn is also on the board of Generation Music, a non-profit that aims to have artists serve as ambassadors and mentors for their communities to cultivate the next generation of creatives and advocates for diversity in classical music.