About
American songwriter, piano virtuoso, and composer Rhyuhn Green (born May 5, 2006) is All For Culture — an artist devoted to pushing boundaries and bridging worlds. Hailed by NPR as “both an extraordinary pianist and a composer,” Green began his lifelong devotion to music at the age of two and has since captivated audiences around the world with his distinctive, divine artistry and unmistakable originality.
His award-winning single Symbiosis — praised by NPR for its “wealth of hummable tunes” and by CBS for “wowing audiences” — has been featured by NPR’s Tiny Desk, the Philadelphia Orchestra, WRTI, and the Curtis Institute of Music, cementing his reputation as both a versatile performer and a style-blending composer whose works resonate far beyond the concert hall.
At age nine, in the rock style, he opened concerts for Korn, Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch, and more, for the 2015 Rock Allegiance. At the same time, Green began studying piano privately at the Curtis Institute of Music (where he was later accepted and awarded a composition fellowship at age 17) under GRAMMY® award-winning pianist Michelle Cann. He went on to make his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 12 as a winner of the Crescendo International Competition.
After joining Philadelphia’s Marian Anderson Young Artist Program at age sixteen, Green began to study composition under Harvard Rieman and Bakatel Fellow William “Bill” Dougherty. In the jazz style, he worked with Ruth Naomi Floyd and Jaamaladeen Tacuma in their residency at the Clef Club. Since then, he has received numerous commissions and notable performances by the Philadelphia Ballet, Manhattan Brass Quintet, and the Abington Symphony, among others. He currently composes under Dean and Director David Ludwig and Valerie Coleman at the Juilliard School where he is a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. 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.
Rhyuhn is a Recording Academy and GRAMMY® Member.
As a highly decorated young music writers, Green has been the recipient of awards and fellowships 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! and the Marian Anderson Young Artist Program, The Juilliard School, and The Delaware School of Music.
Rhyuhn has appeared on NPR’s From the Top, the Black Orchestral Network’s ‘Black Music Seen’, and is the first alumni of the Marian Anderson Young Artist Program. His mentors and advisors have included Jon Batiste, David Serkin Ludwig, Valerie Coleman, William Dougherty, Michelle Cann, and Anna Meyer.
