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Greg Sandow (born June 3, 1943) is an Americans music critic and composer.
During his years as a critic, Sandow abandoned composition, but later resumed it. His works include four operas, one based on Frankenstein, music from which he incorporated into an orchestra piece, A Frankenstein Overture, which has been performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony and the South Dakota Symphony. Others who have performed his work include the Fine Arts Quartet, the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, and the pianist Jenny Lin.
Sandow has made public appearances throughout the United States and also abroad, and has also done consulting work and other special projects with classical music institutions, including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Since 1997 he has taught at the Juilliard School as a member of the Graduate Studies Faculty, and from 2006 to 2009 also taught at the Eastman School of Music, where he gave the commencement address in 2008. He blogs about the future of classical music on the ArtsJournal.com website.
Sandow has also extensively written and researched unidentified flying objects, GregSandow's UFO Homepage notably for the International UFO Reporter, a quarterly publication of the Center for UFO Studies.Sandow, Greg. 1997. . International UFO Reporter, Summer 1997.
Sandow is married to Anne Midgette, herself a former classical music reviewer for The New York Times and formerly chief classical music critic for The Washington Post. Sandow dedicated his "Quartet for Anne" to his wife. They live in Washington, D.C., and Warwick, New York. About Me – GREG SANDOW They have one child, Rafael Aron Sandow, born October 15, 2011.
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