About Me
Jeff Alan Greenway is a teacher, film composer, singer-songwriter, and pianist from Toronto, Canada. Jeff teaches piano, voice, composition and arranging for students of all ages. He has also produced and recorded many of his own albums, and created music for a wide range of Canadian and international film projects. Some of his film projects include the Hot Docs short “Janelle Niles: Inconvenient”, part of the Citizen Minutes series, and the feature-length documentary The Secret Life Of Frogs, which was featured on Animal Planet and received a Nature Documentary Award at the Cannes TV and Media Awards.
Biography
Jeff Alan Greenway is a teacher, film composer, singer-songwriter, and pianist from Toronto, Canada.
As a composer, Jeff has created music for a wide range of Canadian and international film projects, such as the Hot Docs documentary “Janelle Niles: Inconvenient”, part of the Citizen Minutes series (currently on Crave TV), the New Zealand horror film The Anniversary”, and the Indian feature-length documentary “The Secret Life Of Frogs”, which received a “Best Nature Documentary” award at the Cannes TV and Media Awards.
He was selected from more than 200 applicants from across Canada to participate in the 2021 SOCAN Screen Music Laboratory for Emerging Composers, he has been awarded a FACTOR Canada New Talent Award, and was selected to participate in the Orchestral Recording Session with the Screen Composers Guild of Canada, where he recorded a live orchestral performance of his original work “No Remedy”.
As a teacher, Jeff has worked as a piano, voice, composition and arranging teacher for private students and groups for over 30 years, both with his own studio, and at the Yamaha Music School in Toronto. Many of his students have been incredibly successful in their music studies, scoring marks in the 90s in RCM piano and theory exams, and placing 1st and 2nd in the Kiwanis and OMFA festivals.
Jeff holds a Diploma in Jazz from Humber College where he studied piano with Bernie Senensky and Dave Restivo, as well as voice with Orville Heyn. A lifelong student of music, Jeff completed the Advanced TV and Film course with Ben Newhouse at Berklee College of Music, learned arranging with John McLeod, and studied orchestration with John Herberman at the Canadian Film Centre.
A veteran pianist and singer-songwriter, Jeff has performed hundreds of live shows and released three albums of original music. An experienced collaborator in Toronto’s indie musician community, Jeff has contributed to many album projects as an arranger, orchestrator, and keyboardist.