Hailed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as "both impressive and satisfying," the music of Jeffrey Nytch comprises a wide range of works that have been performed at venues throughout the United States and Europe, including Lincoln Center, the Soho Arts Festival, The Festival at Sandpoint, the Luzerne Chamber Music Festival, the Marktoberdorf International Chamber Choir Competition, and the Breckenridge Music Festival. His compositions have been performed by such artists as Richard Stoltzman (clarinet), Ann Labounsky (organ), the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Ahn Trio, the National Repertory Orchestra, the New York Chamber Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Binghamton Philharmonic, and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. A native of Vestal, New York, Nytch completed a bachelors degree at Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), studying with John Carbon, and earned Masters and Doctoral degrees in composition from the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University (Houston), under the guidance of Composer-in-Residence Paul Cooper. He has also studied with Donald Erb at Gunther Schuller's Schweitzer Institute of Music, Sandpoint, Idaho. Nytch has received numerous grants, awards and commissions, including First Prize in the American Festival for the Arts American Composers' Competition, a Creative Artist Grant from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston, and awards from ASCAP, the Ithaca College Choral Composition Competition, The Morton Gould Composers' Competition, "Meet the Composer," the American Music Center and the Mellon Foundation. Nytch’s music has been recorded by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Black, the Seattle Symphony with Richard Stoltzman and conductor Gerard Schwarz, and by George Manahan and the New York Chamber Symphony.
Recent awards and commissions include the Distinguished Alumni Citation from his alma mater, Franklin and Marshall College, and commissions from the Renaissance City Choir and the Children’s Festival Chorus of Pittsburgh.
In addition to composing full-time, Nytch is in frequent demand as a voice-over artist and countertenor soloist. He also serves as Vice President of Artistic Development for The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, one of the nation’s oldest professional ensembles devoted to the music of our time.
Jeff is currently on the faculty of The University of Colorado-Boulder, where he serves as Director of the Entrepreneurship Center for Music.