Mr. Tyler Greengard

Bachelor of Music, Jazz Studies & Performance

  • William Paterson University

    • University Honors College, Dean’s List, “Outstanding Musician Award” Recipient


Tyler Greengard has performed alongside such luminaries as Wynton Marsalis, Jimmy Heath, The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Temptations, Ingrid Jensen, Bill Charlap, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Joe Lovano, and many others. He joined the Glenn Miller Orchestra on their 2021 tour, The Temptations on their summer 2022 southeast tour, and was a featured artist with Wynton Marsalis and The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for their 2025 annual gala honoring Duke Ellington.

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and Birmingham, Alabama, Greengard developed a love for music in high school, where he was accepted for two consecutive years into Jazz at Lincoln Center’s prestigious Summer Jazz Academy. He went on to graduate summa cum laude from the esteemed jazz program at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, earning the "Outstanding Musician Award" in his senior year. In December 2019, he released his first record, "Trio." Greengard remains an in-demand saxophonist, flutist, composer, arranger, and educator in the NYC tri-state area.

As an educator, Tyler Greengard's private students have been admitted to premiere institutions, competitions, programs, and conservatories including Manhattan School of Music, Eastman School of Music, The New School, University of North Texas, William Paterson University, and many more. Additionally, ensembles he has coached have gone on to perform at world-renowned festivals and competitions, such as Essentially Ellington, the Midwest Clinic, the Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference, Bands of America Regional Finals, National Adjudicators Invitational, and many more.