You make everything we do possible
Give Today!The Oregon Symphony presents Studio 125, a new digital destination for music
ExploreEnjoy Symphony Storytime, a fun and unique series from the Oregon Symphony designed for pre-K through elementary aged children.
Watch nowYou make everything we do possible
Give Today!The Oregon Symphony presents Studio 125, a new digital destination for music
ExploreEnjoy Symphony Storytime, a fun and unique series from the Oregon Symphony designed for pre-K through elementary aged children.
Watch nowHome > Discover > The Orchestra > Percussion > Jonathan Greeney
Jon Greeney has been principal timpanist of the Oregon Symphony since the autumn of 2010. He is also an adjunct professor of percussion studies at Portland State University. Jon holds a B.M. from the Peabody Conservatory, and an M.M. from Cleveland State University. His teachers at Peabody included percussion virtuosos Robert van Sice and Jonathan Haas, and at Cleveland State he studied with Tom Freer of the Cleveland Orchestra.
Jon has performed as an orchestral percussionist, timpanist, and chamber musician in numerous venues around the country, including Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. In 2006, Jon won a position in the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa in Veracruz, Mexico, where he performed as a full-time section percussionist until the summer of 2008. Since joining the Oregon Symphony, Jon and his family have resided happily in Portland Oregon.