Ronny Michael Greenberg
CEO & Artistic Director

Ronny Michael Greenberg is a pianist, producer, and musical visionary whose career bridges performance, curation, and artistic leadership. His work has illuminated stages from Carnegie Hall to Vienna’s Konzerthaus, while also reshaping how audiences experience music through innovative, immersive cultural programming.

At the center of his entrepreneurial work is Taste of Talent, the nonprofit organization he founded and leads as CEO. Through Taste of Talent, Ronny has developed a portfolio of distinctive, multi-sensory projects that unite music, culture, and community. These include Opera Aloha, a Pacific concert tour blending opera with Hawaiian musical traditions; the Bay Area’s iconic Halloween concert Death by Aria; JIVE – Jewish Innovative Voices & Experiences, a platform for genre-crossing Jewish musical expression; and Taste of México, a series celebrating Mexican musical, visual, and culinary traditions.

Beyond Taste of Talent, Ronny’s producing work extends to major institutions and landmark venues. His producer credits include TILT, Grace Cathedral’s annual Summer Solstice concert; the Merola Opera Program Gala; and special performances at Filoli Historic House & Gardens.

Alongside his producing work, Ronny maintains an active and wide-ranging performing career. In 2024, he marked the centennial of Rhapsody in Blue with performances across the Bay Area, highlighted by a full orchestral concert with Festival Napa Valley conducted by Ming Luke, and a chamber version at Grace Cathedral with the Telegraph Quartet, bassist Charles Chandler, and mezzo-soprano and aerialist Nikola Printz. The project also included a solo outreach tour serving Bay Area schools and senior communities.

During the 2025–26 season, Ronny expanded his national profile with two major New York debuts. He appeared in cabaret at 54 Below with soprano Leah Crocetto and performed in recital with world-renowned tenor Pene Pati as part of the Park Avenue Armory Performing Series. The Armory recital was named one of The New York Times’ Best Classical Music Performances of 2025. That season also included his performance of Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 in an all-French program with the Harper Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Benjamin Firer.

Ronny’s curatorial leadership extends into arts advocacy and philanthropy. He curates and emcees the music for San Francisco Opera Guild’s Evening on the Stage, the organization’s annual gala honoring leaders in civic and cultural life. He also curated A Grand Night for Singing: An American Songfest, an all-American song concert presented during the 2025 Merola Opera Program season, celebrating the breadth and diversity of American vocal music through a contemporary lens.

Integral to Ronny’s curatorial work is his voice as an arranger and emerging composer. Nearly all of his multicultural and interdisciplinary projects involve original arrangements crafted for specific chamber ensembles, vocal ranges, and unconventional instrument–voice pairings, allowing each program to be shaped around its artists, setting, and cultural context. His arranging practice has become a defining feature of his work, enabling fluid movement across genres and traditions. In recent years, this creative impulse has expanded into composition. He composed Años de Oro, his first original song in Ladino written for the Jewish New Year, and co-composed Held in Light with soprano Leah Crocetto, premiered at Grace Cathedral’s 2025 Summer Solstice concert. Together, his arranging and compositional work reflect a growing commitment to creating new repertoire that honors tradition while speaking in a contemporary voice.

Beyond the concert hall, Ronny continues to explore music’s relationship to place, hospitality, and sensory experience. He serves as Music Director of Castellucci Napa Valley, where he curates Savor the Sound, a series of musical tastings that blend live performance, audience participation, and wine.

Across his career, Ronny has collaborated with leading institutions including San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, Festival Napa Valley, Merola Opera Program, Hawaiʻi Opera Theatre, Hawaiʻi Performing Arts Festival, the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago, and Music at Kohl Mansion.

Looking ahead, in summer 2026 Ronny returns to the faculty of Festival Napa Valley’s Manetti Shrem Opera Program and curates the seventh edition of TILT at Grace Cathedral. Through all of his work, he remains deeply committed to breaking boundaries of genre and culture, creating spaces for connection, collaboration, and artistic freedom.