Seth Grosshandler received his B.A. in Music from Reed College with a focus on music composition. His thesis composition - a Quintet for Piano and Winds – won the Reed College Class of 1921 Award, given for “creative work of notable character, involving an unusual degree of initiative and spontaneity.” He then spent a year in Paris, France, studying composition and orchestration, before going to law school. During law school and throughout his brief (35-year) gig as a lawyer, he performed as a pianist in several chamber music concerts in the New York City and Chicago areas. Since retiring as a lawyer in 2018, he has focused again on composition while continuing to perform his own and others’ works.  

His works have been performed by the Ulysses Quartet, the Terra String Quartet, the Marmen Quartet, Manhattan Chamber Players, the New York Classical Players, the Symphony of the Mountains and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, among others. His works have been (and soon will be) performed at several notable series, including the Phillips Collection, Music Mountain, Kallos Chamber Music Series, Treetops Chamber Music, Howland Chamber Music Circle, and the Crescent City Chamber Music Festival.  

Seth is also a visual artist, focusing on printmaking and mixed media pieces.  He has been a student of Wendy Shalen and Bill Behnken at the Art Students League and of Elaine Brieger at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.  He uses discarded materials such as packing materials and old record albums to create plates from which he creates monoprints (often using chine collé) that either stand on their own or are further manipulated in collages or elaborated with hand painting.  Several of his monoprints were selected to be shown and sold at the Art Students League booth at the Affordable Art Fair in New York City in March, 2022. His most recent work is shown on this website.