Marcy Rosen is an American cellist who is a member of the Mendelssohn Quartet, ''

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'' music critic Herbert Glass has called her "one of the intimate art's abiding treasures.".

Early life and education

Rosen was born in

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. Her music teachers included Gordon Epperson,

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, Marcus Adeney,

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and Sandor Vegh. Rosen is a graduate of the

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Career

Rosen made her concerto debut with the

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at age eighteen. She was a member of the Cantelina Chamber Players in 1982. She was a member of the Mendelssohn Quartet in 1986 when they made their recording debut with String Quartet No. 11 (Dvořák), Op. 61. Rosen has since appeared with the

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, the

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, the

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Orchestra, the

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, the Jupiter Symphony and Concord Chamber Orchestra at

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, and the

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in Tokyo. Rosen has served on the faculties of the

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, the

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, the

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and the

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. She has acted as the artistic co-director of the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival. As of 2014, Rosen was Assistant Professor of Cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music at

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and on the Faculty at the

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in New York City, as well as continuing to perform and record professionally."Bravo for Beethoven at Marlboro Music"
''Boston Globe'', By David Weininger August 07, 2012

References

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