Early life
Rosenbaum was born inCareer as pianist
As a pianist, Rosenbaum has performed in the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, Russia, Israel, Brazil, and in Europe. He was a member of two trios, the Wheaton Trio and the Figaro Trio. His recitals have taken him to Chicago, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, St. Petersburg (Russia), New York, and his long-time home, Boston, among many other places. His chamber music partners have included the Cleveland, Borromeo, and Brentano String Quartets, cellists Leonard Rose, Paul Katz, Laurence Lesser, Colin Carr, and Michael Kannen, and violinists Robert Mann, Roman Totenberg, James Buswell, and Arnold Steinhardt and Eric Rosenblith. Festival appearances have included Tanglewood, Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall, The Heifetz Institute, the International Keyboard Institute and Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Puerto Rico International Piano Festival, and Tel Hai and Kfar Blum in Israel, among others. His performances have been widely praised for their communicative power. One early review said: "Rosenbaum is one of those artists who make up for all the drudgery the habitual concert goer must endure in the hopes of finding the occasional, real right thing." (Boston Globe).Teaching and other activities
Rosenbaum began teaching at the New England Conservatory in 1967 and that has been his primary musical home ever since. He is past Chair of the Piano and Chamber Music departments. He was also Visiting Professor of Piano at Eastman School of Music during the 1983–84 academic year, and taught at Mannes College of Music in New York from 2003 to 2017. He has also held adjunct positions at Brandeis University and MIT, as well as teaching at the summer festivals mentioned above (see Pianist Career). He has also been a guest teacher at Juilliard and gives master classes worldwide at such places as the Jerusalem Music Center, the Toho School (Tokyo), St. Petersburg (Russia) Conservatory, the Moscow Conservatory, and the three main music schools of London: The Royal College of Music, The Royal Academy of Music, and The Guildhall School. Rosenbaum was also Director (later designated President) of the Longy School of Music (later of Bard College) from 1985 to 2001. During his sixteen-year tenure as head of that school, the institution greatly expanded its educational scope and became a cultural center for the Boston/Cambridge community. The community division grew exponentially, and a master's degree program was developed for aspiring professionals. Festivals, symposia, and concert series became central to the activities of the school, as well as outreach activities into Cambridge and Boston school systems and communities. Rosenbaum has also been intermittently active as a composer and conductor. While still in graduate school he won a national choral composition competition and his works have been performed in the US and abroad. He has guest conducted the New England Conservatory orchestra, as well as community orchestras in and around Boston. He founded and conducted The Concerto Company, a chamber orchestra whose mission was to give young artists the opportunity to perform as soloist with an orchestra. Rosenbaum frequently gives lectures and workshops to teachers' organizations around the country. He has also recorded widely praised CD's on the Bridge Records and Fleur de Son labels. They include two discs of Beethoven's music (one of which, of the last three sonatas, was named one of the 10 best Classical CD's of 2005) three of Schubert, one Mozart and a Brahms disc released in 2020.References
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