Michael Rosenzweig (composer)

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Michael Rosenzweig, born 1951 in Cape Town, South Africa, is a composer, conductor, choral trainer and director, multi-instrumentalist and jazz musician. [1]

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Education

Merton Barrow provided him a thorough practical grounding as a performer. He played guitar in Merton Barrow's ensemble, the Jazz Workshop for many years. He then studied composition with Donald Martino at New England Conservatory of Music He holds the only internal London University master's degree conferred without undergraduate degree or A-levels. Michael Rosenzweig is acclaimed as one of two notable students of both Jack Beeson, the only American to study composition with Bartok, and of Chou Wen-chung, the editor of French-born American composer Edgard Varese's scores. He studied with both of them while on full scholarship and stipend from Columbia University's doctoral programme. [2] [3]

Conducting

While assistant at the Berliner Konzertchor, he was music director of their youth choir. He conducted their Berlin Philharmonie debut. He conducted the Blacher Ensemble, the new music ensemble from the Berlin Hochschule der Kunste in their international venue debut. He also conducted Sinfonietta Berlin, his own chamber orchestra in major venues and festivals. The orchestra performed both standard repertoire and contemporary music, including premieres of his own music.

In the United Kingdom he has conducted the English Chamber Orchestra and the City of London Sinfonia. [4] [5]

In Central and Eastern Europe he has conducted the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic, [6] the Slovak State Philharmonic, Sudecka Philharmonic in Wałbrzych,Poland, [7] the State Philharmonic of Iaşi [8] and Vidin State Philharmonic among others. Since 2008, he has been the principal guest conductor of the Vidin State Philharmonic. [9] He has also conducted the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra. [10]

Composition

Maestro Michael Rosenzweig has established himself over more than forty years as a composer of note, having won many major prizes and awards, the highest being the DAAD Berliner Kunstler Fellowship in 1990, an award given to composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, Krzysztof Penderecki, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luciano Berio, György Ligeti, Alberto Ginastera, and others of this eminence. He received this award at age 39. He was the youngest recipient of this award. [11] [12] He has also conducted the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra. [13]

He has over twenty successfully performed works, nineteen commissions, and four that have won important awards. His other awards include the Greater London Arts Council Young Composer's Award and the Gaudeamus Foundation, won two years running, coming both first and second in the first year. [14]

Commissioners include the London Sinfonietta, the Arditti Quartet, State Philharmonic of Iasi, Divertimenti String Orchestra and BBC Radio 3. Performers include the RLPO, Arditti Quartet, London Sinfonietta, and the State Philharmonic of Iasi. Works have been commissioned by the BBC, the London Sinfonietta, [15] the Divertimenti String Orchestra, and Nina Beilina.

Rosenzweig's String Quartet No. 2 (1989) was commissioned in October 1988, by the BBC for the Arditti Quartet and delivered in April 1989. It was first performed and recorded in June 1995, and broadcast by the BBC Radio 3 on 3 January 2009. [16] [17]

Selected works

Commissioned works

Other works

Partial References

  1. ↑ "British Music Collection: Michael Rosenzweig". 4 April 2009.
  2. ↑ "Michael Rosenzweig – Sofia Philharmonic". 16 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Michael Rosenzweig (conductor) - Artist - Hyperion Records - CDs, MP3 and Lossless downloads". 16 November 2023.
  4. ↑ "Michael Rosenzweig – Sofia Philharmonic". 16 November 2023.
  5. ↑ "Michael Rosenzweig (conductor) - Artist - Hyperion Records - CDs, MP3 and Lossless downloads". 16 November 2023.
  6. ↑ "Moravian Philharmonic". Archived from the original on 9 February 2007. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  7. ↑ "Index of /". Archived from the original on 5 February 2007. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  8. ↑ "Filarmonica Moldova Iași". Filarmonicais.ro. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  9. ↑ "Michael Rosenzweig – Sofia Philharmonic". 16 November 2023.
  10. ↑ "Michael Rosenzweig (conductor) - Artist - Hyperion Records - CDs, MP3 and Lossless downloads". 16 November 2023.
  11. ↑ "BKP Award Fellows Michael Rosenzweig, Great Britain, Music, 1990".
  12. ↑ "Michael Rosenzweig – Sofia Philharmonic". 16 November 2023.
  13. ↑ "Michael Rosenzweig (conductor) - Artist - Hyperion Records - CDs, MP3 and Lossless downloads". 16 November 2023.
  14. ↑ "Michael Rosenzweig (conductor) - Artist - Hyperion Records - CDs, MP3 and Lossless downloads". 16 November 2023.
  15. ↑ David C.H. Wright (2005). "The London Sinfonietta 1968–2004: A Perspective. twentieth-century music". Twentieth-Century Music. 2 (1): 109–136. doi:10.1017/S1478572205000216. S2CID   162372309.
  16. ↑ Pre-Hear, Bbc.co.uk, 3 January 2009
  17. ↑ "Rosenzweig, Michael (b1951) - Composer - Hyperion Records - CDs, MP3 and Lossless downloads". 16 November 2023.
  18. 1 2 3 Paul Griffiths, "Concerts: Festival Hall", The Times 25 March 1986
  19. ↑ Meirion Bowen, The Guardian 22 February 1982
  20. ↑ Hampstead and Highgate Express, 26 February 1982
  21. 1 2 3 4 Mellers, Wilfrid; Dreyer, Martin (1986), "Music New and Old: Two Festivals Considered", The Musical Times, 127 (1722): 494–498, doi:10.2307/964592, JSTOR   964592
  22. ↑ Michael Kennedy, The Daily Telegraph 25 November 1985
  23. ↑ Bryan Northcott, The Sunday Telegraph 12 January 1985

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