RICHARD ROSENBERG (Hot Springs Music Festival Artistic Director & Conductor/Producer) <rr@hotmusic.org> is one of a handful of American conductors whose experience ranges from contemporary music to historical performance practice. Under his baton, Mr. Rosenberg's editions of music by the 19th-century Louisiana composers Edmond Dédé, Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Lucién Lambert, as well as music by Jerome Moross, were recently released on five compact discs on the Naxos/Marco Polo label. Scheduled for release in March 2010 is his recording of jazz-inspired concerti including music by George Gershwin, James Price Johnson, Harry Reser and Dana Suesse.

As a guest conductor, Mr. Rosenberg has performed throughout the Americas and Europe. Recent performances with the Internationales Kärntner Wörtersee Musikstipendum–Carinthian Symphony, the Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de Caracas in Venezuela and the Festival Música nas Montanhas in Brazil, Mr. Rosenberg have led to invitations to return again next season.

With the violist Yizhak Schotten, Mr. Rosenberg recorded a disc of works for viola and chamber orchestra for Crystal Records, and he directed American contemporary music for the Opus One label. Mr. Rosenberg conducted the groundbreaking collaborative concert of an American orchestral ensemble and an ensemble of traditional Japanese instruments, Pro Musica Nipponia, in Detroit's Orchestra Hall. The concert included music written for this cooperative experiment by Minoru Miki, one of Japan's preeminent composers. On two weeks' notice, Mr. Rosenberg led the critically-acclaimed European tour of Arleen Auger and The Classical Band, a New York-based early instrument orchestra. Mr. Rosenberg recently conducted two performances of Gustav Mahler's monumental Symphony No. 3 with the Orchestra Sinfonica della Fondazione "Tito Schipa" di Lecce in Italy, and was invited to return for additional concerts to lead the premiere of Nicola Scardicchio's “Mosè” and music of Dave Brubeck. He has completed residencies at the University of Kansas at Lawrence and Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, and was just awarded a Yale University School of Music AlumniVentures Grant to support his research into the works of 19th-century American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk in Cuba, including recovery and editing of two unpublished, never-performed operas and numerous other works for military band and orchestra, with the final aim of publishing, performing and recording them.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Rosenberg was music director of the Chamber Orchestra of California in San Francisco, the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Ballet and RESONANCE, a New York contemporary music ensemble. He also served on the conducting staffs of the Baltimore Symphony, the Oakland Symphony, the London Classical Players, the Michigan MozartFest and the Aspen Music Festival and as Acting Director of Orchestras at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Mr. Rosenberg's experience includes study with composers Mario Davidovsky, Krzysztof Penderecki and Carlos Surinach; clarinet with Gervase De Peyer and Georg Hirner; theory with Charles Burkhardt, George Perle, and Carl Schacter; opera staging with Roger Brunyate and Boris Goldovsky; choral conducting with Margaret Hillis, Robert Shaw and Elmer Thomas, and conducting apprenticeships with Eugen Jochum, Friedrich Cerha, Günther Herbig, Julius Herford, Carlos Kleiber, Giuseppe Patané, Wolfgang Sawallisch (Bavarian State Opera), Jerzy Semkow and Leonard Bernstein (New York Philharmonic). He was an active participant in master classes with Pierre Boulez, Aaron Copland, Jussi Jalas, Lorin Maazel, Julius Rudel, Sir Georg Solti and Walter Weller.

In 1988, he was awarded a Rackham Fellowship to work in Europe with Sir Roger Norrington and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. His training also includes studies at Yale University with Otto-Werner Müller, the Peabody Institute-Johns Hopkins University with Frederik Prausnitz, the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Herbert von Karajan, the Aspen Music Festival with Paul Vermel, at the City University of New York with Fritz Jahoda, Cincinnati College-Conservatory with Gerhard Samuel and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Franco Ferrara.

He is an honorary Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary International Foundation, an honorary National Arts Associate of Sigma Alpha Iota and a member of the National Advisory Board of the Henry Mancini Institute.

Mr. Rosenberg's numerous orchestrations and his corrected editions of J.S. Bach's “Saint Matthew Passion,” George Gershwin's “A Rhapsody in Blue,” Arnold Schönberg's “Verklärte Nacht” and the complete orchestral music of Gottschalk (which he has just prepared for publication) have received numerous performances. In addition to his work as a conductor, Mr. Rosenberg has produced two compact discs of music with jazz legend Dave Brubeck, and two discs of Mozart piano concerti, all for the Naxos Records label.

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Richard Rosenberg, conductor, is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Hot Springs Music Festival. Earlier music directorships include the Corpus Christi Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of California, the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony and the Pennsylvania Ballet. He also served on the conducting staffs of the Baltimore Symphony, the Oakland Symphony, the London Classical Players and the Aspen Music Festival, and as Acting Director of Orchestras at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. As a guest conductor, Mr. Rosenberg has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, Miami City Ballet, and symphony orchestras and ballet companies throughout the United States, Europe and South America. His upcoming engagements include concerts with the Kaerntner Symphony Orchestra, The Festival Música nas Montanhas; The Vancouver Island Symphony and the Orquesta Filarmonica de Montevideo. Mr. Rosenberg’s teachers include Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan and Sir Roger Norrington. He has recorded ten compact discs of American music for the Naxos Records label, and has produced several CDs with jazz legend Dave Brubeck.