Morris Rosenzweig
Artistic Director, 2015 - Present
Morris Rosenzweig, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Utah now living in New Orleans again, grew up in an extended family which has lived in southern Louisiana since the mid-1890s. His works have been widely presented throughout the United States and Europe, as well as in Japan, Argentina, Mexico and Israel. Among the noted ensembles who have brought these works to life are Speculum Musicae, "Piano and Percussion-Stuttgart", The New York New Music Ensemble, the Chamber Players of the League-ISCM, EARPLAY, NOVA, Philippe Entremont with the New Orleans Symphony, and Joseph Silverstein with the Utah Symphony. His recorded compositions are available on the Albany and New World labels. Rosenzweig's catalog of over 75 entries features works for orchestra, various chamber ensembles, compositions for live instruments and electronics, two song cycles, two piano cycles, solo pieces, and one opera, Box and Cox.
Recent activities include the New York premiere of an extended work written for Talujon Percussion and the upcoming premiere and recording of a commissioned piece for viola and electronics,
Mr. Rosenzweig has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation for a residency at Bellagio. Other distinctions include those from American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, and the Alice M. Ditson Fund. Mr. Rosenzweig is an active conductor and coach and worked for many years with various groups in New York, and both the Canyonlands Ensemble, and The New Music Ensemble in Utah.
As a professor at the University of Utah for over 30 years he taught composition, theory, contemporary performance practice, and directed the Maurice Abravanel Visiting Distinguished Composers Series – he has formerly held positions at Queens College and New York University. A frequently invited speaker, he has given colloquia at Harvard, Brandeis, Stony Brook, and the University of New Mexico, among others, and served as Guest Composer at the Composers Conference at Wellesley. He was educated at the Eastman School of Music, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University.
Recent activities include the New York premiere of an extended work written for Talujon Percussion and the upcoming premiere and recording of a commissioned piece for viola and electronics,
Mr. Rosenzweig has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation for a residency at Bellagio. Other distinctions include those from American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, and the Alice M. Ditson Fund. Mr. Rosenzweig is an active conductor and coach and worked for many years with various groups in New York, and both the Canyonlands Ensemble, and The New Music Ensemble in Utah.
As a professor at the University of Utah for over 30 years he taught composition, theory, contemporary performance practice, and directed the Maurice Abravanel Visiting Distinguished Composers Series – he has formerly held positions at Queens College and New York University. A frequently invited speaker, he has given colloquia at Harvard, Brandeis, Stony Brook, and the University of New Mexico, among others, and served as Guest Composer at the Composers Conference at Wellesley. He was educated at the Eastman School of Music, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University.
