MARCY ROSEN
Marcy Rosen has established herself as one of the most important and respected artists of our day. Los Angeles Times music critic Herbert Glass has called her “one of the intimate art’s abiding treasures” and The New Yorker Magazine calls her “a New York legend of the cello”. She has performed in recital and with orchestra throughout Canada, England, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South America, Switzerland, and all fifty of the United States. Sought after for her riveting and informative Master Classes, she has been a guest of the Curtis Institute of Music, the New England Conservatory, the San Francisco Conservatory, the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China, the Seoul Arts Center in Korea and the Cartagena International Music Festival in Colombia.
She was a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet which toured throughout the world for 31 years and since 1986 Ms. Rosen has been Artistic Director of Chesapeake Music in Maryland. That organization houses the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival, an International Chamber Music Competition and YouthReach, an educational program that provides free lessons to beginning string players. She is also an artist member of Music for Food, a musician-led initiative to fight hunger in our local communities. She maintains a long-standing relationship with the Marlboro Music Festival. Since first attending Marlboro in 1975, she has taken part in 25 Musicians from Marlboro tours and performed in concerts celebrating the 40th, 50th, and 60th anniversaries of the Festival.
A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Ms. Rosen is currently professor of cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, also serving as Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Live concert series. She is on the faculty at the Mannes College of Music in New York City. Please visit her website at www.marcyrosen.com.