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Harold Rosenbaum is one of the most accomplished and critically acclaimed choral conductors of our time. A vital force in American choral music for 36 years, Mr. Rosenbaum is founder and artistic director of two major choral groups: The Canticum Novum Singers now celebrating its 37th season, and The New York Virtuoso Singers, now marking its 22th. Mr. Rosenbaum has conducted over 1,450 concerts with these choirs and with others, including Westchester Oratorio Society, and his university choirs. In addition, he has collaborated over 100 times with leading orchestras such as The New York Philharmonic with James Conlon, The Brooklyn Philharmonic (over 55 times) with Robert Spano, Lukas Foss, Dennis Russell Davies, Michael Christie, and Grant Llewellyn, The American Symphony with Leon Botstein, The American Composers Orchestra with Steven Sloane, The Riverside Symphony with George Rothman, The Orchestra of St. Luke's with Sir Charles Mackerras, plus The Juilliard Orchestra, The Bard Festival Orchestra, and others. He has also collaborated with P.D.Q. Bach in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Halls, with The Mark Morris Dance Group, Bang on a Can, The Glyndebourne Opera Company, and The Bel Canto Opera Company. Mr. Rosenbaum's choirs have performed many times on Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series, and have appeared on The David Letterman Show, at The Tanglewood Festival, and in concerts with James Galway, Tony Randall, Tony Bennett, Licia Albanese, Marianne Faithful, Leonard Slatkin, The Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Ilana Vered, Ned Rorem, F. Murray Abraham, Peter Schichele, Ennio Morricone, and many others. As a consultant to G. Schirmer, Inc. and Hal Leonard Corporation, Mr. Rosenbaum performs several important roles. He composes, recommends scores for publication, gives workshops and clinics, and shares his broad knowledge of the choral field with Schirmer's editorial and marketing team. Recently he uncovered and edited a major choral work by Samuel Barber, which G. Schirmer has recently published. In the fall of 2007 G. Schirmer released the Harold Rosenbaum Choral Series, designed to promote the music of contemporary American composers. In this new series, Mr. Rosenbaum edits the music and offers performance suggestions for singers and conductors. The series presents previously unpublished works by emerging American composers as well as established ones like Samuel Barber. At the annual convention of the American Choral Directors Association in Miami in March, 2007, Mr. Rosenbaum presented one of these works: Samuel Barber's "Motetto on Words of Job" in three "interest sessions." Mr. Rosenbaum has held professorships at four universities, including The Juilliard School; he is currently a professor at University at Buffalo, where he directs the choirs, and teaches conducting and other courses. He has created a commissioning program for young composers, an annual choral composition competition, and has premiered over 300 works, including compositions by Ravel (in Paris), Schnittke, Henze, Berio, Perle, Harbison, and Babbitt. Other highlights in his distinguished career include over 90 concerts on 23 European tours, where he has conducted the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, L'Orchestre d'Europe, the New Prague Collegium, and the Madeira Bach Festival Orchestra, and appearances in Festivals in Portugal, Italy, and England. He has been heard on dozens of radio and television broadcasts, including Voice of America worldwide, in multiple live broadcasts from Symphony Space and on WNCN, and on 14 commercial CD's for SONY Classical, Albany Records, CRI, Bridge Records, Koch International, Capstone Records, and DRG Records. Mr. Rosenbaum was recently appointed Artistic Director of TheSociety for Universal Sacred Music. This ofrganization creates opportunities for universal sacred music to be performed and heard through concerts, workshops and festivals. In December 2005, Mr. Rosenbaum conducted the Canticum Novum Singers and Canticum Novum Youth Choir throughout a special episode of CBS TVs "48 Hours". Entitled "The Mysteries of the Nativity," it was rebroadcast in December of 2006. Recent highlights included: conducting The Walla Walla Symphony, multiple collaborations with The Brooklyn Philharmonic, another with The American Composers Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, and his performances of Bach's St. John Passion, Monteverdi's Vespers with Baroque Orchestra, Rachmaninoff's Vespers performed in Church Slavonic, and premieres by Krenek, Imbrie, Harbison, Ran, Musgrave, Conti, and Kingswood. In early February 2007, Mr. Rosenbaum and his choirs collaborated with legendary film composer Ennio Morricone and The Roma Sinfonietta in concerts in the General Assembly of the United Nations, and at Radio City. The latter concert was taped for future broadcast on worldwide television, including PBS in this country. Also recently Mr. Rosenbaum once again conducted The New York Virtuoso Singers at Tanglewood's Festival of Contemporary Music, and returned to The Bard Music Festival with his expanded (ninety-voice) New York Virtuoso Singers, which performed works in Czech, Polish and Russian. Other recent concerts include Bach's St. John Passion in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Nathan Currier's oratorio Gaian Variations in Avery Fisher Hall with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and Verdi's Requiem in Carnegie Hall with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and all five of his choirs. The New York Virtuoso Singers performed John Adams' opera The Death of Klinghoffer at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.


Music for Choir and Saxophones The world's leading saxophone quartet presents a world premiere by an American composer, then collaborates with The New York Virtuoso Singers. Then NYVS performs this year's BMI Young Composer Award's outstanding composition for three choirs and three tr	1/31/2010 03:00 PM St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church 552 WEA at 87th St. New York NY 10024 us	Phone:914 763 3453 Email:canticorumv@gmail.com Web:www.nyvirtuoso.org
Dual Passions David Lang's Pulitzer Prize winning Little Match Girl Passion + Heinrich Schuetz's St. Matthew Passion, which influenced Bach's which influenced Lang's. Pre concert talk with David Lang at 2 PM. Guest artists: Baritones David Arnold and Thomas Megliora	11/22/2009 03:00 PM St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church 552 WEA at 87th St. New York NY 10024 us	Phone:914 763 3453 Email:canticorumv@gmail.co Web:www.nyvirtuoso.org

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