Michael Rosenzweig (composer)

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