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Michael Rosenzweig, born 1951 in Oranjezicht (now City Bowl), a district of Cape Town, is a South African composer, conductor and jazz musician
Studied composition with Donald Martino at New England Conservatory of Music and on Columbia University’s doctoral programme with Chou Wen-chung, Jack Beeson, and Patricia Carpenter (Theorist Carpenter was Arnold Schoenberg’s assistant at UCLA for the last 12 years of his life). He also studied theory with Patricia Carpenter and George Perle.
He studied choral conducting with Fritz Weisse of the Berliner Konzert-chor, where he was the assistant and the Musical Director of the Youth choir, whose Philharmonie debut he conducted. He also studied orchestral conducting with Lawrence Leonard and with Emanuel Hurwitz, whom he saw regularly for analysis and coaching for several years until the latter's death in November 2006.
While assistant at the Berliner Konzertchor, he conducted the Blacher Ensemble, the new music ensemble from the Berlin Hochschule der Kunste in their international venue debut as well as other orchestras and ensembles in major venues and festivals, performing both standard repertoire and contemporary music, including several premieres.
In the UK he has conducted the ECO, the City of London Sinfonia featuring Gervase de Peyer as soloist, the London Strings (at St James’s Piccadilly) with Yonty Solomon, and Buckingham and District Music Society as well as performances of contemporary works by several composers.
In Central and Eastern Europe he has conducted the Moravian Philharmonic,the Slovak State Philharmonic, Sudety Philharmonic in Wałbrzych, Poland, the State Philharmonic of Iaşi and Vidin State Philharmonic among others. He has also conducted the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra. Included have been performances, premieres and recordings of a wide range of contemporary music.
He conducted the European premiere of Gervase de Peyer’s new realization of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto and has also worked with Neil Black as soloist. Michael Rosenzweig is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Vidin State Philharmonic, in Vidin, Bulgaria
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