
Richard Rosenberg, artistic director & conductor, is one of a handful of American conductors whose experience ranges from contemporary music to historical performance practice. Under his baton, Richard’s editions of music by the 19th-century Louisiana composers Edmond Dédé, Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Lucién Lambert, as well as music by Jerome Moross, are available on five compact discs on the Naxos/Marco Polo label as well as his best-selling recording of jazz-inspired concerti including premieres of music by George Gershwin, James Price Johnson, Harry Reser and Dana Suesse.
Richard has performed as guest conductor in Asia, throughout the Americas and Europe, including the Academy of London; Ann Arbor Symphony; Ars Musica Baroque; Austin Symphony; Ballet Austin; Bangor Symphony; Orkestra Academic Başkent; Bremerton Symphony; Charlotte Symphony; ; Dubrovnik Symphony; Dubuque Symphony; Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra; Gulf Coast Symphony; Juneau Symphony; Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra; League/ISCM; Las Vegas Symphony; Memphis Symphony; Miami City Ballet; Mid-Texas Symphony; Naples Philharmonic; Orquesta Sinfónica de Bahía Blanca; Orquesta Sinfónica de Mar del Plata; The Festival Música nas Montanhas; Pensacola Symphony; Pro Musica Nipponia; Rapides Symphony; Rochester Philharmonic; Sacramento Symphony; Santa Fe Stages; Smetana Philharmonic; Orchestra Sinfonica della Fondazione “Tito Schipa” di Lecce; I Musici di Praha; Kärntner Symphony; Orquesta Filarmonica de Montevideo; Symphonischen Akademie Patentorchester München; Torun Symphony; Vancouver Island Symphony; The Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de Caracas in Venezuela. With the violist Yizhak Schotten, Richard recorded a disc of works for viola and chamber orchestra for Crystal Records, and he directed American contemporary music for the Opus One label. Richard conducted the groundbreaking collaborative concert of an American orchestral ensemble and an ensemble of traditional Japanese instruments, Pro Musica Nipponia, in Detroit’s Orchestra Hall. The concert included music written for this cooperative experiment by Minoru Miki, one of Japan’s preeminent composers.
On two weeks’ notice, Richard led the critically-acclaimed Schleswig-Holstein tour of Arleen Auger and The Classical Band, a New York-based early instrument orchestra. Richard conducted two performances of Gustav Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 3 with the Orchestra Sinfonica della Fondazione “Tito Schipa” di Lecce in Italy, and was invited to return for additional concerts to lead the premiere of Nicola Scardicchio’s Mosé and music of Dave Brubeck. He has led residencies at Oberlin College, the University of Kansas at Lawrence and Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. His recent engagements include concerts with the Krakow Philharmonic, Muzička akademija Zagreb, Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais e Oeiras and the Orquestra de Camara Eleazar de Carvalho.
He received a Rackham Fellowship to work with Sir Roger Norrington and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. His training also includes studies at Yale University with Otto-Werner Muller, the Peabody Institute-Johns Hopkins University with Frederik Prausnitz, the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Herbert von Karajan, the Aspen Music Festival with Paul Vermel, at the City University of New York with Fritz Jahoda, Cincinnati College-Conservatory with Gerhard Samuel, Queens College of CUNY, and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Franco Ferrara.
In addition to his work as a conductor and teacher, Richard is also a recording producer, chansonnier, editor and arranger. He has given several performances of H. K. Gruber’s pandemonium, Frankenstein!! as both conductor and chanssonier to critical acclaim. He has produced two compact discs of music with jazz legend Dave Brubeck, and two discs of Mozart piano concerti, for the Naxos Records label. Richard’s numerous orchestrations and his corrected editions of J.S. Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion, George Gershwin’s A Rhapsody in Blue, Arnold Schonberg’s Verklärte Nacht (which will be released in 2022 with Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen for Centaur Records) and the complete orchestral music of Gottschalk (which he has just prepared for publication) have received numerous performances.
His students presently hold positions with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic, Krakow Philharmonic, Union Symphony, Virginia Opera, Hot Springs Music Festival, Pittsburgh Symphony, Orchèstre Radio France and the Nashville, Saint Louis, Toulon, and Savannah Symphonies.
