Artist description American pianist Carol Rosenberger’s distinguished recital programs and guest appearances with orchestras have carried her to most European and American capitals – New York, Boston, London, Paris Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin, Moscow and many others. Concert appearances in the year 2000 include New York’s Town Hall, Philharmonic Hall and the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky conservatory in Moscow, and the Throne Hall of Peter the Great’s Palace in St. Petersburg, all with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra.

Music Style Classical

Artist History Over 30 recordings on the Delos label have extended Rosenberger’s individual vision to a wide range of piano repertoire. Her recording of Howard Hanson’s Fantasy Variations on the Theme of Youth, with Gerard Schwarz and the New York Chamber Symphony, brought her a 1991 Grammy Nomination for Best Performance, Soloist with Orchestra. Rosenberger and Schwarz followed this recording with the rarely heard Hanson Piano Concerto with the Seattle Symphony. Together with Constantine Orbelian and the MCO, Rosenberger has recorded the premiere of Frank Bridge’s Chamber Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra (arr. C. Orbelian), an arrangement of the Quintet (1912), scheduled for release in early 2001. Rosenberger’s celebrated series of concept-recordings began with Water Music of the Impressionists, which was selected by Stereo Review as one of the Best Classical Compact Discs of all time, by Gramophone as a Recording of the Year, and by Billboard as an All-time Great Recording. The Impressionistic Night Moods was the successful sequel, and a second water-music disc, Singing on the Water, included Barcarolles written especially for the album by Richard Rodney Bennett and David Diamond.Rosenberger lead the way into another area of concept recording with her 1989 release Perchance to Dream, Lullabys for Children and Adults. One of the first classical CDs designed primarily for young people, Perchance struck a responsive chord with all ages. The American Record Guide called it "a splendid disc, to be treasured by young and old, and Fanfare commented that it is "the perfect gift among recordings for introducing a child to the intimacies and universality of music." Subsequent albums of relaxing piano music were Reverie, and Such Stuff as Dreams, the latter a lullaby album including themes from three major works of Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven heard in their entirety on a companion disc. She has also appeared as soloist on two recently-released orchestral CDs designed to be relaxing in nature, with Constantine Orbelian and the MCO in Mozart Adagios, and with James DePreist and the Monte Carlo Philharmonic in A French Romance.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Rosenberger studied in the U.S. with Edward Bredshall, Katja Andy and Webster Aitken; in Paris with the legendary Nadia Boulanger; and in Vienna with harpsichordist/Baroque scholar Eta Harich-Schneider and Schenker theorist Fraz Eibner. She ahs been the subject of articles in many of the nation’s leading newspapers and magazines, and in 1976 was chosen to represent America’s women concert artists by the President’s National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s year. Rosenberger has been on the faculties of the University of Southern California, California State University Northridge and Immaculate Heart College. She has given performance workshops for young musicians on campuses nationwide.Rosenberger has given numerous benefit performances for physical rehabilitation programs, an effort motivated by her own experience. Her official debut had been delayed ten years by an attack of paralytic polio at the outset of her career. She spent those ten years of seclusion and rehabilitation partly in Vienna, studying Baroque style and theory at the Academy, and absorbing German lieder, opera, instrumental music and literature.Upon Rosenberger’s return to the concert stage, not even her management, knew, at the beginning, about her long ordeal. As her story became known, she proved to be an inspiration to many. She feels that her successful struggle to overcome all traces of polio taught her a great deal that she has been able to pass on to others. She has taught workshops at USC and other universities, in the wide-ranging area of physical and psychological preparation for performance.In an enthusiastic review of a Rosenberger recital at Carnegie Hall, Mark Kanny, then Music Editor of FM Guide, had his own response to the artist/person he heart that night:" Her performances have an unforced quality that has nothing to do with lack of energy. Rather her playing draws on an inner calm. One hears this too when she talks about the problems of a young woman pianist, or about the need for a more engaging concert format…she has retained her humanity; her name is worth remembering."

Group Members Carol Rosenberger, Piano

Location Santa Monica, CA - USA

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