Collection: Morris Rosenzweig

Morris Rosenzweig was born October 1, 1952 in New Orleans, where he grew up among the tailors, merchants, and strong-willed women of an extended family which has lived in southern Louisiana since the mid 1890s. His catalog of features works for orchestra, various chamber ensembles, compositions for live instruments and electronics, two song cycles, two piano cycles, solo pieces, and one opera, Box and Cox. These works have been widely presented throughout the United States and Europe as well as in Japan and Argentina. These works have been widely presented throughout the United States, as well as in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, Argentina, Mexico and Israel. Among the noted ensembles who have brought these works to life are Speculum Musicae, Piano and Percussion-Stuttgart, The New York New Music Ensemble, the Chamber Players of the League-ISCM, EARPLAY, NOVA, The Orchestra of the League, Philippe Entremont with the New Orleans Symphony, and Joseph Silverstein with the Utah Symphony.

Mr. Rosenzweig’s recordings include 6 CDs on Albany Records (Troy 907, Troy 710), Centaur (2103), New World/CRI (705), and New World/CRI (787). His honors include those from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Koussevitzky, Argosy, and Fromm Foundations, Chamber Music America have commissioned several of his works, and he has received support from the Alice M. Ditson Fund. Mr. Rosenzweig is Artistic Director of the Louis Moreau Institute for New Music Performance, New Orleans. Having previously taught at New York University and Queens College, he is now Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Utah.