Sylvia Rosenberg Artistic Advisor

Sylvia Rosenberg has performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad and has played with major orchestras, including the Chicago, National, and London symphonies, the Royal Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, New Philharmonia, Berlin Radio, and all the BBC Orchestras. Festival appearances include the Edinburgh Festival, Bath Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Banff Centre, Sarasota Music Festival, and performances as a member of the faculty of the Young Artists’ Institute of the Ravinia Festival. Ms. Rosenberg is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she studied with Ivan Galamian. She has also worked with Szymon Goldberg, and, on a Fulbright grant in Paris, with Nadia Boulanger. She studied chamber music with the Juilliard String Quartet, Rudolf Serkin, Alexander Schneider, and Mieczyslaw Horzowski and participated in Pablo Casals’s master classes at the Marlboro Music Festival. Ms. Rosenberg lived in London for many years, during which time, in addition to an active concert career, she taught at the Royal College of Music and the University of Surrey. An Aspen Music Festival faculty member since 1980, she has taught at the Eastman School of Music, the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and Indiana University and was for three years a visiting professor at the Royal College of Music. In the spring of 1999, she gave master classes at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Beijing and Shanghai conservatories. She has also given frequent master classes at Southern Methodist University, Oberlin College, New England Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, University of Southern California, McGill University, Jerusalem Music Center, Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Royal Danish Conservatory, Royal Northern College of Music, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She concertizes throughout the United States and Europe and is heard often on the BBC. Recently she appeared as soloist with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies at the St. Magnus Festival. She is currently on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music and gives an annual series of master classes at the Royal Academy of Music in London.