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Long Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mathew Rosenblum\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>compositions offer\u00a0\u201can ear-buzzing flood of sound, rich in unusual overtones\u201d (The Boston Globe), The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u00a0<\/em>proclaimed that his work\u00a0Mobius Loop<\/em> was \u201crichly layered\u2026 and that it \u201cshimmered with vibrancy.\u201d A wide array of groups have commissioned, performed, and recorded his music such as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rasch\u00e8r Saxophone Quartet, the Calmus Ensemble of Leipzig, the Harry Partch Institute, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, FLUX Quartet, Mantra Percussion, Music from China as well as many others. Using a variety of tuning systems, his work does not live within traditional boundaries, creating a compellingly fresh landscape.<\/p>\n

Rosenblum spearheaded the highly successful\u00a0Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival<\/em> at The Andy Warhol Museum where his new work, Last Round (ostatnia runda)<\/em>\u00a0composed for FLUX Quartet and Mantra Percussion was premiered. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em> called it “impressive,\u201d \u201cvisceral\u201d and \u201ctribal.\u201d The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>said of the N.Y. premiere of Rosenblum\u2019s work, Falling<\/em>, that it \u201covershadowed\u201d everything else on the program, it was \u201crapt, fretful, eerily suspended.\u201d George Grella of New York Classical Review<\/em> stated: \u201cFalling<\/em> blends electronics, spoken word, and live music more effectively than most other such efforts. The piece compresses foreground and background into a rich, floating mass\u2026 the path into the heart of the piece is both clear and infinite.\u201d<\/p>\n

His works have been performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia\u00a0including\u00a0at\u00a0the ISCM World Music Days in Oslo,\u00a0the\u00a0Gewandhaus\u00a0in Leipzig, the China-ASEAN Music Week in Nanning, the\u00a0Tonhalle\u00a0in D\u00fcsseldorf, the Bing Theater in LA, Prince Mahidol Hall in Bangkok, Sala\u00a0Nezahualc\u00f3yotl\u00a0in Mexico City, and at the Sonic Boom Festival, the Kitchen, Merkin\u00a0Hall, Symphony Space, the Guggenheim Museum, and Miller Theatre in New York City.<\/p>\n

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In 2024 he was a Visiting Guest Composer at Bang on a Can\u2019s LOUD Weekend. In 2023 and 2009 he\u00a0was a Senior Faculty Composer at the June in Buffalo Festival. In 2015 he was\u00a0a featured composer at the Thailand International Composition Festival.\u00a0Other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, four Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Music Fellowship Grants, a Heinz Endowments Creative Heights Award, three Fromm Foundation Commissions, a National Endowment for the Arts Music Fellowship Grant, a Barlow Endowment Commission, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship Grant. He has also received awards and fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Institute of Contemporary American Music, the Rockefeller Foundation, BMI, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi\u00a0Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hambidge Center, and Yaddo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

He received degrees in composition from the New England Conservatory of Music and Princeton University\u00a0and is co-director of the Music on the Edge new music series and former Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Pittsburgh. His works appear on the MODE, New World Records, Cantaloupe Music, Albany, New Focus Recordings, BMOP\/sound, Capstone, Opus One, Blue Griffin, and CRI Emergency Music labels and is published by C.F. Peters Corporation and Plurabelle Music (distributed by Subito Music Corporation).<\/p>\n

Medium Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mathew Rosenblum\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0compositions offer\u00a0\u201can ear-buzzing flood of sound, rich in unusual overtones\u201d\u00a0(The Boston Globe).\u00a0<\/em>A wide array of groups have commissioned, performed and recorded his music such as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,\u00a0the\u00a0Rasch\u00e8r\u00a0Saxophone Quartet, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble,\u00a0FLUX Quartet,\u00a0Mantra Percussion\u00a0as well as many others. Using a variety of tuning systems, his work does not live within traditional boundaries, creating a compellingly fresh landscape. His music has been performed throughout the world including\u00a0at the\u00a0Gewandhaus\u00a0in Leipzig, Prince Mahidol Hall in Bangkok,\u00a0the China-ASEAN Music Week in Nanning, the\u00a0Tonhalle\u00a0in D\u00fcsseldorf,Sala\u00a0Nezahualc\u00f3yotl\u00a0in Mexico City,\u00a0and at Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Hall and Miller Theatre in New York City. Honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, three Fromm Foundation Commissions,\u00a0a National Endowment for the Arts Music Fellowship Grant\u00a0and a Barlow Endowment Commission. He received degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music and Princeton University\u00a0and is\u00a0co-director of the Music on the Edge new music series and former Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Pittsburgh. His works appear on the MODE, New World Records, Cantaloupe Music, Albany, New Focus Recordings, BMOP\/sound, Capstone, Opus One, Blue Griffin, and CRI Emergency Music labels and is published by C.F. Peters Corporation and Plurabelle Music (distributed by Subito Music Corporation).\u00a0www.mathewrosenblum.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Short Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mathew Rosenblum\u2019s\u00a0works have been performed\u00a0by\u00a0the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the\u00a0Rasch\u00e8r\u00a0Saxophone Quartet,\u00a0the Boston Modern Orchestra Project\u00a0and many others, and appear on the\u00a0MODE, New World Records, New Focus Recordings and BMOP\/sound labels. His\u00a0honors\u00a0include a Guggenheim Fellowship, three Fromm Foundation Commissions,\u00a0a National Endowment for the Arts Music Fellowship Grant, and a Barlow Endowment Commission. Using a variety of tuning systems, his work does not live within traditional boundaries, creating a compellingly fresh landscape. Rosenblum received degrees in composition from the New England Conservatory of Music and Princeton University.<\/p>\n

Artistic Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n

The music I compose falls into the general category of \u201ccontemporary classical music\u201d but my influences are significantly wider and more varied. My work reflects an engagement with jazz and freer improvisational forms as well as a contemplation of world music. My work is also shaped by microtonality, I create tuning systems that fuse the normal 12 notes with added notes derived from the natural overtone series, including 21-note-to-the-octave systems of my own design. Through repetition, my music sets up larger cyclic rhythms that work to disrupt the linear flow of time. I also work extensively with the sound and rhythm of language and am interested in how languages blend or intersect. Through these compositional tools I explore a wide range of topics including physical and psychological descent and transformation (\u201cFalling\u201d), to the mining of one\u2019s cultural roots to engage serious contemporary problems (\u201cRedDust,\u201d \u201cLament\/Witches\u2019 Sabbath\u201d). Through the juxtaposition of different tuning systems and stylistic references, I explore how seemingly independent musical voices and traditions may be woven together into a newly expressive whole. In all of my work, I try to both engage and challenge the listener and avoid predictability at all cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long Bio Mathew Rosenblum\u2019s\u00a0compositions offer\u00a0\u201can ear-buzzing flood of sound, rich in unusual overtones\u201d (The Boston Globe), The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u00a0proclaimed that his work\u00a0Mobius Loop was \u201crichly layered\u2026 and that it \u201cshimmered with vibrancy.\u201d A wide array of groups have commissioned, performed, and recorded his music such as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, … <\/p>\n

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