Music Composition Faculty: Steven Rosenhaus
Website: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~slr3/compositions.html
Dr. Steven L. Rosenhaus is a composer, lyricist, arranger, conductor, author, educator, and performer. His concert music has been called "clever, deftly constructed and likable" by The New York Times, and Back Stage magazine has called his music and lyrics for the off-Broadway show Critic "sprightly, upbeat, and in the ballad repertory, simply lovely." His works have been played throughout the world by such performers as the United States Navy Band, the U.S. Naval Academy Band, the 108th Army Reserve Band, pianist Laura Leon, violinist Florian Mayer, conductor Milko Kersten and the Dresden Sinfonietta, the New Hudson Saxophone Quartet, the Meridian String Quartet, and conductor Paul Popescu and the Ploiesti Symphony Orchestra (Romania). Steven Rosenhaus is a Yamaha Piano Artist, and has received numerous awards and grants from ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, and Meet The Composer, Inc.
Dr. Rosenhaus teaches classical composition, writing musical theater (music, lyrics, and libretti), and popular songwriting. In past years he taught "Introduction to Music Publishing and Printing" and coordinated "First Stages," staged readings of musical theater works in progress by NYU composition majors. Dr. Rosenhaus' additional interests include post-tonal theory. Dr. Rosenhaus holds a Ph.D. from NYU in Composition/Theory, and M.A. and B.A. degrees from Queens College (CUNY); his composition mentors included George Perle and opera composer Hugo Weisgall.
Dr. Rosenhaus is the co-author, with Dr. Allen Cohen, of Writing Musical Theater (2006, Palgrave Macmillan). In addition, Dr. Rosenhaus has written music for a variety of genres, including two off-Broadway musicals, incidental music for several plays, two film scores, and concert music for everything from solo instrument works to music for symphony orchestra and symphonic concert band.
Recent works include: For the Gipsy in My Soul for four harps; Bang!, The Brave and the Bold, and Celebration Overture for concert band; Undercurrents for saxophone quartet; In the Cave of Aeolus for flute quartet; Symphony for Band ("Academy"); and Waltz Rhapsody for piano. He has also written the score for the science-fiction film Ashes by David Mack, which was shown at the 2002 Angelika New FilmMakers series in NYC; Strange Loops (String Quartet No. 1), which was featured in an article in the May 2007 issue of Strings magazine; the musical Free-the-Music.Com, in collaboration with Bo Ayars (music) and William Strauss (book/lyrics); and incidental music for the docudrama Secrets of Columbine.
Dr. Rosenhaus' most recent commission is The Etude Project (series, in progress as of 2007) for the United States Navy School of Music. These are graded performance etudes for chamber ensembles (wind quintet, brass quintet, percussion ensemble, etc.). The first volume is to be published October, 2007, by Music-Print Productions (distributed by Masters Music). Dr. Rosenhaus currently has over one hundred original works and arrangements in print with E.F. Kalmus/Masters Music, Theodore Presser, Music-Print Productions, and others; recordings of his works can be found on the Richardson, Capstone, Musical Tapestries, and MPP labels.
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