Andrew Rosenblum
Pianist - Harpsichordist
Harpsichord Recordings
A Chicago-based pianist and harpsichordist, Andrew Rosenblum is passionate about exploring great pieces of music from across every period of composition. As a harpsichordist, he won second prize in both the 2018 Leipzig International Bach Competition and the 2017 Prague Spring International Music Competition. An experienced collaborator, Rosenblum has been on the staff of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Northwestern University, and has performed with the Leipzig Baroque Orchestra, Collegium 1704, Music of the Baroque Orchestra, Haymarket Opera, Third Coast Baroque, and Three Notch'd Road. He is a member of the Harpsichord and Piano Faculty of the Heifetz International Music Institute.
"His beautiful shaping of phrases, his sense of color and inflection, his incisive rhythmic impulse, plus his fabulous technique all combined to help us figure out and learn this new score. We highly recommend Andrew Rosenblum as a fabulous pianist and a musician of depth and integrity."
Cellist Sharon Robinson and Violinist Jaime Laredo
Photo Credit: Aleksandr Karjaka at Karjaka Studios.
2020-2021 Season
I am enormously grateful to have had the opportunity to participate in several online performances during this pandemic - for organizations such as Heifetz International Music Institute, Kaleidoscope MusArt, and First Night Morris County. Please enjoy this performance of Beethoven's op. 126 Bagatelles from Kaleidoscope MusArt's "Peeks Into The Infinite II" Concert on 10/24/20.here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.
Upcoming Events
Several performances from both the 2019-2020 season and the 2020-2021 season have been postponed, with dates still uncertain. Upcoming performances for the 2020-2021 season include a radio broadcast for the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LACMA) in spring 2021, and a performance at Strathmore's Music in the Mansion series in summer 2021, both with cellist Seth Parker Woods. The duo concert with pianist Maria Sumareva for the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library Chamber Music Series in La Jolla, CA, which was originally scheduled for May 2020, will now take place in the 2021-22 season.
I am fortunate to play with many amazing chamber music partners, and look forward to the time when chamber music concerts and rehearsals are back in full swing. Here are some of the amazing people, ensembles, and organizations that I have the honor of making music with. Please consider checking out their websites and supporting their work!
Maria Sumareva, pianist
Seth Parker Woods, cellist
Memoria Nova Ensemble - A collaboration with flutist Shanna Pranaitis
Heather Wittels, violinist
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In May 2017, Andrew won second prize in the in the 69th annual Prague Spring International Music Competition, harpsichord category. He was also awarded The Czech Music Fund Foundation Prize for best performance of the commissioned work, Harpsycho, by Petr Wajsar.
The prize-winning performance of Harypsycho can be heard starting at 42:58 of Andrew's semifinal round at the following link: https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/video-v-prestizni-soutezi-prazskeho-jara-souperili-mladi-cembaliste-zname-viteze-5606092.
Here are the links to Andrew's final round, where he played Bach's Concerto for Flute, Violin, Harpsichord, and Strings in A minor, BWV 1044, in cooperation with members of Collegium 1704, and Bohuslav Martinů's Concerto for Harpsichord and Small Orchestra H. 246, in cooperation with the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vojtěch Spurný.
Bach Concerto BWV 1044: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwq-kkJNNqY&t=76m7s
Martinů Concerto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwq-kkJNNqY&t=99m55s
To listen to YouTube videos of various past performances, click here.
To listen to audio samples from past performances and recordings, click here.
To see the full season calendar, click here.
To see the full season calendar, click here.