Andrew Rosenblum
Pianist - Harpsichordist
2019/20 Season
8/17/19: Three Notch'd Road, Glorious Creation at Garth Newel Music Center, Hot Springs, VA. 5 pm. Music by Fontana, Bingen, Monteverdi, Biber, Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, Castaldi, Strozzi, and Ingegneri.
8/18/19: Three Notch'd Road, Devotion and Delight at Garth Newel Music Center, Hot Springs, VA. 3 pm. Music by Purcell, Ravenscroft, Playford, J.J. Niles, Peter Walker, Matteis, Händel, William Walker, and Dowland.
9/12/19: The Warmth of Other Suns with cellist Seth Parker Woods, The Phillips Collection Music Room, Washington, D.C. 6:30 pm. Music by George Walker, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Alvin Singleton, Nathalie Joachim, and Tania León.
10/7/19: Haymarket Opera Company, Arias and Ale at Revolution Brewing, Chicago, IL. 6-8 pm http://www.haymarketopera.org/ale
11/7/19: American Woman with Fourth Coast Ensemble pianist Maria Sumareva, saxophonist J. Michael Weiss Holmes, and flutist Marie Micol Bennett, Woman's Club of Evanston, Evanston, IL. 7:30 pm. Music by Andrea Clearfield, Lori Laitman, Amy Beach, Florence Price, Marian Bauer, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Miriam Gideon, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Jennifer Higdon, and Jake Heggie. http://www.fourthcoastensemble.com/americanwoman.html
11/9/19: American Woman with Fourth Coast Ensemble and pianist Maria Sumareva, saxophonist J. Michael Weiss Holmes, and flutist Marie Micol Bennett, St. Paul and the Redeemer, Chicago, IL. 7:30 pm. http://www.fourthcoastensemble.com/americanwoman.html
11/15/19: Third Coast Baroque, The French Connection, Nichols Concert Hall, Evanston, IL. 7:30 pm. Music of Rameau, F. Couperin, Forqueray, Marais, and Leclair.
11/16/19: Third Coast Baroque, The French Connection, The Chicago Temple, Chicago, IL. 5pm Music of Rameau, F. Couperin, Forqueray, Marais, and Leclair.
11/17/19: Third Coast Baroque, The French Connection, Wentz Concert Hall, Naperville, IL. 3 pm. Music of Rameau, F. Couperin, Forqueray, Marais, and Leclair.
12/5/19: Memoria Nova Ensemble (Shanna Pranaitis Gutierrez-flutes, Andrew Rosenblum piano), Roosevelt University's Ganz Hall, Chicago, IL. 7:30 pm. Music by Debussy, Messiaen, Denisov, Koechlin, Saariaho, Sciarrino, and a Roosevelt student composer.
Free admission.
12/14/19: Apollo Chorus of Chicago, Harris Theater, Chicago, IL. 7 pm. Händel's Messiah.
12/15/19: Apollo Chorus of Chicago, Harris Theater, Chicago, IL. 3 pm. Händel's Messiah.
1/23/20: Memoria Nova Ensemble (Shanna Pranaitis Gutierrez-flutes, Andrew Rosenblum-piano), Packard Hall at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. 7:30 pm. Music by Denisov, Messiaen, Koechlin, Sciarrino, Murail, Debussy, and Saariaho.
2/5/20: Recital with violinist Heather Wittels, Roosevelt University's Ganz Hall, Chicago, IL. 7:30 pm, free admission. Music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Arvo Pärt, Clara Schumann, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
2/12/20: Henry Fogel Presents, with violinist Heather Wittels, the 19th Century Club, Oak Park, IL. 7:30 pm. Music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Arvo Pärt, Clara Schumann, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
2/22/20: Memoria Nova Ensemble (Shanna Pranaitis Gutierrez-flutes, Andrew Rosenblum-piano), performs The Space Traversed on Kaleidoscope MusArt's Echoes of Time season. Granada Presbyterian Church, Coral Gables, FL. 7:30 pm. https://kaleidoscopemusart.com/echoesoftime/
3/5/20: Recital with cellist Seth Parker Woods, University of Chicago Tea Time Concerts, Fulton Recital Hall, Chicago, IL. 4:30 pm.
3/27/20: Chicago Chorale, St. John Passion, St. Michael Catholic Church, Chicago, IL. 7:30 pm.
4/25/20: Kaleidoscope MusArt Peeks Into the Infinite, Maurice Gusman Concert Hall, Coral Gables, FL. 7:30 pm. Music by Bartók,
Beethoven, Ferguson, Liszt, Lutyens, and Vine. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peeks-into-the-infinite-tickets-74158886225
5/18/20: Piano Duo recital with Maria Sumareva, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library Chamber Series, La Jolla, CA. 7:30 pm. Music by George Walker, Galina Ustvolskaya, György Ligeti, Alfred Schnittke, and Claude Debussy.
http://www.ljathenaeum.org/event/201e621fb23a08d0fb7b75559a743967
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
To listen to YouTube videos of various past performances, click here.
To listen to audio samples from past performances and recordings, click here.
6/18/20: Piano Duo recital with Maria Sumareva, International Festival Days of New Music, "Serghei Lunchevici" National Philharmonic, Chisinau, Moldova. Music by George Walker, Galina Ustvolskaya, György Ligeti, Alfred Schnittke, and Ghenadie Ciobanu.