2012 Competition Judges
Biography of Marcy Rosen, Cellist
Artistic Director since the inception of the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival, Marcy Rosen is among the most respected of contemporary performing artists. She has collaborated with the world’s finest musicians, including Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Andras Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida, Peter Serkin, Isaac Stern, Robert Mann, Sandor Vegh, Kim Kashkashian, Jessye Norman, Lucy Shelton, Charles Neidich and the Juilliard, Emerson, and Orion Quartets.
She has played in recital and with orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout Canada, Austria, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and all fifty of the United States. In the 2011-12 season she appeared for the first time on stages in Beijing and Shanghai and at the Seoul Arts Center in Korea. Ms. Rosen is a founding member of the ensemble La Fenice and of the renowned Mendelssohn String Quartet, which toured internationally for three decades. Long associated with the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, she first attended that festival in 1975, and has taken part in 20 “Musicians from Marlboro” tours and in concerts celebrating the 40th, 50th and 60th Anniversaries of the Festival.
Currently Ms. Rosen is Professor of Cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, and she serves on the faculty at the Mannes College of Music, New School University.
