Harold Rosenbaum

Dr. Harold Rosenbaum is the author of the critically acclaimed A Practical Guide to Choral Conducting which was published by Routledge. He is also the founder/conductor of the all-professional New York Virtuoso Singers (nyvirtuoso.org) and the all-volunteer Canticum Novum Singers (canticumnovum.org). He has conducted over 1,800 concerts and 575 world premieres (plus dozens of American and New York premieres) and has commissioned 120 composers and counting. Retired from teaching at The Juilliard School, Queens College, The University at Buffalo (Professor Emeritus), and Adelphi University, he has edited for G. Schirmer (The Harold Rosenbaum Choral Series – (haroldrosenbaum.com/choral.shtml) and for Peermusic Classical (The New Voices Series (haroldrosenbaum.com/choral.shtml). He is a recipient of the Ditson Conductor’s Award (ditsonfund.org/conductors-award) established in 1945; the only other choral conductors to have received this award are Robert Shaw and Gregg Smith. He is also a recipient of the American Composer Alliance Laurel Leaf Award, ASCAP's Victor Herbert Award, the ASCAP/Chorus American Award for Adventuresome Programming of Contemporary Music (four times), and a winner of Chorus America's American Choral Work Performance Award. Over the course of his lengthy career, Dr. Rosenbaum has received unpublished choral scores from approximately 12,500 composers. He has lectured to, and worked with, composers for many years at the ASCAP headquarters in New York City, the American Music Center, at universities throughout the country, winners of his many choral composition competitions, and while mentoring the 60 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award and BMI Young Composer Award recipients, all whom he commissioned. He is the founder of the Harold Rosenbaum Choral Conducting Institute (haroldrosenbaum.com/institute.shtml).