{"id":2163,"date":"2024-09-06T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/?post_type=profile&p=2163"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:42:20","slug":"thomas-rosenberg","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/facultystaff\/thomas-rosenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rosenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Rosenberg is nationally known as a dynamic performer, chamber music coach, and teacher. A resident of Saint Paul, Minnesota, his activities include numerous solo and chamber music recitals, performances with the The Isles Ensemble and performances as an extra musician with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Rosenberg was recipient of the 2025 National Arts Advocate of the Year from Chamber Music America. He also has received top chamber music prizes at the Munich (Germany), Portsmouth (England) and Chicago Discovery Competitions, is a three-time Naumburg Chamber Music Award finalist and prestigious McKnight Performing Artist Fellowship Award. Since 1981, he has been Artistic Director of the renowned Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition<\/a> through which he is a recipient of the 2007 Indiana Governor\u2019s Arts Award, the highest honor in the arts from that state. Mr. Rosenberg was a founding member of the highly acclaimed Chester String Quartet with whom he made numerous recordings and for
twenty years, appeared on concert stages and live radio coast to coast in the United States, Canada, Central America and Europe. He has been solo cello of the New York Chamber Ensemble performing in all of the major concert halls in NYC, performed with jazz greats Charlie Hayden and Al Foster in Carnegie Hall and appeared at many music festivals including Aspen, Newport, Banff, South Mountain, Cape May, the Grand Tetons, and the International Music Festival in San Jose, Costa Rica. Chester Quartet recordings can be found on The Koch International, Chesky, New Albion and CRI labels and Spotify. As a soloist, he has been noted by the Boston Globe as displaying \u201cbeautifully inflected, noble playing with a gorgeous dark tone.\u201d He performs on a rare cello by Lorenzo Storioni made in Cremona, Italy in 1794.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


He is currently on the faculties of Carleton College and Macalester College teaching cello and coaching chamber music, maintains The Opus 1911 Music Studio<\/a>, a busy private studio of pre- college cellists and chamber ensembles featuring many of the region\u2019s most outstanding young artists and is Director of the Saint Paul Chamber Music Academy (pre-college) and has served as String Chamber Music Coordinator and primary chamber music coach for the University of Minnesota School of Music. His students have won many awards, regularly gain acceptance into top music schools, and over thirty students from his studio have performed on NPR\u2019s \u201cFrom the Top\u201d. They are in major symphonies, chamber music ensembles, Managing Artistic Director of the NY Philharmonic, Director of Education for Jazz at Lincoln Center and successful in countless other professions. Tom is recipient of the 2003-4 \u201cMaster Studio Teacher Award\u201d from the Minnesota chapter of the American String Teachers Association and has also been named “Arts Educator of the Year” by the Michigan- Indiana Arts and Sciences Council. Tom has been a featured \u201cblogger\u201d and host of Live Internet \u201cCelloChats\u201d on CelloBello<\/a>, has led chamber music \u201cinformances\u201d to audiences around the US, and has presented a series of lectures on the Beethoven String Quartets. During summers he has taught cello and coached chamber music at music centers such as the Tanglewood Institute, The Quartet Program where he has also been Associate Director, Icicle Creek, Bravo, and the Midwest Young Artists Summer Chamber Music Camp. Recent masterclasses have been at The Cleveland Institute of Music, The Oberlin Conservatory, Northwestern University, Boston University, Boston Conservatory, Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory, Temple University, Texas Tech University, Ohio State University, The Columbus Chamber Music Connection and Suzuki Program, The Interlochen Arts Academy, the Music Institute of Chicago and Webster University in Saint Louis, and the Gifted Music School in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Tom is a graduate of Oberlin and the Eastman School of Music where he was teaching assistant to both Paul Katz
and Laurence Lesser. Other teachers include Richard Kapuscinski, Alan Harris, Alta Mayer, and for chamber
music, members of the Budapest, Juilliard, Tokyo, Guarneri, and Cleveland Quartets. (www.tomrosenbergmusic.com<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":805,"featured_media":2495,"template":"","class_list":["post-2163","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2937,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2163\/revisions\/2937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}