Michael Rosenzweig, born 1951 in Cape Town, South Africa, is a composer, conductor, choral trainer and director, multi-instrumentalist and jazz musician.
[10] Maestro Michael Rosenzweig has established himself over more than forty years as a composer of note, having won many major prizes and awards, the highest being the DAAD Berliner Kunstler Fellowship in 1990, an award given to composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, Krzysztof Penderecki, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luciano Berio, György Ligeti, Alberto Ginastera, and others of this eminence.
[14] Commissioners include the London Sinfonietta, the Arditti Quartet, State Philharmonic of Iasi, Divertimenti String Orchestra and BBC Radio 3.
Performers include the RLPO, Arditti Quartet, London Sinfonietta, and the State Philharmonic of Iasi.
Works have been commissioned by the BBC, the London Sinfonietta,[15] the Divertimenti String Orchestra, and Nina Beilina.