Growing up, he also studied chamber music with other renowned teachers who joined Piatigorsky and the institute including Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose.
While a student at the University of Southern California, he became a founding member and eventually principal cellist of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
[2] Nathaniel Rosen won the coveted Naumburg Competition for cello, and presented recitals in London and New York.
Although he was a finalist in the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1966 at the age of 17, he returned in 1978 to win the Gold Medal,[1] thrusting him into the forefront of the classical music circuit.
He has been a member of the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music[1] and also enjoys engagements with the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.