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Arnold Rosner is an American composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout the Americas and in Europe. He received his BA in mathematics at New York University in 1965, where he also received the highest honors in music, which he studied with Lejaren Hiller, Henri Pousseur, Allen Sapp, and Leo Smit. He received his MA in composition in 1970 and his PhD in theory in 1972 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Arnold Rosner has earned numerous awards and grants from ASCAP, Meet the Composer and other organizations and is the subject of a doctoral thesis by Paul Vanderwerf at Northwestern University.
Though mainly active as a teacher, at such institutions as Brooklyn College, the College of Staten Island, the University of Western Ontario, and Wagner College, Arnold Rosner briefly served as assistant music director at WNYC from 1970 to 1972. Since 1983, he has taught at Kingsborough Community College.
The music of Arnold Rosner is couched formally in a neo-classical idion, but he freely admits melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal methos of the modern school of composition. The Altoona Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado Philharmonic, the Denver Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the New York Motet Choir, the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the ensemble Pinotage, and other ensembles and orchestras have performed his music. |
