–Short Bio–
Joshua Rosenblum is a composer, conductor, pianist, musical director and arranger with wide-ranging experience in classical, contemporary and theater music. He has led the orchestras for thirteen Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, with a specialty in flying vehicles (Miss Saigon, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, How the Grinch Stole Christmas).
As a composer, Rosenblum has written extensively for both the theater and the concert hall. As a music journalist, he has contributed articles to Newsday and Stagebill, as well as over 400 CD and concert reviews for Opera News. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Music, he now teaches Composing for Musical Theater at his alma mater. Rosenblum is also the Founder and Music Director of the Pit Stop Players, an eclectic and genre-defying chamber orchestra.
–Long Bio–
Joshua Rosenblum is a composer, conductor, and pianist with wide–ranging experience in classical, contemporary and theater music.
For the theater, Rosenblum wrote the score to the cult hit musical Fermat's Last Tango, which had a critically acclaimed Off–Broadway production at the York Theatre Company, and received its international premiere at Lisbon’s Teatro da Trindade. He is also the composer and creator of BUSH IS BAD, the smash Off–Broadway musical revue, which Variety magazine called a sensation.
For the concert hall, Rosenblum has written pieces for trumpeter Philip Smith of the New York Philharmonic, flutist Kathleen Nester of the New Jersey Symphony, and the ground-breaking string quartet Ethel, among many others. Recordings of his instrumental music include Impetuosities—Music of Joshua Rosenblum, and Sundry Notes, both available from Albany Records. Rosenblum has also collaborated with choregrapher Chase Brock and the Chase Brock Experience on two ballet scores.
Also a conductor and musical director, Rosenblum has led the orchestras for thirteen Broadway and Off–Broadway shows, including Miss Saigon, Wonderful Town, Anything Goes, Falsettos, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Other conducting credits include guest appearances with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the American Repertory Ballet. He has also conducted world premiere productions for the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the B.A.M. Next Wave Festival, Playwrights Horizons, and Lincoln Center Theater, as well as the soundtracks to five major motion pictures.
As a pianist, Rosenblum has appeared with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, the New York Chamber Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony, the American Symphony Orchestra, and in solo and chamber recitals at Symphony Space. He also performs frequently with Daniel Rodriguez (the singing policeman
), both as conductor and pianist. With cellist Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf, he inaugurated the popular Not a Recital series at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York. Additionally, he and his wife, soprano Joanne Lessner, have concertized extensively in recitals of art songs, cabaret songs, and Rosenblum’s original compositions.
Rosenblum is the Founder and Music Director of the Pit Stop Players, an eclectic and genre-defying chamber orchestra. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Music, he now teaches Composing for Musical Theater at his alma mater. Rosenblum and Lessner are the proud parents of fourteen–year–old Julian and nine–year–old Phoebe.