Marcy Rosen

Biographical Information:

Marcy Rosen is Professor of cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She also serves as Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Live concert series.

Marcy Rosen is recognized as one of today’s most respected cellists. Hailed as “one of the intimate art’s abiding treasures” by Los Angeles Time music critic Herbert Glass and described as “a New York legend of the cello” by the New Yorker, she has performed in recital and with orchestras throughout the world.

She made her concerto debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of eighteen and has since appeared with the Dallas Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Caramoor Festival Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Jupiter Symphony, Concordia Chamber Orchestra and the Tokyo Symphony. In New York she has performed at prestigious venues like Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street “Y” and Merkin Concert Hall, and in Washington D.C., at the Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks and the Phillips Collection.

Sought after for her riveting and informative Master Classes, she has been a guest of the Curtis Institute of Music, the New England Conservatory, the Juilliard School, the San Francisco Conservatory, the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China, the Seoul Arts Center in Korea and the Cartagena International Music Festival in Colombia. In 2024 she was named Artistic Director of the Evnin Rising Stars program at the Caramoor Center for the Arts,

Ms. Rosen has collaborated with the world’s finest musicians, including Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Andras Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida, Jonathan Biss, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Isaac Stern and Jessye Norman, among others, and with the Aizuri, Catalyst, Daedelus, Emerson, Juilliard and Orion Quartets. She is a founding member of La Fenice as well as the Mendelssohn String Quartet. With the Mendelssohn she was Artist-in-Residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts and for nine years served as Blodgett-Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University. Since first attending the Marlboro Festival in 1975, she has taken part in 25 “Musicians from Marlboro” tours and has performed in concerts celebrating the 40th, 50th, and 60th anniversaries of the festival.

Since 1986 Ms. Rosen has been Artistic Director of Chesapeake Chamber Music in Maryland and she is an artist member of Music for Food, a musician-led initiative to fight hunger in our local communities. 

Ms. Rosen’s most recent recording of Barber Cello Sonata, Schumann Fastasiestücke and Chopin Cello Sonata with pianist Diane Walsh, will be released on the Bridge label on November 7, 2025.

Office:

Music Building 356

Phone:
718-997-3868

Email:
marcy.rosen@qc.cuny.edu

Website:
www.marcyrosen.com