Joyce
Rosenzweig performs as a pianist and conductor in concerts throughout the United
States, Canada, Europe, and Israel.
A native of Houston, she has been a featured soloist with the New Orleans
Philharmonic and the Texas Festival Orchestra, and has appeared in recital at
the National Holocaust Museum and Corcoran Gallery in Washington. D.C., the Dame
Myra Hess Concert series in Chicago, the Bronfman Centre in Montreal, Yale
University, the University of Pennsylvania, and in Carnegie Hall in New York.
She has collaborated with ensembles from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
and the New York Philharmonic, and has participated in the Banff Centre for the
Arts (Canada), the Cleveland Orchestra’s Blossom Music Festival, the Round Top
Music Festival (Texas), the Ashkenaz Festival of New Yiddish Culture (Toronto),
the Chicago and Charlotte Yiddish Institutes, the North American Jewish Choral
Festival, and the Franz Schubert Institute (Vienna), where she was awarded first
prize in lieder accompaniment.
Most recently she performed concerts in Prague, Budapest, Jerusalem,
Tel-Aviv, Amsterdam, Boston, and Halifax.
A
leading figure in Jewish music and in the education of cantors and synagogue
musicians, Ms. Rosenzweig serves as Artist-in-Residence at Hebrew Union College
in New York, where she teaches courses in Yiddish, Israeli, and Sephardic song,
harmonization of the synagogue modes, and is the conductor of the School of
Sacred Music Choir. She is a
sought-after performer, coach, lecturer, and authority on Jewish music
repertoire and performance style, and has collaborated in concert with most of
the great cantors of this generation. Her
arrangements and improvisations on Yiddish folk songs are well-known, and can be
heard on several CDs. Ms. Rosezweig
is Music Director of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah in Manhattan.
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