Ian Rosenbaum
Percussion
Only 24 years of age, American percussionist Ian Rosenbaum has developed a musical breadth far beyond his years. As a member of the Verbier Festival Orchestra, he performed with many of the world’s most noted conductors, including Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev and Zubin Mehta. Tours with this extraordinary orchestra, comprised of musicians from around the world, took him to the major concert halls of France, Germany, Switzerland and the United States. The following season, Rosenbaum successfully entered the realm of solo marimba performance making his Kennedy Center debut in Washington D.C., and later that year garnered a special prize created for him at the Salzburg International Marimba Competition. However, it is in the sphere of chamber music performance that he has achieved his greatest success. Rosenbaum frequently performs with the acclaimed So Percussion group and has appeared at the Norfolk, Yellow Barn and Chamber Music Northwest Festivals. At the conclusion of Yellow Barn, artistic director Seth Knopp said of him, "Ian Rosenbaum's music-making is informed by a wonderful intelligence, interpretive insight and prodigious control. But above all, it is his openness of approach that makes him an unusually sensitive artist and collaborator." Highlights of the 2011-2012 season include a return to the Kennedy Center and a tour of Taiwan, performances in New Haven and Baltimore with marimba virtuoso Robert van Sice, and recitals in New York City and Westchester County. Rosenbaum is a founding member of Le Train Bleu, Novus NY and the Sandbox percussion quartet. He has recorded for the Bridge, Canteloupe, Innova and Naxos labels and recently joined the faculties of the Peabody Institute’s Preparatory program and Yale College where he founded an undergraduate percussion ensemble. Rosenbaum endorses Vic Firth sticks and mallets and is a member of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two.
