Ronald Roseman

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Ronald Roseman (born May 15, 1933 in New York City , † February 10, 2000 there ) was an American oboist, music teacher and composer.

Life

Roseman had piano lessons from the age of five and began to compose at the age of ten. From 1946 he attended the High School of Music and Art in New York, where he had his first oboe lessons with Abe Klotzman . At the New School for Social Research he studied composition with Henry Cowell and oboe with Lois Wann . After graduating, he went to the City University of New York , where he continued his composition studies with Karl Rathaus and Elliott Carter , and took private lessons with Ben Weber . From 1950 he performed as a freelance oboist in the New York region and joined the American Chamber Orchestra .

In 1960 he became a member of the New York Philharmonic , which was conducted by Leonard Bernstein at the time . Until 1961 he was a member of the orchestra, with which he appeared several times as a guest in the position of principal oboist in the 1970s. In 1961 he succeeded Jerome Roth in the New York Woodwind Quintet , of which he was a member until his death. With the quintet he has made guest appearances in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, the Soviet Union, Thailand, Indonesia and Japan. The ensemble's repertoire included works by contemporary composers such as Samuel Barber ( Summer Music ), Gunther Schuller , Irving Fine , Ezra Laderman , William Bergsma , Alec Wilder , William Sydeman , Alvin Etler , Meyer Kupferman , Elliott Carter and Wallingford Riegger .

Furthermore, Roseman was a member of the New York Bach Aria Group , founded by William H. Scheide in 1946 as the successor to Robert Bloom , which from 1980 was based on the campus of Stony Brook University as the Bach Aria Festival and Institute . As a chamber musician, he has also performed with the Tokyo String Quartet , Juilliard String Quartet , Guarneri String Quartet , the Fine Arts String Quartet and the Composer's String Quartet as well as the AmericanString Trio and was a regular guest of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Ensemble for Contemporary Music Speculum Musicae . His chamber music partners also included the oboists Melvin Kaplan and Philip West , the clarinetist Charles Russo , the bassoonists Morris Newman and Lester Cantor, and the horn players Ralph Froelich and Howard Hillyer .

As a student at CUNY in the 1960s, Roseman taught music at the Henry Street Settlement . From 1973 until his death he was an oboe teacher at the Juilliard School . From 1974 he also taught at Yale University . From 1980 he held a professorship at the Aaron Copland School of Music .

As a composer, Roseman was best known for his chamber music and solo works for the oboe, but also for flute, bassoon and cor anglais, including a wind quintet commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts , a setting of Psalm 22 , a double quartet for wood and brass, a Sonata a Quattro , a Trio for two oboes and English horn, Come Chitara for oboe and guitar and a Partita for solo oboe.

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personal data
SURNAME Roseman, Ronald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American oboist, music educator, and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2000
Place of death New York City