Aurea Ensemble presents its annual holiday concert, A Child's Christmas in Wales on Sunday, December 11, 3pm at St. Martin's Episcopal Church, 50 Orchard Ave, in Providence.
As an artist and exponent of American traditional songs, he sought to blur the lines between outsider and insider art, and became a guiding force in the Athens, Ga., scene.
All Classical Portland invites you to join us in our limitless concert hall on the radio on March 24, 2022, at 3:00 PM PT for our first live in-studio performance of Thursdays@Three in over two years! Host Christa Wessel will be joined in the Roger O. Doyle performance studio by pianist María García, All Classical.
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Unless their teacher was Victor Rosenbaum.
“His mother found me,” Rosenbaum says of his young student, Kingsley Chen. “She contacted me, and said her son was in love with my playing. They had just immigrated from China to Las Vegas. I visited them there on a trip, and heard him play.
“Then they moved to the Boston area to be closer to me. I’ve been seeing him in person I couldn’t not do it.”
During his 53 years of teaching, Rosenbaum who has taught at New England Conservatory all that time, even while he was president of Longy School of Music (1985–2001), and then faculty at New York’s Mannes School of Music (2004–17) had given up working with such young students. After all, he’s had generations of conservatory-level pianists to coach.