Composing, Conducting, Delivering - Rosenbaum, Luhmann, Ouyang, Walter w/ Juhl

Juhl Media presents Harold Rosenbaum and young composers in conversations with Ching Juhl. This Live Interview is on Saturday, 5/11 at 12p (EST).
Multi award-winning conductor Harold Rosenbaum is the founder of the New York Virtuoso Singers, one of this country’s leading professional choirs specializing in contemporary music, but performing music of all eras. A former professor at Juilliard and three other universities, he has written three books, has conducted close to 600 world premieres, and has commissioned 120 composers. His choirs appear on 49 commercial albums. In 2014 he established the Harold Rosenbaum Choral Conducting Institute, which has attracted young conductors from five continents. He has collaborated with leading opera companies, orchestras, and dance companies. Dr. Rosenbaum is much sort after as a clinician and lecturer. www.haroldrosenbaum.com
Grant Luhmann's works explore the intersection of his interests in composition, music technology, and performance. His compositions have enjoyed performances by ensembles such as the U.S. Coast Guard Band, the Parker String Quartet, and the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra. His recent works employ real-time digital manipulation of live performers to create soundscapes ranging from strict 4-voice canons to dense, orchestral textures originating from the sound of a single instrument, often in extended just intonation tuning. Grant completed his Master of Music degree at Yale School of Music and his Bachelor of Music at Indiana University. In addition to composition, he also studied oboe and English horn performance with Roger Roe at Indiana University. After graduating from Yale in 2019, he followed his new passion for medicine, applied to medical school, and embarked on a path to becoming a physician. His medical school research experiences include investigating the impact of hemodynamic monitoring devices in cardiac surgical patients, the effect of contracting COVID-19 during pregnancy on newborns, and gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease. He graduates from medical school at Weill Cornell Medicine in May 2024 and will start anesthesiology residency this summer at Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital.
Sofia Jen Ouyang aspires to create works that embody interdisciplinarity in both thought and form -writing music that expressively and critically engages with the world. Sofia is the winner of the BMI Composer Award 2023, Columbia University's Douglas Moore Prize 2023, Juilliard Orchestra Competition 2023, and The American Prize 2022. She received honorable mention from the Luigi Nono Composition Prize 2023 and is a BluePrint fellow with National Sawdust. Sofia’s works has been performed at Lincoln Center, Frankfurt Oper, Miller Theatre, Luzern KKL, Arvo Pärt Center, Lucerne Festival, New Music On The Point, and APAC Choir Festival. She has collaborated with Ensemble Modern, JACK Quartet, Juilliard Orchestra, Trio Immersio, National Sawdust Ensemble, Brittany Hewitt, Jeffrey Zeigler, and Sae Hashimoto, among others. Sofia is currently finishing her BA in philosophy and music at Columbia University, studies composition at the Juilliard School, and will begin her doctoral studies in Composition at Columbia University in fall 2024.
American composer and pianist Miles Walter’s music, praised as “densely contrapuntal” and for its "churning, Romantic-era-infused harmonies'' (Aspen Times), has been commissioned and performed by (among others) the Venice Biennale, Bertrand Chamayou, Aspen Music Festival and School, Yale Percussion Group, New York Virtuoso Singers, Argento Ensemble, Ensemble Lontano, and Merz Trio, and has received awards from BMI, AMFS, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. As a pianist, Miles is an avid collaborator and chamber musician, and has worked with artists and ensembles including Rolston, Callisto, and Isidore Quartets, Cantata Profana, icarus Quartet, Orchestra New England (world-premiere Ives recordings on Naxos), choreographer Jennifer Jancuska (Hamilton) & the BringAbout, New Chamber Ballet, and Mark Morris Dance Group. Committed to an eclectic and wide-ranging performance practice, he has premiered over four dozen works by his peers, students, and mentors alike, and plays fluently in numerous non- and semi-notated styles, in- and outside the concert hall. Miles holds a BA and an MM from Yale; further studies and festival credits include Norfolk, Ostrava Days, Bowdoin, and Prussia Cove. He currently lives in London, where he is a PhD student of Sir George Benjamin.
Instagram: @milesvwalter Soundcloud: / mileswalter
Ching Juhl is a filmmaker, video journalist and concert violist. Juhl has created more than 1000 videos on UA-cam. She received a MM degree from Indiana University and a Video Producer Certificate from New York University. Her award-winning feature documentary My Yang Gang Diary is available on Amazon.
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