Internationally known as a soloist, chamber music player, teacher, and recording artist, Ronald Roseman has more than fifty-five solo and chamber music recordings to his credit, including the Haydn Concerto for Vox, the Schumann Three Romances, Hindemith, Gunther Schuller, and Saint-Saëns Sonatas for Desto, and the Poulenc and Telemann E Flat Sonatas for Nonesuch. His recording of the Handel Solo and Trio Sonatas (also for Nonesuch) was chosen as “Critic’s Choice” by High Fidelity, “Top of the Classics” by Cue, and “Recording of Special Merit” by Stereo Review. He has been a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet since 1961 and has toured with them extensively in the U.S.A., Europe, Russia, Asia, and South America, as well as making numerous recordings with the group. Mr. Roseman is also oboist of the Bach Aria Group and was acting Co-Principal with the New York Philharmonic for two years. He has appeared with the Juilliard, Tokyo, Guarneri, Lenox, Fine Arts, and Composer’s String Quartets, and has been a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Speculum Musicae. He has appeared at many music festivals including the Casals, Aspen, Waterloo, Kuhmo, Norfolk, Bowdoin, Young Pyung (Korea) and Grand Canyon Festivals.

Ronald Roseman is also an active composer, whose teachers were Ben Weber, Elliot Carter, Karol Rathaus, and Henry Cowell. His recent works include a Wind Quintet, commissioned by the N.E.A. and recorded for Musical Heritage by the Soni Ventorum Quintet, a setting of Psalm 22 for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra, commissioned by the National Chorale and premiered by them at Avery Fisher Hall in 1989, and a Double Quintet for Woodwinds and Brass, commissioned by the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, recently released on a C.D. by New World Records. Other recent commissions are a trio for flute, oboe and cello and Four Holy Sonnets of John Donne for Goliard Concerts, premiered in New York at Weill Recital Hall in November, 1995. He is presently working on a Sextet for Piano and Winds under a New York State Council on the Arts commission.

Mr. Roseman is professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music and the Yale School of Music, and is also on the faculty of the Juilliard School.