Sylvia Rosenberg, violinist, has performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad, appearing with major orchestras, including the Chicago, National and London Symphonies, the Royal Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, New Philharmonia, Berlin Radio, and all the BBC Orchestras. Festival appearances include the Edinburgh, Bath, Santa Fe Chamber, Banff Centre, Sarasota, Marlboro and Ravinia Music Festivals.

Ms Rosenberg has also appeared as soloist with the BBC Philharmonic under the direction of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies at the St. Magnus Festival. A graduate of the Juilliard School, where she studied with Ivan Galamian, she has worked with Szymon Goldberg and on a Fulbright Scholarship in Paris with Nadia Boulanger.

Ms Rosenberg has been a Professor of Violin at the Eastman School of Music, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Indiana University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, as well as a Faculty Member at the Aspen Music Festival since 1980. She has given frequent masterclasses including at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin College, University of Southern California, Jerusalem Music Centre, the conservatoires of The Hague, Denmark, Stockholm, Amsterdam, New England, San Francisco, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong Academy and the Royal College of Music and Guildhall School in London. In addition, Ms Rosenberg often serves on the juries of many international competitions.

She is currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and gives an annual series of masterclasses at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In April 2002 Ms Rosenberg gave a highly successful recital in London’s Wigmore Hall and in November 2003 performed her seventh concert in a series presented in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.