MIROSLAV KRASTEV, Director Vidin State Philharmonic Orchestra
He is a very good musician and conductor and works very precisely with the orchestra. For this reason the artistic level of the orchestra has improved greatly and continues to improve.
EMANUEL HURWITZ, Leader Aeolian String Quartet, Melos Ensemble, Philharmonia under Klemperer, English Chamber Orchestra.
I would like to recommend to you my colleague, Michael Rosenzweig as fine musician both as composer and conductor. He deserves to have a distinguished career.
I have listened to the string quartet by Michael Rosenzweig played by the Arditti Quartet.
I have also heard it while studying the score. During a playing career of some fifty years I must conclude that this is a composition of major interest which thoroughly deserves to be heard and played
LUKAS FOSS, International composer, conductor, organist, pianist
Very good! Bravo! Your composing is impressive and so is your conducting. Convincing is the word
The Arditti Quartet plays beautifully – both quartets are good early Rosenzweig.
JACK BEESON, Composer, the only American to have studied composition with Bartok, Professor Emeritus Columbia University
you have a fertile musical imagination and knowledge of the instrumental side of things that is quite special. You have also found your own way through the 12 – tone thicket
your fine talent to compose…talent that is long standing and developed
SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS, International Conductor
I must say I find them (your compositions) wholly admirable…which contained so many of your orchestral compositions and I certainly found them extremely striking in their concept with also a vivid sense of tone colours with their beautiful contrasting and mixing.
You are obviously a man of huge talent
OLIVER KNUSSEN, Composer, Conductor, Conductor Laureate London Sinfonietta.
a talent of a major order…one of the most substantial composers of his generation at work anywhere today.
What impressed (and impresses me most about Michael Rosenzweig’s work when I read it, is its technical competence and assurance in instrumental conception; when I first heard it, these considerations went out the window with an awareness of its genuinely involving expressive qualities – again something very rare in music of such elegant complexity on the page. Most composers have to wait many years before achieving the balance between form and content, technique and expression which Rosenzweig seems to have commanded from virtually the start of his career.
DAVID ALBERMAN, Violinist -Arditti Quartet, Leader 2nd Violins-London Symphony Orchestra
I feel that Michael's music is blazingly honest, strongly crafted music with a powerful intellectual rigour: the world is the richer for having it!
I have known Michael Rosenzweig for some twenty-nine years. In that time I have become increasingly impressed by his complimentary talents as a composer and conductor. The power of the emotion in his music and the elegance of the structures which convey it speak for themselves. I believe that his control of colour, nuance and architecture as a composer also informs everything that he does as a conductor.
He is therefore a conductor with an unusual gift for getting the most out of the music
YONTY SOLOMON, International Piano soloist, Professor Royal College of Music
I have this summer played four concerts with Michael Rosenzweig conducting. He is an outstanding musician, a very skilful and sensitive conductor, as well as a fine composer of unusual excellence and creativity. He is dedicated and dynamic, and he has much to say of importance musically.