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Title: Rough Sleepers
Commission: 2005
Completed: 2008
Instrumentation: flute (piccolo/alto), clarinet (bass clarinet) violin, cello, piano, percussion, and voices of the homeless (electronics)
Premiere Location: Merkin Hall, NYC
Premiere Ensemble: New Music Ensemble
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Title: Trace
Commission: 1996
Completed: 1998
Instrumentation: two pianos and two percussion
Premiere Location: ECLAT Festival Theaterhaus Halle 3, Stuttgart, Germany
Premiere Ensemble: Susan Winkus and Markus Stange (piano) and Lazlo Hudacsek and Daniel Buess (percussion)
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Morris Rosenzweig was born October 1, 1952 in New Orleans, where he grew up among the tailors, merchants, and strong-willed women of an extended family which has lived in southern Louisiana since the mid 1890s.

His works have been widely presented throughout the United States, as well as in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, France, Germany, Japan, Argentina, Mexico and Israel. Among the noted ensembles who have brought these works to life are Speculum Musicae, “Piano and Percussion-Stuttgart,” The New York New Music Ensemble, the Chamber Players of the League-ISCM, EARPLAY, NOVA, Philippe Entremont with the New Orleans Symphony, and Joseph Silverstein with the Utah Symphony.

His recorded compositions are available on Albany Records: Troy 1216, Troy 907, Troy 710, New World/CRI 705, New World/CRI 787, and Centaur 2103.

Rosenzweig’s catalog of over 75 entries features works for orchestra, various chamber ensembles, compositions for live instruments and electronics, two song cycles, two piano cycles, solo pieces, and one opera.

Mr. Rosenzweig has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation for a residency at Bellagio, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress, a commission the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, and the support from the Alice M. Ditson Fund for two recording projects; he has also been awarded the McCurdy, Nietche, Rappoport, and the International Horn Society prizes in composition.

The University of Utah named him University Professor in 1999, and additionally honored him with a Distinguished Scholarly and Creative Research Award in 2003.