College of Musical Arts

Pianist, Thomas Rosenkranz has performed on four continents and is in demand internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and artist teacher. He is a recipient of the Classical Music Fellowship Award from the American Pianists Association. As a Cultural Ambassador sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, he often travels to North Africa and the Middle East promoting goodwill through his solo performances of traditional and contemporary repertoire together with his continued collaborations with musicians from other cultures. He has been featured in such venues as the Kennedy Center, Miller Theatre, (Le) Poisson Rouge, as well as Festivals worldwide at Lincoln Center, June in Buffalo, Music in the Mountains, Intermedia, Shanghai New Music Week, Hell Hot! in Hong Kong, Vianden in Luxembourg, and the Carthage International and October Musicale in Tunisia. He has appeared as soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony, the National Orchestra of Beirut, Northwest Chamber Orchestra of Seattle and was the featured soloist for the Oberlin Conservatory Orchestra’s tour of China.

He has been presented in master classes and extended residencies abroad at the Shanghai Conservatory, Shenyang Conservatory, Xinghai Conservatory, University of Hong Kong, Tunghai University of Taiwan, Higher Institute de Musique Tunis, and the Higher Institute de Musique Beirut. Since 2006 He has been a member of the summer faculty at the Soundscape Festival in Italy which celebrates the work of emerging composers through commissions and premiere performances. He was visiting professor of piano at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China in 2011 for a series of masterclasses, lectures, and concerts. He is a member of the New York City based contemporary music ensemble, Signal and tours frequently with the the piano and percussion quartet, Hammer/Klavier and with Musicians from SoundSCAPE.

Dr. Rosenkranz completed an undergraduate degree at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studied with Robert Shannon and earned graduate degrees at the Eastman School of Music (MM, DMA), where he studied with and was a teaching assistant to Nelita True. On behalf of the Presser Foundation of Music, he studied with Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen in Paris as one of her last students.