Eric Rosenblith

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Eric Rosenblith is an Austrian born American violinist. Former concertmaster of the Indianapolis and San Antonio Symphony Orchestras, violinist Eric Rosenblith has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He served as chairman of New England Conservatory's string department for more than twenty-five years, and is a former faculty member of the Hartt School in Connecticut. Rosenblith is on the faculty of Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, and a visiting professor at University of Kansas/Lawrence.

Rosenblith received the Licence de Concert from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. He has been awarded an honorary D.Mus. from New England Conservatory. His violin teachers included: Jacques Thibaud in Paris, Carl Flesch in London, and Bronislaw Huberman in New York.

An elegant and distinguished performer, he has premiered and recorded many new works by American composers including David Stock, George Crumb, Alan Lighty, and Lucia Dlugachevsky. Rosenblith is the editor and translator of the newly revised Art of Violin Playing by Carl Flesch. He is the founder and artistic director of the International Musical Arts Institute of Fryeburg, Maine. Rosenblith regularly gives master classes in the United States, the United Kingdom, Korea, Taiwan, and the People's Republic of China.