Jeremy Wei Rosenstock, PhD Student in Composition

Jeremy Wei Rosenstock is a composer/improviser based in New York. His principal teachers and mentors include Nirmali Fenn, Michael Pisaro, Wolfgang Von Schweinitz, Tim Feeney, Clay Chaplin, Jonathan Dettling, Stan Link, Michael Slayton, Michael Alec Rose, Craig Nies, and Gabriela Lena Frank. As a composer, Jeremy has also studied with Michelle Lou, Zeena Parkins, Kurt Rohde, Giovanni Bonato, Stefano Bellon, Carola Bauckholt, Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Sergio Cote, Dan Trueman, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Andrea Mazzariello, Suzanne Farrin, Gabriela Lena Frank, David Conte, and Benjamin Boyle.  

Jeremy has participated in numerous music festivals and residencies, including Composing Nature: Composition Masterclass for Percussion Ensemble (2022), Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music (2021-22), International Composition Institute of Thailand (2021), Festival Mixtur (2021), International Contemporary Ensemble’s Ensemble Evolution (2021), the Westben Performer-Composer Residency (2021), So Percussion Summer Institute (2019), Cortona Sessions for New Music (2017-2020), and Stanford University’s CCRMA Summer Workshops (2017-2018, 2020). His music has been read, recorded, and/or performed by the Composers Conference Ensemble, KOE Duo, Art Percussion Ensemble, Tacet(i) Ensemble, Isaura String Quartet, Duo Cortona, and Lucia Mense.

As an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, Jeremy co-founded the Eschaton Ensemble, a student-run chamber group dedicated to the performance of new music. The group received an ensemble fellowship at the 2018 Cortona Sessions, premiering works by living composers (including his own) on piano and laptop. He was selected as a Semi-Finalist in 2019 for the Fulbright Program in Music Composition.

Jeremy received his MFA in Music Composition and Experimental Sound Practices from the California Institute of the Arts. His artistic interests include the integration of natural objects into chamber music, field recording, feedback systems, and just intonation. He is currently attending Stony Brook University for the PhD Program in Music Composition. In late 2023, his albums Abalone and after and anti-crystalline will be out on People Places Records and Falt Records, respectively.