David Rosenboom

David Rosenboom is a post-genre composer-performer, interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator known as a pioneer in American experimental music. Since the 1960s, his multi-disciplinary work has traversed ideas about spontaneously evolving musical forms, languages for improvisation, new techniques in scoring, cross-cultural and large-form collaborations, performance art and literature, interactive multimedia and new instrument technologies, generative algorithmic systems, art-science research and philosophy, and extended musical interface with the human nervous system. He was Dean of The Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts from 1990 through 2020, where he now holds the Roy E. Disney Family Chair in Musical Composition. Prior position highlights include: Richard Seaver Distinguished Chair in Music, CalArts; Darius Milhaud Professor of Music, Mills College; founding music and interdisciplinary professor, York University (Toronto); Artistic Coordinator, Electric Circus (New York); and Creative Associate, Center for Creative and Performing Arts, State University of New York (Buffalo). He has regularly presented his work in international venues, including major retrospectives at Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Tokyo Opera City, and others, and his work is widely recorded and published. Rosenboom is a Yamaha Artist.