About Judy Rosenberg
B.M., M.M. in Piano Performance from The Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
Artist/Lecturer and Director of Music in the Dance Department, Mills College, Oakland, California, from 1973 to 2010.
Ms. Rosenberg, considered one of the finest dance accompanists in the nation, has played for the classes of many of the country’s most celebrated dance artists, including Betty Jones, Daniel Nagrin, Pearl Lang, Molissa Fenley, Mary Cochran, and Mark Morris.
She has composed many scores for dance for the faculty and students at Mills College over a 37 year period and has appeared as soloist on the Music Heritage Society label.
Ms. Rosenberg began to compose and perform her scores for silent film in 2001.
In 2006, she was invited to perform in New York City at the Donnell Media Center’s Meet the Composer series, for the film Her Sister From Paris. She has recorded this score for DVD on the KINO label.
In 2010, she was invited to perform her score for ROTAIE at the Telluride Film Festival and she participated in the Master Class for silent film musicans at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in Pordenone, Italy.
November 13, 2010 was the San Francisco premiere of the newly restored 1916 film, THE CURSE OF QUON GWON, with her original score and performance. The DVD launch party was held at the Four Star Theater in San Francisco and featured the film maker Arthur Dong as part of his new DVD anthology STORIES FROM CHINESE AMERICA: the ARTHUR DONG COLLECTION. VOL. 2
She is the principal pianist for silent film at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California and appears regularly at the Niles Silent Film Museum in Fremont.