biography

Dean Rosenthal (b. Concord, Massachusetts, 1974) is an American composer and performer of electronic and instrumental music. He was first recognized in his early twenties, while pursuing undergraduate studies in music and philosophy at McGill University for conceiving, directing, and performing an historic concert of "The Great Learning" by the late English experimentalist Cornelius Cardew.

 

His music has been performed at Galapagos Art Space (Brooklyn), Electronic Media Foundation (NYC), Taipei Contemporary Art Center (Taiwan), Stratford Circus (London), Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media (Boston), and numerous other venues and performance spaces, and appears on Trace Label. Dean Rosenthal has been commissioned by noted Franz Rosenzweig scholar Barbara E. Galli and electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick.

 

He currently edits The Open Space Web Magazine.