JAMES ROSENBLUM                                  

AGE 41  I  HARWICH, MASSACHUSETTS  I  UNITED STATES
ATTORNEY

Currently an associate at Senie & Associates—a law firm specializing in land use and environmental matters—James Rosenblum’s academic credits include a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Yale University and a Juris Doctor from Columbia University. After serious private piano study as a child and teenager, he’s kept musically active in adulthood through masterclasses and summer programs, and made the finals of two amateur competitions, both Chicago’s and WQXR’s Classical Moonlighter’s in New York. With his wife, Georgian-American pianist Ana Glig, he has recently made select duo piano and chamber appearances in Massachusetts, and in May 2019, the couple sponsored their first competition for young classical pianists in Gurjaani, Georgia. They’ve also toured Georgia three times, giving masterclasses and performances. James seasonally serves as pianist/organist at First Church of Truro, Massachusetts.

Repertoire

Preliminary Round

BACH Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp Major, BWV 848
BACH Prelude and Fugue in B Major, BWV 892
CHOPIN Etudes, op. 10, nos. 6, 5, 1

Semifinal Round 

BACH English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808
MENDELSSOHN Lieder ohne Worte in F-sharp Minor, op. 67, no. 2
RAVEL “Ondine” from Gaspard de la nuit
CHOPIN Polonaise in A-flat Major, op. 53 (“Héroïque”)

Final Round 

BEETHOVEN Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, op. 37 (I)