He has given many recitals and lecture/recitals as well as radio performances in New York,
Philadelphia and Boston as well radio intervievs.
He has presented recitals totally devoted to the music of Alan Hovhaness in Princeton, NJ, Chicago and New York.
In 1997, Dr. Rosen presented a lecture/recital on American music at the Karlowicz Music School in Katowice, Poland, and a recital at the Szustra Palace in Warsaw.
In 1998 he performed at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C.
He has recorded two compact discs of Alan Hovhaness’ piano music for Koch International Classics: Dr. Rosen is the author of liner notes for a number of recordings for:
Koch International Classics - several CDs featuring music of Hovhaness, Cowell, and other American composers as well as Albany Records (South American String Quartets),
MMC Label - Sapphire Summer - Jeanne E. Shaffer.
He has presented lectures at:
College Music Society’s Northeast Chapter meetings: "Music Of Alan Hovhaness", "Classical Radios Role in the New Millennium" and "The Fuguing Tunes of Henry Cowell", and for several different organizations, lectures and courses on " New Music", "Music of Women Composers" and most recently “The Voices Behind the Walls,” (about music composed by nuns during the Baroque period).
He is currently a full time faculty member at the Westminster Conservatory of Music in Princeton, NJ, teaching piano and
music history for the Young Artists Program and also teaches Musical Styles for the Piano Pedagogy Certification Program.
From 1997 Marvin Rosen is the host of the weekly radio program Classical Discoveries
on WPRB - 103.3FM - Princeton, NJ.
This unique radio program devoted to little known repertoire of all musical periods with an emphasis on
the old (Baroque and before) and "New Classical Music".
"Classical Discoveries" was the winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award in 2005".
From summer of 2008 in addition, he is the host of the "Classical Discoveries Goes Avant-Garde" - program devoted to more modern and electronic music. During the summer of 2000 and 2001, Marvin hosted an oldies show on the same station.
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ABOUT MARVIN ROSEN 
Marvin Rosen earned his bachelor’s degree in music and music education from Trenton State College,
masters degrees in musicology from the Manhattan School of Music and Music Education from Teachers' College, Columbia Univeristy and his doctorate in Music Education in 1985 from Teachers’ College, Columbia University.
His teachers have included Shirley Batchelor and Karl Ulrich Schnabel.
From 1979 to 1982 he was first a piano pedagogy student and later a staff member at
the New School for Music Study in Kingston, NJ.
Each year he presents a piano recital with music partially and/or totally devoted to music of living composers.
Dr. Rosen’s mission is to expose beautiful, little-known 20th and 21st-century music to audiences
through performances, lectures, teaching and his radio program Classical Discoveries.
Fred the Cat - Alan Hovhaness - Half a century of piano music, and
Vision of a Starry Night - Alan Hovhaness - More - Half a century of piano music.
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