Clarinet (USA)
Joseph Rosen graduated from the Crane School of Music, Potsdam, NY in 1962. While teaching instrumental music in the Fairfax County Virginia public schools from 1962 – 1965, he worked towards his masters degree in performance at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. and was a principal clarinetist in the Fairfax, Arlington and Alexandria, VA orchestras. For the next 35 years he was in the retail music business on Long Island, NY and resumed playing the clarinet in 1993. Director of the Ferrari Club of America for 13 years and raced his Ferraris extensively in the U.S., Mexico, Canada and Italy. Mr. Rosen now resides and freelances in New York City. He participates each summer in chamber music festivals in the U. S., Canada, Europe and Korea. His principal teachers have been Harold Wright in Washington and David Weber and Ricardo Morales in New York.