David Rosenmeyer is in his fourteenth season as Music Director of the Fairfield County Chorale. Recent appearances include an outdoor concert in the old city of Jaffa in Israel with the Israeli Chamber Orchestra and two concerts in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with the Oratorio Society of New York and the Sao Carlos Philharmonic Orchestra. As associate conductor of the Oratorio Society, he conducted the Society at Carnegie Hall and was the chamber orchestra conductor for Britten’s War Requiem. He has also led the Society in Carnegie Hall performances of Britten’s Te Deum (2010), Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine (2008) and Stravinsky’s Mass (2007), which marked his Carnegie Hall debut. Mr. Rosenmeyer also conducted the OSNY on tour in Hungary and Rome.

For the last thirteen years, Mr. Rosenmeyer has been the Music Director of the Chorale and the University Singers at NYU, and he works closely with the Weill Music Institute, Carnegie Hall’s outreach and education department. In 2009, Mr. Rosenmeyer debuted with the Bellas Opera Company of Mexico City, leading a staged gala at the Cervantino Festival, and returned in 2010 to conduct the final gala of its Morelli Opera Competition. From 2003–09, Mr. Rosenmeyer served as the music director of the Bach Society of Columbia University. Highlights of his tenure included the New York premiere of Guarnieri’s Missa Diligite, several world premieres, and a staged production of Dido and Aeneas under his direction. In 2007, he was the music director for the famed Salzburg Marionette Theatre’s new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, which toured the U.S. In 2002, he was the music director and pianist for the world premiere of the Thomas Cabaniss opera The Sandman at Target Margin Theater.

Mr. Rosenmeyer began his conducting career as the guest conductor of major orchestras throughout South America, including Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Argentina, Orchestra of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción of Chile and the Orchestra do Festival do Curitiba of Brazil. He has conducted the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, as well as several operas in Tel Aviv with the International Vocal Arts Institute. Mr. Rosenmeyer studied choral conducting in Argentina at the J. J. Castro Conservatory of Music and orchestral conducting at the UCA in Buenos Aires. He holds a master’s degree in conducting and music theory from the Mannes College of Music in New York, and is a recipient of the Felix Salzer Award as well as a grant from the Joyce Dutka Foundation. Mr. Rosenmeyer is currently a member of the Mannes conducting faculty and serves on the faculty of the International Vocal Arts Institute as a conductor and vocal coach.

David arrived in the United States with his wife, mezzo-soprano Malena Dayen, in 2001 to pursue his Master’s degree in conducting and music theory at the Mannes College of Music. He is a recipient of the Felix Salzer Award as well as a grant from the Joyce Dutka Foundation. The Rosenmeyers live in New York with their teenage son, Lev Rosenmeyer.