Randall Rosenbaum

Randall Rosenbaum is the executive director of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, a position he has held since January 1995. From 1984 to January 1995, Rosenbaum served in a variety of capacities at the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, including deputy director and director of the dance and presenting organizations programs. He has a Bachelor of music education degree from Temple University and has managed orchestras and non-profit arts organizations in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Ohio. Rosenbaum has served as a site visitor and panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts in the dance, theatre, music, musical theatre/opera, and state and regional programs and as a panelist for the state arts agencies of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Tennessee, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont as well as for the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Heinz Endowment of Pittsburgh, and Cuyahoga Arts & Culture in Cleveland, OH. Rosenbaum has also taught arts administration courses, classes, and seminars at Brown University and Rhode Island College. He serves on the board of the New England Foundation for the Arts and the board of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies.

A practicing musician, Rosenbaum has sung professionally in churches and synagogues, and with performing ensembles throughout the East Coast. As a choral artist, Rosenbaum has performed as a charter member of the Robert Page Singers in Cleveland, as a member of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and the Providence Singers, under the baton of choral conductors Elaine Brown, Julian Wachner, Andrew Clark, and Betsy Burleigh, and as a member of choruses with orchestras conducted by Eugene Ormandy, Loren Maazel, Seiji Ozawa, Ricardo Muti, Mstislav Rostropovich, William Steinberg, James Levine and Carlo Maria Guilini.