Gladys Gladstone Rosenberg

Women in the Arts » Music

Pianist and educator who was instrumental in developing and fostering classical music in Utah. As a pianist, Rosenberg was asked to solo with the Utah Symphony on more than a dozen occasions. (She was a close friend of longtime Utah Symphony music director, Maurice Abravanel.) However, Rosenberg’s greatest contribution came in the form of teaching. Beginning in the 1950s, Rosenberg became a member (and later chair) of the piano faculty at the University of Utah, where she influenced countless young pianists over the next fifty years.