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Benita Rose
World renowned concert pianist Benita Rose just returned from performing for very enthusiastic audiences in Poland, Norway, Latvia, Estonia, England, Spain, France, Canada, China, and South America, her fifth world tour. She has performed twice in Carnegie Hall within a half year’s time, and also at the Palau de Música Catalana in Barcelona.
Last month, Ms. Rose gave a lecture-recital on Tomasz Kowalczyk at the international conference of EPTA in Tallinn, Estonia, to great acclaim. Last May, she gave a lecture recital on Tomasz Kowalczyk to the 2026 ASMTA State Convention, after performing eight of his pieces as part of three major solo recitals in NYC and throughout Europe. She performed in New York City twelve times in one year including at Klavierhaus and at the Tenri Cultural Institute. This year she has performed in Spain five times including as a guest performer at EPTA Madrid.
In June 2026, Ms. Rose was a keynote artist at the National Federation of Music Clubs national conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, with a 90 minute living composer lecture-recital.
Ms. Rose has performed 5 concerti with various Arizona orchestras in the 2022-2023 season. Ms. Rose has been a guest on the program “Inspired Lives” airing out of Ireland.
Ms. Rose’s love of the music of living composers began with her discovery of living composer Marcos Fernández-Barrero. Her album of his music has aired on radio stations abroad. New York music critic Jed Distler has described her live performance of this music as “Gorgeous. Beautiful music, beautifully played.”
New York reviewer Don Isler calls Ms.Rose an “indefatigable, admirable artist.”
Ms. Rose has received glowing reviews for her Chopin playing from Pianist magazine. She was the featured cover pianist of their social media.
Her lecture-recitals on interpretation and performance of select works are available through “From the Artist’s Bench” video series by subscription through NCKP.
Ms. Rose was the first pianist in the history of the World Saxophone Congress to be invited to give a lecture recital from the perspective of a pianist, for their conference in China, in July 2025. She has been half of the Rose-Gibbs Duo, garnering international honors through competition and performance.
Ms. Rose’s performance of the Gershwin Concerto in F was heard on over 200 radio stations on Martin Goldsmith’s “Performance Today.”
Ms. Rose’s most recent projects include a CD of living composers coming soon, and a CD of works by living Polish composer, Tomasz Kowalczyk, released earlier this year.
As a child and young adult, Ms. Rose suffered from selective mutism, a crippling social anxiety which prevents those afflicted from speaking in anxiety-producing situations. This disability enhanced her ability to express herself through the piano. After such a setback, she has now been described as “unstoppable!”
Ms. Rose has won countless international solo piano competitions (professional division) and is a former college professor of piano.
As a writer, Ms. Rose’s articles on Schumann and the Liszt Sonata have been published in English and Polish by Toster Pandory. She was invited by Kowalczk to write and has supplied the preface to his music book, “Piano Pictures.”
Her articles on his music will be featured in upcoming publications.
Ms. Rose’s pedagogical lineage can be traced to Beethoven, Czerny, and Liszt. She holds a Master of Music degree from the Hartt School, and was a student of Louis Crowder, Joseph Villa, and Luiz de Moura Castro. Other teachers have included Ilana Vered, Menahem Pressler, Irma Vallecillo, Alan Fraser, Paul Rutman, David Westfall, Raymond Lewenthal, Nina Svetlanova, and Emmanuel Ax.
When not playing piano, Ms. Rose enjoys languages inspired by her musical travels, including Latvian, French, Spanish, Polish, Catalan, Turkish, Latin, and currently adding Chinese, Portuguese, Danish, and Italian.
“Though it’s wonderful to know these languages, nothing communicates as effectively as my fingers through the universal language of music. It is pure love.”
Ms. Rose’s select lecture-recitals on interpretation and performance are available through “From the Artist’s Bench” video series by subscription through NCKP.
You can follow Ms. Rose on BenitaRose.com, Spotify and your favorite listening platforms, youtube and facebook.
Various CD’s are available for purchase at $20 each.
Sheet music books signed by Tomasz Kowalczyk corresponding to the Kowalczyk CD are available for $20, to benefit the composer.
A musical magazine of pedagogical recital pieces composed by Benita Rose is available for purchase for $10.