Marvin Rosen earned his bachelor’s degree in music and music education from Trenton State College (now TCNJ), master’s degrees in musicology from the Manhattan School of Music and music education from Teachers College, Columbia University and his doctorate in Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He has also been a piano pedagogy student and staff member at The New School for Music Study in Kingston, NJ.
He has given many recitals and lecture-recitals as well as radio performances and interviews. Dr. Rosen’s mission is to expose beautiful, little-known 20th- and 21st-century music to audiences through performances, lectures, teaching, and radio. Since 1997, he has been the host of the ASCAP award-winning and popular weekly radio program “Classical Discoveries” heard on WPRB, Princeton. He has recorded two CDs of Alan Hovhaness’s piano music. In 2013, he performed as a member of the Piano Duo “Venti Dita” in the series “Piano by Nature,” and recorded a CD titled Child In The Garden.
Dr. Rosen is the author of liner notes for a number of recordings for Koch International Classics and Albany Records. He has presented lectures on "Music Of Alan Hovhaness," "Classical Radio’s Role in the New Millennium," "The Fuguing Tunes of Henry Cowell," and courses on "New Music" and "Music of Women Composers." Between 2011 and 2015 Marvin Rosen was a board member for the Media Council of New Music USA and from 2012 has been an honorary member on the Board of New York Women Composers. In 2013, he received the “Distinguished Musician Alumni Award” from TCNJ.
He was a member of the piano faculty at Westminster Conservatory from 1999 until 2026 and taught music history for The Honors Music Program. In the past, he taught musical styles for the Piano Pedagogy Certification Program.