The career of Robert Rozek has included performances and recordings with the greatest names in music.  As a violinist and conductor Mr. Rozek performed with singers such as Pavoratti, Careras, Mariella Freni and Cecelia bartoli. In New York, Rozek spent ten years in the Pop and Jazz field recording and performing with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Richard Clayderman, Ray Charles, Barbara Streisand, Quincy Jones and Louis Armstrong. In Miami, Mr. Rozek also recorded with many Latin Jazz and Pop stars , such as Julio and Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin, Selena, Shakira and Gloria Estefan. It was also in Miami that Mr. Rozek worked with Michael Jackson in some of his last recordings. 

Robert Rozek is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music where he studied the violin with Ivan Galamian and Dorothy  Delay. He continued his studies at the  Academia Chigiana of Siena, Italy. There he studied violin with Franco Gulli and  conducting with Sergiu Celibidache. Later he studied the violin with Nathan Milstein in New York, London and Zurich, Switzerland.

Mr. Rozek’s  early  performances  include the  Mendelssohn  concerto  and  the  Lalo Symphonie Espagnole with the Zurich symphony Orchestra at age 14. His formal concert debut was performed with  Alexander  Schneider  conducting  his  chamber  orchestra in New York.  Mr. Rozek was  then 16  years old,  and  performed  the  third  and  fifth concertos of Mozart. At that time, Rozek won the first prize in the New York All State Concertmaster Conpetition.  As a protege of Alexander Schneider, Mr. Rozek studied and performed chamber music with the greatest musicians of the 20th century including members of the Juilliard and Budapest Quartets. He was very fortunate to come under the influence of Pablo Casals with whom he performed at the Marlboro Music Festival in the United States.

While a student at Juilliard, Mr. Rozek made his Carnegie Hall debut in the Mendelssohn concerto in 1967 with the Claremont Chamber Orchestra of New York. Upon graduating from Juilliard Mr. Rozek  performed  as a soloist and  chamber  musician in The United States and Europe.  He  gave  the first  chamber music  concert at  New York’s  Lincoln Center at the opening of Alice Tully Hall. He was soloist with the New York City Chamber Orchestra umder Rafael Adler appearing at the Helsinki Music Festival. He appeared as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony. He also toured extensively in Italy as soloist with the Siena Summer Music Festival Orchestra.

Early in his career, Mr.Rozek moved to Zurich, Switzerland to assume the post of Leader of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. At this time while in the midst of a very  busy concert schedule  which  included  all of  Europe,  Rozek  did  extensive  studies  with  the great Nathan Milstein.With Milstein Rozek restudied the entire violin repetoire. While in Zurich as leader of the chamber orchestra, Mr.Rozek performed with most of the great artists of that time.  He toured England with  Yehudi  Menuhin  and was  leader of the Menuhin Festival  Orchestra in  Gstaad  Switzerland. With  Maurice Andre, Rozek  introduced the concertos  of  Vivaldi for  trumpet and  violin as arranged  by Mr. Andre. While in Zurich Mr. Rozek  appeared at the Zurich  Tonhalle Concert Hall  with  artitsts  such as Claudio, Arrau,  Martha Argerich,  James Galway,   Benedetti   Michelangeli,  Kiri-Te-Kanawa and Leonid Kogan.

After his post in Zurich Mr. Rozek went on to begin a conducting career in addition to his solo appearances.  His conducting appearances include the Luzern Music Festival,where he conducted  the  concert  celebrating  the  reopening  of   Wagner’s  home in Luzern, Switzerland. Rozek also  conducted  the  Arturo  Toscanini Orchestra of Italy in concert and operatic performances in the cities of  northern Italy. Artists with  whom he  worked at this time include  Luciano  Pavarotti  with whom he also  toured  Russia,  inlcluding  the  cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and an appearance  with Jose Careras in a benefit  concert for  International  Cancer  Research.  He appeared  at the reopening of the Modena Opera House with Mirella Freni and also worked with Cecelia Bartoli in her early career. 

Mr. Rozek’s teaching career began in New York. He held positions at the Barlow School, Columbia  University,  the State  University of  New York, Hamilton  College and Colgate University. In the 1990’s until 2003 Mr. Rozek was professor of violin  at the University of  Miami School of Music.  At this time he  conducted the  chamber  orchestra, taught  string  pedagogy and headed the Summer String program in Europe. From 2003 to 2010 , Robert Rozek was  Head of the Violin Department at the Vancouver Academy Music in Canada.  He was professor in the college division teaching masterclasses in violin, teaching conducting, chamber music and conducted opera performances for the vocal department. 

He also travels the world giving concerts and teaching. Recently Mr. Rozek has  appeared  at  the  Baratt   Due  Music  Institute,  Norway,   the  University  of  BC and the Beijing Union University and the Conservatory of Wuhan, China. In Switzerland Mr. Rozek has  taught for the past 10 years at the Margess  International  School. He now   teaches  at the newly formed  Astona-International  summer music academy for gifted string players. He has also  taught  masterclasses  in London for the  Razumovsky  Academy.  His  recent  solo  appearances   inlcude  the  Prokofief,  Bruch,  and  Dvorak  concertos and the Brahms concerto in Switzerland, Norway and Canada. His recent performances of the solo works of Bach and Paganini have been critically acclaimed throughout Europe and the far East. 

This season Mr. Rozek has conducted film music for Lion’s Gate Productions in Vancouver Canada. He has appeared as music director in Rome, Italy in a concert featuring Italian pop stars such as Ricchi e Poveri , Zucchero and special appearance by Shania Twain produced by Quincy Jones.  In August, Mr. Rozek recorded music for upcoming motion pictures with the well-known recording orchestra of Prague, Czech Republic. Later this season Mr. Rozek will be appearing in Europe in the role of teacher-performer on the violin in Oslo and Bergen, Norway at the Barratt Due Institute of Music. In Switzerland he will give concerts and materclasses at the Einsiedeln Abbey near Zurich.