Jerome Rose

Among his students are some of today's leading pianists, including Martín García García, who won the third prize at the XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition and first prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 2021.

In 1999, he founded the annual International Keyboard Institute/Festival (IKIF), a summer music academy which attracts some of the world's top piano students. Some of the festival's past and present faculty members/artists include Vladimir Feltsman, George Li, Alexander Kobrin, Alexander Braginsky, and many others. Each year, the festival hosts an international piano competition near the end, called the Dorothy MacKenzie Piano Competition. Prizewinners are awarded with international performance and recording opportunities, as well as the opportunity to appear at the IKIF as a performer the following year. The IKIF has been held at both the Mannes College and at Hunter College.

Rose began his teaching work at the age of 25 years, upon being appointed artist-in-residence at Bowling Green State University. He has given masterclasses at the Moscow Conservatory, the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw the Mozarteum University Salzburg in Salzburg, the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, and is a frequent guest at the Toho Conservatory of Music in Tokyo, Japan. Since 1998, he has been on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music.

A pupil of Adolph Baller, Rose had his debut with the San Francisco Symphony at the age of 15. A Mannes College and Juilliard School of Music graduate, he also studied with Leonard Shure and Rudolf Serkin at Marlboro Music School. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna as well. He won the Gold Medal at the 1961 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition.

Jerome Rose (born 12 August 1938 in Los Angeles) is an American pianist and educator.