Mick Rossi

In 2010, Rossi began recording and touring with Paul Simon, which included the tour with Sting in 2014, Simon's 25th anniversary tour for the album Graceland, and his tour for the album So Beautiful or So What. Keyboard magazines said, "it was like nothing you've ever heard at a rock concert: Mick was improvising a cadenza that was an explosion of what sounded like Philip Glass meets Shostakovich...and it grooved."

Rossi was conductor and co-orchestrator for the albums My December (2007) by Kelly Clarkson and Dark Hope (2010) by Renée Fleming. He was music director for the MATA Festival in 2005 and for The Bacchae of Euripides in Shakespeare in the Park with JoAnne Akalaitis and Philip Glass. Broadway credits as pianist and conductor include Tommy, Jeckyll and Hyde, and The Full Monty.

In 2001, Rossi joined the Philip Glass Ensemble as percussionist and keyboardist, playing on nine Glass recordings, including Music in Twelve Parts, Orion, and Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing. In 2012, he was assistant conductor for the production of "Einstein on the Beach". As a member of the ensemble, Rossi performed around the world at venues such as The Acropolis, Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center. He toured with the Philip Glass Chamber Trio with Wendy Sutter and conducted Glass at the Sydney Opera House.

Mick Rossi, (born December 9, 1956) is a Grammy-nominated American pianist, drummer, percussionist, conductor and composer known for his diverse, progressive work in the New York Downtown scene. A longtime collaborator of Philip Glass and Paul Simon, Rossi’s career has spanned many genres of contemporary American music.