Michael Rosin is a composer, writer, and keyboardist. He was awarded the Duino Prize in Music Composition in 2022 for his piano quartet Spira mirabilis, and his orchestral work Stellarium was selected from over a dozen readings to be performed at the first orchestral concert of the Mostly Modern Festival in June 2022. In the summer of 2022, he received five premieres in just three weeks, attending the International Music Festival of the Adriatic to study electronic and experimental composition with Tom Lopez in Italy. After the two premieres at the MMF in Saratoga Springs, he furthered his study of counterpoint and harmony in Paris, at the European American Musical Alliance (EAMA). Over the past decade, Rosin has written music for ensembles around Europe and the U.S.A., and has received commissions with performances held around the world. Rosin’s philosophy as a composer is that music is just as much a science as it is an art. He is inspired by astronomy, balance, symmetry, and the natural order of the universe, once defined as Musica universalis, or the “Music of the Spheres.” He lives with his wife on the southern coast of New Jersey.