:Charlie Rosen (musician)
{{Short description|American musician}}
{{Other people||Charlie Rosen (disambiguation){{!}}Charlie Rosen}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| image = charlie rosen 2023 2.jpg
| caption = Rosen at the 76th Tony Awards in 2023
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1990|07|20}}
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| education = Berklee College of Music
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Musician
- composer
- arranger
- orchestrator
- music director
- music producer}}
| years_active = 2005–present
| website = {{URL|http://www.charlierosen.com/}}
}}
Charlie Rosen (born July 20, 1990{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/theater/charlie-rosen-broadway.html|title=The Modern Music Man: He Plays 70 Instruments and Video Games, Too|last=Harris|first=Elizabeth A.|date=April 14, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 30, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/B0JC2snJxXJ/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/crosenmusic/2092216056736585161 |archive-date=December 25, 2021 |url-access=registration|title=Charlie Rosen on Instagram: "🎂 Obligatory birthday post 😎 looking forward to my 29th trip around the sun with y'all thanks for being there ❤️"|website=Instagram|language=en|access-date=November 30, 2019}}{{cbignore}}) is an American musician, composer, arranger, orchestrator, musical director, and music producer. He is best known for his work on Broadway, where he has worked on Be More Chill, Prince of Broadway, American Psycho, and, along with Bryan Carter, won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Some Like It Hot. He is also the leader of the 8-Bit Big Band, a jazz orchestra specializing in video game music.{{Cite web|url=http://voyageatl.com/interview/meet-charlie-rosen-8-bit-big-band/|title=Meet Charlie Rosen of The 8-Bit Big Band |work=Voyage ATL|date=August 14, 2019|language=en-US|access-date=November 30, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/broadway-composer-specializes-in-unusual-and-exotic-instruments-1.4390207|title=Broadway composer specializes in 'unusual and exotic' instruments|last=Flanagan|first=Ryan|date=April 22, 2019|website=CTVNews|language=en|access-date=December 1, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxUheFf_jVsSkxW9DBd_6bA|title=The 8-Bit Big Band|website=YouTube|language=en|access-date=December 1, 2019}}
Early life
Rosen was born in Los Angeles, California, as the son of a bassoonist and organist. He was taught piano by his mother, starting from the age of three. At the age of fifteen, he joined the onstage band for the Los Angeles production of 13. He moved to New York at the age of seventeen to make his Broadway debut in 13, where he was a swing.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/theater/28simo.html|title=Making the Band, the Broadway Version, in the Musical '13'|last=Simonson|first=Robert|date=September 24, 2008|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 30, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/charlie-rosen-brings-the-big-band-back-to-broadway_67307.html|title=Charlie Rosen Brings the Big Band Back to Broadway|last=Gordon|first=David|date=January 26, 2014|website=TheaterMania|language=en-US|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191201202756/https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/charlie-rosen-brings-the-big-band-back-to-broadway_67307.html|archive-date=December 1, 2019|access-date=December 1, 2019}} He later attended Berklee College of Music for four semesters.
Career
File:Shovel Knight concert February 2025 NYC.jpg concert where Rosen assembled and led the band and arranged the tracks. Rosen and composer Jake Kaufman are in the center.]]
Rosen began his professional career as a swing musician for the bass, guitar, and percussion tracks of 13. Starting in 2012,{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/nick-blaemire-caissie-levy-santino-fontana-and-more-set-for-charlie-rosens-broadway-big-band-nyc-debut-concert-com-199694|title=Nick Blaemire, Caissie Levy, Santino Fontana and More Set for Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band NYC Debut Concert|last=Gioia|first=Michael|date=November 12, 2012|website=Playbill|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420110444/https://www.playbill.com/article/nick-blaemire-caissie-levy-santino-fontana-and-more-set-for-charlie-rosens-broadway-big-band-nyc-debut-concert-com-199694 |archive-date=April 20, 2021 |access-date=December 1, 2019}} he was the bandleader of Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band, where he arranged classic musical theater numbers into music that could be performed by a jazz orchestra with Broadway performers as the vocalists. {{As of|2019|April}}, he primarily features as a guitarist in the Broadway musical Be More Chill.
Rosen can play about 70 musical instruments including the "flugelbone", melodica, Fender Rhodes, and theremin. Of these he has described the flugelbone as his "orchestrating secret weapon" due to its ability to utilize variety of timbres. However, he considers himself primarily a bassist but uses the range of instruments in his repertoire to improve the quality of the music he is able to create.
In 2017, Rosen founded the 8-Bit Big Band, a jazz and pops orchestra, in which he serves as the director.{{cite news |last=Olson |first=Eric |title=Video games meet big band jazz at Seattle's Benaroya Hall |work=The Seattle Times |date=2024-08-26 |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/video-games-meet-big-band-jazz-at-seattles-benaroya-hall/ |access-date=2024-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241006010002/https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/video-games-meet-big-band-jazz-at-seattles-benaroya-hall/ |archive-date=2024-10-06 |url-status=live }} The band won a Grammy Award for an arrangement for the song "Meta Knight's Revenge", from the game Kirby Super Star{{nbsp}}(1996), in 2022,{{cite news |last=Rossignol |first=Derrick |title=A song from a 26-year-old Kirby game is Nintendo's first Grammy win |work=Uproxx |date=2022-04-04 |url=https://uproxx.com/music/kirby-2022-grammys-nintendo-meta-knight-super-star/ |access-date=2024-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240529222458/https://uproxx.com/music/kirby-2022-grammys-nintendo-meta-knight-super-star/ |archive-date=2024-05-29 |url-status=live }} and were nominated again in 2024.{{cite news |last=van der Velde |first=Issy |title=Persona 5 jazz cover nominated against Willow Smith and John Legend at Grammys 2025 |work=NME |date=2024-11-12 |url=https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/persona-5-jazz-cover-nominated-against-willow-smith-and-john-legend-at-grammys-2025-3811840 |access-date=2024-12-08 |archive-date=November 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241116150919/https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/persona-5-jazz-cover-nominated-against-willow-smith-and-john-legend-at-grammys-2025-3811840 |url-status=live }}
Rosen is also the composer on 2021 comedy film Here Today.{{Cite web|title=Charlie Rosen Scoring Billy Crystal's 'Here Today' {{!}} Film Music Reporter|url=http://filmmusicreporter.com/2021/04/20/charlie-rosen-scoring-billy-crystals-here-today/|access-date=2021-05-05|language=en-US}}
Credits
= Theater =
| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:75%;"
! style="width:5%;" |Year(s) ! style="width:25%;" |Production ! style="width:12.5%;" |Role ! style="width:17.5%;" |Location ! style="width:10%;" |Category ! style="width:5%;" class="unsortable" |{{abbr|Ref.|References}} |
| align="center" |2008
|13 |Swing bass, guitar, percussion | rowspan="2" |Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre | rowspan="2" |Broadway |
| align="center" |2010
|Associate conductor |
| align="center" |2011
|The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful (And Her Dog!) |Orchestrator |John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |Regional |
| align="center" |2012
|Lead guitar/drums/lead singer (understudy) | rowspan="2" |Broadway |
| align="center" |2012
|Music |
| align="center" |2013
|Music director | rowspan="2" |Regional |{{Cite web|last1=Birchall|first1=Paul|title=Los Angeles Theater Review: THE BLACK SUITS (Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City)|url=https://www.stageandcinema.com/2013/11/06/the-black-suits-ctg/|work=Stage and Cinema|access-date=December 1, 2019|language=en|date=November 6, 2013}}{{Cite news|last1=Meisel|first1=Myron|title=The Black Suits: Theater Review|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/black-suits-theater-review-654528|access-date=December 1, 2019|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=November 7, 2013|language=en}} |
| align="center" |2014
|Soon |Arranger |
| align="center" |2015
|Orchestrations |Broadway |
| align="center" |2015
|Orchestrator |Regional |
| align="center" |2015
|Guitar/Zither/Mandolin |Broadway |
| align="center" |2015
|A Little More Alive |Orchestrator |Regional |
| align="center" |2016
|Associate music director |Broadway |
| align="center" |2016
|Music supervisor |Barrington Stage Company | rowspan="2" |Regional |
| align="center" |2017
|A Legendary Romance |Music director |
| align="center" |2017
|A Midsummer Night's Dream |Orchestrator |Off-Broadway |{{Cite news|last1=Clement|first1=Olivia|title=A Midsummer Night's Dream Opens in Central Park|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/a-midsummer-nights-dream-opens-in-central-park|access-date=December 1, 2019|work=Playbill|date=July 31, 2017|language=en}}{{Cite news|last1=Hetrick|first1=Adam|title=How Did Critics Review A Midsummer Night's Dream Starring Phylicia Rashad, Annaleigh Ashford, and Danny Burstein?|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/how-did-critics-review-a-midsummer-nights-dream-starring-phylicia-rashad-annaleigh-ashford-and-danny-burstein|access-date=December 1, 2019|work=Playbill|date=July 31, 2017|language=en}} |
| align="center" |2017
|Associate orchestrator |Broadway |
| align="center" |2018
|Be More Chill |Orchestrator |Pershing Square Signature Center |Off-Broadway |
| align="center" |2018
|Orchestrator |The Public Theater |Off-Broadway |
| align="center" |2018
|Pamela's First Musical |Orchestrator |Two River Theater |Regional |
| align="center" |2019
|Be More Chill |Orchestrator |Lyceum Theatre |Broadway |
| align="center" |2019
|Broadway Bounty Hunter |Music supervisor |Greenwich House Theater |Off-Broadway |
| align="center" |2019
|Co-orchestrations (horn) |Broadway |
| align="center" |2019
|Music Supervisor |Two River Theater |Regional |
| align="center" |2019
|Orchestrations |Playwrights Horizons |Off-Broadway |
| 2019
|Orchestrations |Broadway |
| 2022
|Co-orchestrations |Broadway |
| 2023
|Orchestrations |London | |
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year(s)
!Title !Role ! class="unsortable" |{{abbr|Ref.|References}} |
|---|
| 2016
|Musical director |
| 2017–2018
|Composer |
| 2018
|Track production |
= Film =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year(s)
!Title !Role ! class="unsortable" |{{abbr|Ref.|References}} |
|---|
| 2021
|Composer |
| 2021
|Composer |
| 2023
|Music Producer | |
Awards and nominations
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