Dr. Rosenbloom was born in Boston and began piano studies at the age of ten with Joseph U. Boudreau. He graduated magna cum laude in music composition from Harvard in 1974, and received his Masters and Doctorate in composition from Cornell in 1979. He has taught theory, piano and composition at Cornell and the New England Conservatory, and computer science at the University of Rhode Island. He was principal pianist of the Filarmonica de Caracas (Venezuela), as well as head of the piano department at the Caracas Conservatory. He is principal pianist with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, has conducted the Young Peoples Symphony, the URI and Ariosti chamber orchestras and has been the associate conductor and composer-in-residence of Musica Dolce since its inception. Paul lives just outside of Westerly and works for EVAS, local firm specializing in adaptive computer technology for the blind and visually handicapped.