Mathew Rosenblum's music is filled with diverse musical elements derived from classical, jazz, rock and world music traditions. A wide array of groups have commissioned, performed and recorded his music, such as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Harry Partch Institute, the American Composers Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, the Calmus Ensemble of Leipzig, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble and Sequitur. In 2001, Rosenblum was a core participant in the American Composers Orchestra's Orchestra Tech Festival and Conference where his piece Nü kuan tzu, for singers, samplers and chamber orchestra, was one of 20 featured works. In 2009, he was a senior faculty composer at the June in Buffalo Festival. Other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, four Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Music Fellowship Grants, a Heinz Endowments Creative Heights Award, two Fromm Foundation Commissions, a National Endowment for the Arts Music Fellowship Grant, a Barlow Endowment Commission and a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship Grant. Rosenblum received degrees in composition from the New England Conservatory of Music and Princeton University and is currently professor of composition and chair of the Department of Music at the University of Pittsburgh where he also co-directs the Music on the Edge new music series.