David Osenberg
Partnership Manager, Music Director, Afternoon HostDavid Osenberg is WWFM Partnership Manager, WWFM Music Director, Afternoon Host, and Host of award-winning Cadenza.
The high point in David Osenberg’s broadcasting career came in 2014 when he was the recipient of the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for Broadcasting for his weekly program, Cadenza. David came to WWFM The Classical Network in 2004. In 2006 he began hosting his weekly Cadenza interview program. Since 2009 he has been at the forefront in making the station the most active classical music station in the USA to broadcast live concerts. He currently serves as Music Director, Partnership Manager, Host of Cadenza, the unique Celebrating Our Musical Future (bringing listeners weekly concerts from the great music schools in the country) and afternoon drive time host.
David was born in Oak Park, IL. He decided to go into music while in High School. He completed a Masters of Music degree from Northwestern University in Composition and Theory. Primary compositions teachers were Dr. Richard Hillert, M. William Karlins and Anthony Payne.
He lived and studied in Europe in the early 1980s. His career in the classical recording industry began at Rose Records in Chicago, then on to HMV in London, manager of the Tower Records Classical Annex in Philadelphia (Tower Records Small Store of the Year 1992), Product Manager for Naxos USA and Director of Marketing positions at Qualiton Imports and Forte Distribution. He founded and ran his Classical Recordings Mailing service, ClassiQuest (written up in Billboard in 2002) for 8 years.
In the past he has taught music at the University of Delaware-Wilmington, served as Music Director at a church and founded and still leads The Straight Ahead Big Band.
He is the father of two - both fine musicians - and currently lives in Langhorne, PA. A lifelong Chicago sports fans…he WAS a long suffering Chicago Cubs fan…until this year!!
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This Good Friday special features a performance of Bach's monumental work as presented by Felix Mendelssohn in the 19th century to jump start the Bach Revival. (Note the special time of 7 pm)
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A Cadenza + Feature: Composer Zhou Tian and Flutist Mimi Stillman talk about the Flute Concerto he composed for her plus a performance of the work
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Two programs in one this Monday evening (3/18 at 8 pm) - Mimi Stillman performs Zhou Tian's flute concerto, and we prepare for JS Bach's birthday with a selection some of the many concert recordings of Bach works from our musical partners.
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Philadelphia Orchestra principal clarinetist Riccardo Morales and Philadelphia Orchestra violinist Amy Oshiro-Morales join flutist and Dolce Suono Ensemble Founder/Artistic Director Mimi Stillman and pianist Charles Abramovic in this concert broadcast Monday (3/11 at 8 pm).
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Tempesta di Mare performs music written for and performed by the female musicians of Venice’s orphanages on this concert broadcast Friday (3/8 at 8 pm).
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Philadelphia’s Piffaro The Renaissance Band presents “The Year the Music Died” this Monday (3/4) at 8 pm.
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