Rose Moskowitz was born in Cuba and came to Brooklyn as a young child. She is a graduate of Brooklyn College and received her Master of Music degree in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music. Postgraduate studies include organ, voice, and viola, accompanying courses at The Juilliard School, and foreign language study at Columbia University and New York University.

A longtime Park Slope resident, Rose taught piano and music theory for many years at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and has given many performances as soloist, chamber musician, and vocal and instrumental accompanist. Prior to becoming Music Director at Congregation Beth Elohim, where she accompanies Cantor Janet Leuchter and directs the Beth Elohim Choir, Rose was organist and choir director at Borough Park Progressive Synagogue and Beth Shalom People’s Temple.

She currently directs the Park Slope Senior Center Chorus, and co-directs, with Jeff Warchauer, the New York City Workmen’s Circle Chorus. When she not at Garfield Temple, Rose can be found playing the viola with the Impromptu String Quartet. An avid student of languages, she will gladly converse with you in her native Spanish and Yiddish, and would be thrilled to practice her French, Italian, German and Chinese.