David Rossmer is a composer, writer and performer. With Steve Rosen he wrote the book, music and lyrics of the musical “The Other Josh Cohen”, in which he also performed and which received six Drama Desk Award nominations. With Dan Lipton he writes songs and musicals, among them “The Perfect Mate” (Pittsburgh CLO, 2024), the score for a “Monopoly” musical with a book by Rick Elice, and “How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?” for Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara (Carnegie Hall, 2023). On the gala recording Doc Heilein and Friends Gala 2021 – Joyful (2022) Sarah Bouwers sings “They Don’t Let You in the Opera (If You’re a Country Star)”, which Rossmer and Lipton wrote for Kelli O’Hara; the performance at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf in November 2021 was the song’s European premiere.
David Rossmer
Composer
