Laura Rosenberg is music director/conductor of the New Yiddish Theater company and performer/producer of Myrna Oy's Yiddish Cabaret concerts. She has sung with the Meshugga Klezmer Band and the JazzKleztet, and is the board chair of KlezCalifornia. During Laura's 35-year career in arts administration, she co-founded and directed the Hot Springs Music Festival (where she currently serves as operations manager and arts administration mentor), and serves as an executive director of Earplay, director of concert activities for Northwestern University, director of production for The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, artistic advisor and director of special projects for the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, and concert director of San Francisco's Old First Concerts series. She trained as a conductor at Temple University, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana.