Gil Rose
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Gil Rose is an American conductor and the founder and Artistic Director of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, a professional orchestra in the United States committed to commissioning, performing, and recording 20th- and 21st-century music.
(BMOP), and since then, has served as its Artistic Director. Under Rose's leadership, BMOP has received two John S. Edwards Awards for Strongest Commitment to New American Music and has won eleven ASCAP awards for adventurous orchestral programming. Rose is a recipient of an ASCAP Concert Music award and in 2007, received Columbia University
's Ditson Conductor's Award
for his commitment to the performance of American music. Rose is the recipient of three Grammy Award
nominations: in 2010 for his direction of Derek Bermel
's Voices for solo clarinet and orchestra; and two nominations in 2011 for his direction of Steven Mackey
's Dreamhouse. Both recordings were released on the BMOP/sound record label.
, an opera company in residence at the Cutler Majestic Theatre
. His performances with Opera Boston include: Luisa Miller
(Verdi), Nixon in China (Adams), Alceste (Gluck), The Crucible (Ward), La Vie Parisienne
(Offenbach), The Consul (Menotti), Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti), The Pearl Fishers (Bizet), The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Weill), Ernani
(Verdi), Semele (Handel), Ainadamar
featuring Dawn Upshaw
(Golijov), The Nose (Shostakovich), Der Freischütz
(Weberand), The Bartered Bride
(Smetana), Tancredi
featuring Ewa Podles
(Rossini), and the world premiere of Madame White Snake with music by Zhou Long
.
and served as the Artistic Director of the 2008 Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. He also directed the Voice of America Festival, a six-concert, three-day event, featuring BMOP in partnership with the Florestan Recital Project and the Tufts University Department of Music.
Rose has also made numerous appearances as a guest conductor, including with the American Composers Orchestra
, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
, the National Symphony Orchestra of the Ukraine, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony
, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
and the National Orchestra of Porto, as well as several appearances with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. He made his Tanglewood Music Festival
debut in 2002 and in 2003 he debuted with the Netherlands Radio Symphony
as part of the Holland Festival.
From 2003-2006, he was the Artistic Director of the Opera Unlimited Festival, a collaboration between BMOP and Opera Boston resulting in staged contemporary chamber operas. He led world premieres of Elena Ruehr's Toussaint Before the Spirits, the New England premiere of Thomas Adès
's Powder Her Face
, and John Harbison
's Full Moon in March. In 2006 Opera Unlimited presented the North American premiere of Peter Eötvös
's Angels in America
to critical acclaim.
featuring new performance technologies developed by the MIT Media Lab
, in collaboration with the American Repertory Theater. The world premiere took place at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco in Monte Carlo, Monaco in September 2010. The North American premiere will take place in Boston with the American Repertory Theater in March 2011, followed by a Midwest premiere at the Chicago Opera Theater in April 2011. Rose is scheduled to lead Opera Boston in New England premieres of Paul Hindemith
’s Cardillac
, Gaetano Donizetti
's Maria Padilla
(featuring Barbara Quintiliani), and Beethoven’s Fidelio
.
Rose serves as Executive Producer of BMOP/sound, a recipient of 2009, 2010, and 2011 Grammy Award nomations. His recordings have appeared on the year-end "Best of" lists of The New York Times
, Time Out New York, The Boston Globe
, Chicago Tribune
, American Record Guide
, National Public Radio, and Downbeat Magazine.
Background
Gil Rose was born in Pittsburgh, PA and received his Bachelor of Music from the University of Cincinnati - College Conservatory of Music. He later enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his Master of Fine Arts degree and Artist Diploma. His teachers include Samuel Jones, Juan Pablo Izquierdo, and Robert Page.Boston Modern Orchestra Project
In 1996, Rose founded the Boston Modern Orchestra ProjectBoston Modern Orchestra Project
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project is a full professional orchestra in Boston, Massachusetts, and is widely recognized as the premiere orchestra in the United States dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new music of the 20th and 21st centuries...
(BMOP), and since then, has served as its Artistic Director. Under Rose's leadership, BMOP has received two John S. Edwards Awards for Strongest Commitment to New American Music and has won eleven ASCAP awards for adventurous orchestral programming. Rose is a recipient of an ASCAP Concert Music award and in 2007, received Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
's Ditson Conductor's Award
Ditson Conductor's Award
The Ditson Conductor's Award, established in 1945, is the oldest award honoring conductors for their commitment to the performance of American music. The US$5,000 purse endowed by the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University was increased in 1999 from US$1,000.Upon the death of Alice M. Ditson,...
for his commitment to the performance of American music. Rose is the recipient of three Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
nominations: in 2010 for his direction of Derek Bermel
Derek Bermel
Derek Bermel is an American composer, clarinetist and conductor whose music blends various facets of world music, funk and jazz with largely classical performing forces and musical vocabulary...
's Voices for solo clarinet and orchestra; and two nominations in 2011 for his direction of Steven Mackey
Steven Mackey
Steven Mackey is an American composer, guitarist, and music educator.-Life:As a musician growing up listening to and performing vernacular American musics as well as classical music, Mackey's compositions are informed by rock and jazz, though in an avant-garde vein...
's Dreamhouse. Both recordings were released on the BMOP/sound record label.
Opera Boston
Since 2003, Rose has served as the Artistic Director of Opera BostonOpera Boston
Opera Boston is an opera company in Boston, Massachusetts. It specializes in innovative repertoire and rarely heard works, along with opera education and outreach programs designed to bring opera education to children, in schools and after-school programs throughout the Boston area.Its home base is...
, an opera company in residence at the Cutler Majestic Theatre
Cutler Majestic Theatre
The Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College, in Boston, Massachusetts, is a 1903 "Beaux Arts" style theater, designed by the architect John Galen Howard. Originally built for theatre, one of three theaters commissioned in Boston by Eben Dyer Jordan, son of the founder of Jordan Marsh, a...
. His performances with Opera Boston include: Luisa Miller
Luisa Miller
Luisa Miller is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich von Schiller. The first performance was given at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples on December 8, 1849...
(Verdi), Nixon in China (Adams), Alceste (Gluck), The Crucible (Ward), La Vie Parisienne
La Vie Parisienne
La Vie Parisienne was a magazine in France founded in 1863 and popular at the turn-of-the-twentieth century. It was originally intended as a guide to upper class and artistic life in Paris , but it soon evolved into a mildly risqué erotic publication...
(Offenbach), The Consul (Menotti), Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti), The Pearl Fishers (Bizet), The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Weill), Ernani
Ernani
Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Hernani by Victor Hugo. The first production took place at La Fenice Theatre, Venice on 9 March 1844...
(Verdi), Semele (Handel), Ainadamar
Ainadamar
Ainadamar means "Fountain of Tears" in Arabic, and is the first opera by Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov. The libretto is by American playwright David Henry Hwang. It premiered in Tanglewood on August 10, 2003. After major revisions, the new version premiered at the Santa Fe Opera on July 30,...
featuring Dawn Upshaw
Dawn Upshaw
Dawn Upshaw is an American soprano described as "one of the most consequential performers of our time" by the Los Angeles Times. The recipient of several Grammy Awards and Edison Prize-winning discs, Upshaw is at home both in opera and art song, and in repertoire from Baroque to contemporary...
(Golijov), The Nose (Shostakovich), Der Freischütz
Der Freischütz
Der Freischütz is an opera in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind. It premiered on 18 June 1821 at the Schauspielhaus Berlin...
(Weberand), The Bartered Bride
The Bartered Bride
The Bartered Bride is a comic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, to a libretto by Karel Sabina. The opera is considered to have made a major contribution towards the development of Czech music. It was composed during the period 1863–66, and first performed at the...
(Smetana), Tancredi
Tancredi
Tancredi is a melodramma eroico in two acts by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Gaetano Rossi, based on Voltaire's play Tancrède...
featuring Ewa Podles
Ewa Podles
Ewa Podleś is an internationally celebrated Polish coloratura contralto with a very wide vocal range and great vocal agility....
(Rossini), and the world premiere of Madame White Snake with music by Zhou Long
Zhou Long
Zhou Long is a Pulitzer-prize-winning Chinese American composer.-Biography:Born into an artistic family, Zhou Long began studying piano from an early age. Due to the artistic restrictions implemented during the Cultural Revolution, he was forced to delay his piano studies and live on a state-run...
.
Other Conducting Engagements
Rose has curated the Fromm Concert Series at Harvard UniversityHarvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
and served as the Artistic Director of the 2008 Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. He also directed the Voice of America Festival, a six-concert, three-day event, featuring BMOP in partnership with the Florestan Recital Project and the Tufts University Department of Music.
Rose has also made numerous appearances as a guest conductor, including with the American Composers Orchestra
American Composers Orchestra
The American Composers Orchestra is an American orchestra based in New York City. It is the only orchestra in the world dedicated solely to the creation, performance, preservation, and promulgation of music by American composers...
, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
The Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra , one of Poland's premier musical institutions, was established in 1901 on the initiative of an assembly of Polish aristocrats and financiers, as well as musicians...
, the National Symphony Orchestra of the Ukraine, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony
Cleveland Chamber Symphony
The Cleveland Chamber Symphony is an American chamber orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music, and has presented over 200 performance premieres.-History:...
, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
The Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana is a Swiss orchestra based in Lugano. The orchestra's primary concert venue is the Auditorio RSI....
and the National Orchestra of Porto, as well as several appearances with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. He made his Tanglewood Music Festival
Tanglewood Music Festival
The Tanglewood Music Festival is a music festival held every summer on the Tanglewood estate in Lenox, Massachusetts in the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts....
debut in 2002 and in 2003 he debuted with the Netherlands Radio Symphony
Netherlands Radio Symphony
The Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra was a Dutch radio orchestra. It was founded in 1985 after a merger of the Promenade Orchestra and the Radio Orchestra ....
as part of the Holland Festival.
From 2003-2006, he was the Artistic Director of the Opera Unlimited Festival, a collaboration between BMOP and Opera Boston resulting in staged contemporary chamber operas. He led world premieres of Elena Ruehr's Toussaint Before the Spirits, the New England premiere of Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor.-Biography:Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London...
's Powder Her Face
Powder Her Face
Powder Her Face is a chamber opera in two acts, Op. 14 by the British composer Thomas Adès , with an English libretto by Philip Hensher. The opera is 2 hours 20 minutes long...
, and John Harbison
John Harbison
John Harris Harbison is an American composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.-Life:...
's Full Moon in March. In 2006 Opera Unlimited presented the North American premiere of Peter Eötvös
Peter Eötvös
Péter Eötvös is a Hungarian composer and conductor.Eötvös was born in Odorheiu Secuiesc/Székelyudvarhely, Szeklerland, Transylvania . He studied composition in Budapest and Cologne. From 1962, he composed for film in Hungary. Eötvös played regularly with the Stockhausen Ensemble between 1968 and...
's Angels in America
Angels in America
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is the 1993 Pulitzer Prize winning play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. It has been made into both a television miniseries and an opera by Peter Eötvös.-Characters:...
to critical acclaim.
2010-2011 Season
Rose conducted performances of Death and the Powers, an opera by Tod MachoverTod Machover
Tod Machover , is a composer and an innovator in the application of technology in music. He is the son of Wilma Machover, a pianist and Carl Machover, a computer scientist....
featuring new performance technologies developed by the MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab
The MIT Media Lab is a laboratory of MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Devoted to research projects at the convergence of design, multimedia and technology, the Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as Wired and Red Herring for a...
, in collaboration with the American Repertory Theater. The world premiere took place at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco in Monte Carlo, Monaco in September 2010. The North American premiere will take place in Boston with the American Repertory Theater in March 2011, followed by a Midwest premiere at the Chicago Opera Theater in April 2011. Rose is scheduled to lead Opera Boston in New England premieres of Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
’s Cardillac
Cardillac
Cardillac is an opera by Paul Hindemith in three acts and four scenes. Ferdinand Lion wrote the libretto based on the short story Das Fräulein von Scuderi by E.T.A. Hoffmann.-Performance history:...
, Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
's Maria Padilla
Maria Padilla
Maria Padilla is a melodramma, or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Gaetano Rossi and the composer wrote the Italian libretto after François Ancelot's play. It premiered on December 26, 1841 at La Scala, Milan...
(featuring Barbara Quintiliani), and Beethoven’s Fidelio
Fidelio
Fidelio is a German opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly which had been used for the 1798 opera Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal by Pierre Gaveaux, and for the 1804 opera Leonora...
.
Composers
Rose has conducted on world premiere recordings of music by:- Louis Andriessen
- Arthur Berger
- Derek Bermel
- Lisa Bielawa
- William Bolcom
- Eric Chasalow
- Shih-Hui Chen
- Robert Erickson
- Lukas Foss
- Charles Fussell
- Michael Gandolfi
- John Harbison
- Lee Hyla
- David Lang
- Tod Machover
- Steven Mackey
- William Thomas McKinley
- Stephen Paulus
- David Rakowski
- Bernard Rands
- George Rochberg
- Elena Ruehr
- Eric Sawyer
- Gunther Schuller
- Elliott Schwartz
- Ken Ueno
- Reza Vali
- Evan Ziporyn
Labels
- BMOP/sound (Executive Producer)
- Albany Records
- Arsis
- Cantaloupe
- Chandos
- ECM
- Innova
- Naxos
- New World Records
Rose serves as Executive Producer of BMOP/sound, a recipient of 2009, 2010, and 2011 Grammy Award nomations. His recordings have appeared on the year-end "Best of" lists of The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, Time Out New York, The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
, Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
, American Record Guide
American Record Guide
The American Record Guide is a classical music magazine. It has reviewed classical music recordings since 1935.Since 1992, with the incorporation of the Musical America editorial functions into ARG, it started covering concerts, musicians, ensembles and orchestras in the US.The magazine prides...
, National Public Radio, and Downbeat Magazine.