Carl Rosman is an Australian clarinettist, singer and conductor.
Rosman studied with
Phillip Miechel in Melbourne, then with
Peter Jenkin at the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music (formerly the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music and known by the moniker "The Con") is a heritage-listed music school in Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the old ...
.
He has performed in Europe, Asia, Australasia and both North and South America as a soloist.
He is closely associated with composers such as
Brian Ferneyhough,
,
Richard Barrett,
Chris Dench and
Liza Lim
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, as well as frequently performing such composers as
Pierre Boulez,
Helmut Lachenmann
Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (born 27 November 1935) is a German composer of contemporary classical music. His work has been associated with "instrumental musique concrète".
Life and works
Lachenmann was born in Stuttgart and after the end of ...
and
Vinko Globokar
Vinko Globokar (born 7 July 1934) is a French-Slovenian avant-garde composer and trombonist.
Globokar's music uses unconventional and extended techniques, places great emphasis on spontaneity and creativity, and often relies on improvisation. Hi ...
. He is also a conductor and co-director of the ensemble Libra, as well a member of the
ELISION Ensemble.
He also often performs works involving singing and spoken text; Richard Barrett's work ''Interference'' exploits both his vocal and clarinet-playing abilities, and he gave the premiere of
Aaron Cassidy's work for solo voice, ''I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips''. He has also performed concerts featuring nineteenth-century
melodrama works for speaker and piano, notably with pianists
Mark Knoop and
Ian Pace
Ian Geoffrey Pace (born 1968) is a British pianist. Pace studied at Chetham's School of Music, The Queen's College, Oxford and the Juilliard School in New York. His main teacher was the Hungarian pianist György Sándor.
Repertoire
Born in H ...
and sung lieder by Schubert and Schumann. He has recorded for ETCETERA, NMC, and ABC Classics. He has also written on music for periodicals.
He lives in
Cologne
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where he is a member of the ensemble
musikFabrik
The Ensemble Musikfabrik (music factory ensemble) is an ensemble for contemporary classical music located in Cologne. Their official name is Ensemble Musikfabrik Landesensemble NRW e.V. (Ensemble Musikfabrik of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia ...
.
References
External links
Biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rosman, Carl
1971 births
Living people
Australian musicians
Sydney Conservatorium of Music alumni