Gregory Rose (born April 18, 1948) is a conductor, composer, arranger, and music director. He has conducted orchestral, choral and ensemble premieres throughout Europe and the Far East.

Musical education and training

Gregory Rose studied violin, piano and singing as a young child and was a pupil of

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(Vienna Academy) and

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(Oxford University), both former students of Arnold Schoenberg, and of his father, the late Bernard Rose.

Conductor

Choral

Rose's conducting repertoire ranges from

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(of the

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) to premieres which have included his own works. He began conducting choirs whilst a student at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was an 'Academical Clerk' (Choral scholar) under the direction of his father, the conductor, composer, scholar and teacher, Bernard Rose. Since then, his choral conducting has included concerts and recordings with Europe's finest choirs, including the Groupe Vocal de France, the

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, the Netherlands Radio Choir, the Netherlands Kamerkoor, the Westdeutscher Rundfunkchor (West German Radio Chorus) and the

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (EPCC) is a professional choir based in Estonia. It was founded in 1981 by Tõnu Kaljuste, who was its conductor for twenty years. In 2001, Paul Hillier followed Kaljuste's tenure, becoming the EPCC's princi ...

. He has conducted many a cappella programmes, including all-Russian works for the Netherland Radio Choir and the BBC Singers, and a programme of Janáček and

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with the

Opera

In the 1990s he was Chorus Master at the Wexford International Opera Festival in Ireland. Since then he has conducted many operas, including the British stage premieres of Scott Joplin's ''Treemonisha'',

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's ''Beatrice Cenci'', '' Vision of Lear'' by

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and "Syllable" by

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. He has conducted operas by

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, Poulenc, Stravinsky, Scott Joplin,

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, Samuel Barber,

Nino Rota Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota (), was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visco ...

, Gian Carlo Menotti,

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and

Orchestral

Following his appointment as conductor to various choirs, including the

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and

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, he began to conduct orchestras, particularly in

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, the Baltic states,

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, Russia and Sri Lanka. Rose has conducted the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra (Russia), the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, The

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR), is one of Poland's radio orchestra and premier musical institutions. It was founded in 1935 in Warsaw. In 1945 the orchestra was re-established in Katowice and since 2006 it has become a "Nati ...

and London Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestras of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ireland, and the Tapiola Sinfonietta. In the 1980s he formed his own professional chamber orchestra, Jupiter Orchestra, with whom he has appeared at concerts, featuring contemporary composition, in London and the Provinces. In 1999 he was appointed conductor of the pioneering CoMA London Ensemble and he has conducted numerous premieres with the ensemble at concerts in London and at many festivals, including the Spitalfields,

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and

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's ''Sounds New'' Festivals. Recently the ensemble made its debut in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Highlights of his conducting career include conducting the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra in the Philharmonic Hall, the Baltic premieres of Nielsen's Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5, the Baltic premiere of Elgar's ''Dream of Gerontius'', recording with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, a performance of

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's ''The Bells'' in the Royal Festival Hall, London and recording with the National Polish Radio Orchestra in Katowice. In March 2009 a performance of

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's ''Requiem'' that he conducted with the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka attracted an audience of 2,000 people.

Composer

Rose has composed works for orchestra, including ''Tapiola Sunrise'', ''Birthday Ode for Aaron Copland'', ''Cristalflood'' and ''Thambapani'', as well as for chorus. His ''Missa Sancta Pauli Apostoli'' won the liturgical section of the British Composer Awards 200

His large-scale music-theatre work, ''Danse macabre'', was premiered in Tallinn, Estonia in October 2011. He is a specialist in the music of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, having completed his Violin Concerto, which he recorded on the

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label with Aleksandr Trostiansky and the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked closely with composers such as

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th and early 21st-century ...

, John Cage, Steve Reich, Christian Wolff and Stephen Montague, and has appeared in festivals throughout Europe, including two BBC Promenade concerts with Singcircle. He has recorded for many international television and radio stations, and has made recordings for Chandos, Hyperion, Wergo, Continuum and October Music. As a composer, Rose's works mainly cover the orchestral, choral and chamber repertoires and his works have been published by Boosey & Hawkes, Oxford University Press, Novello and Colla Voce. His orchestral works include ''Tapiola Sunrise'', ''Birthday Ode for Aaron Copland'', ''Cristalflood'' and ''Thambapani''. In the choral field he has composed 5 sets of Evening Canticles and 10 masses, including his ''Missa Sancta Pauli Apostoli'', which won the liturgical section of the British Composer Awards 2006. Other masses include ''Missa Sancti Dunstani'' and ''Missa Sancta Beornwaldi''. His large-scale music-theatre work,

Danse macabre The ''Danse Macabre'' (; ) (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death. The ''Danse Macabre'' consists of the dead, or a personification of ...

was premiered in Tallinn, Estonia in October 2011 in front of an audience of around 1,000 by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and instrumentalists. His Violin Concerto received its premiere with Peter Sheppard Skærved as soloist at his 70th Birthday concert in London in April 2018, and has been recorded. Future works include an opera called ''The Dream Seller''.

Arranger

Rose made orchestral arrangements on 5 tracks for

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on her ''Heart Like A Wheel'' album, including the best selling single ''You're No Good''. He arranged a couple of tracks for Deaf School, including ''Taxi'' and the Madness single ''Night Boat To Cairo''. More recently he arranged and conducted on Diana Ross's ''I Love You'' album. In the classical field he completed the ''Violin Concerto'' by

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's contemporary Johann Nepomuk Hummel, the premiere of which he conducted in St John's, Smith Square, London in June 1998, with Jaakko Kusisto and the Jupiter Orchestra. It is published by Artaria Editions, Wellington, New Zealand. Rose conducted the work on a Naxos CD with Alexander Trostiansky and the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra in Moscow.

Director

In 1977, Gregory Rose directed Singcircle in a performance of Stockhausen's ''Stimmung'' at the Round House – the first performances of the work outside the original ensemble, the Collegium Vocales of Cologne. Subsequently Singcircle made a recording of that performance on the Hyperion Label. In 1978, they performed at the BBC Promenade concerts in the Royal Albert Hall. In 1985, Singcircle performed this work at the Barbican Centre with

himself at the

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. Rose has directed Singcircle in over 50 performances of Stockhausen's ''Stimmung'' throughout Europe. A BBC film about the work featuring Singcircle, 'Tuning In', was made in the 1980s. Rose was director of the ''CAGE AT 70'' concerts, the Almeida Festival in 1982, during which time he made a film about Cage with Peter Greenaway for Channel 4, as part of the ''Four Composers'' series of films. In 1984 he directed another Almeida Festival series of concerts for Steve Reich's 50th birthday, ''REICH AT 50'' and subsequently conducted several Reich works in collaboration with the composer, including performances of ''Tehillim''. He was also Music Director for two of international designer

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's London shows. Rose is currently the Music Director of the Jupiter Orchestra, Jupiter Singers, Singcircle and CoMA London Ensemble.

Teacher

Gregory Rose is a Professor of conducting and a staff conductor at

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Compositions

*Everlasting Mary (SATB carol, 1969) oosey & Hawkes*Vespers for Mary Magdalen (SATB, 1970) ovello*Colours (1970) *God's Strange Ways (SATB, 1971) oosey & Hawkes*Animals etcetera (voices, 1971) oosey & Hawkes*It's snowing (1972) oosey & Hawkes*Carol (snow fell softly down) (1973) *The Bald Twit Lion (Spike Milligan, music-theatre, 1973) *Songs for a little child (soloists, 2 choirs, ensemble, 1973) *peace music (SATB 1974) *Four Groups for use in the classroom or for audience participation (aleatory music, 1974) ovello*Three Carols (1974–93) Shepherds' Carol; Manger Carol; Bells Carol *Missa Brevis (SATB, 1975) *Diary (children's voices on tape, 1975) *Colours II (organ, 1976) *Earth Rituals (1978) *After Malevich (solo violin, 1979) *Dum transisset (SATB, 1979) *Study: Protest & Survive (instrumental ensemble, 1980) *Synapse (violin & keyboard, 1980) *…to the holy goddess, Sulis (2 amplified voices, 1981) *Fanfare (5 brass, 1983) *Birthday Ode for Aaron Copland (orchestra, 1990) *Tapiola Sunrise (string orchestra, 1998) *Cristalflood (voices, orchestra, 2001) *Thambapanni (orchestra, with Kandy drummers, 2004) *Paliopoli, Stone Study (pebbles, 2005) *Second Delphic Hymn (strings, 2005) *Sainte Marie (brass & string orch, 2005–07) *Missa Sancta Pauli Apostoli (SATB org, 2006) olla Voce*Missa Sacré Coeur (choirs and orch, 2007) *Evening Canticles, Second Service (Sops and org, 2007) *St Pancras Canticles, Third Service (SSATB, 2007) *A Song of Judith (SSA org, 2007) olla Voce*String Studies, Book 1 (solo Vc, 2007) *Versicles & Responses (SATB, 2007) *Music for a Kytherian Amphitheatre (solo Pf, 2007–08) *A Great Multitude (SATB org, 2008) *Clarifica me Pater (SATB Cl and strings, 2008) *Sha'alu Shlom Yerushalayim (SSA & harp, 2008) *Missa Sancti Dunstani (SATB, 2009) *Missa Sancti Beornwaldi (SATB, 2009) *After Malevich 2 (instrumental ensemble, 2009) *Blonde Aphrodite Rose Up Quite Naked (2010) *Evening Canticles, Fifth Service, 'The Bells' (SATB org, 2011) *Mizmor Kaf Gimmel (voice and keyboard/harp) (2011) *

(music theatre, 2011) *La Naissance d'Aphrodite (soprano and ensemble, 2011)

Orchestrations/arrangements

*Erik Satie '' Le Fils des étoiles'' (chamber orchestra) *Erik Satie Salut drapeau! (chamber orchestra) *Erik Satie '' Pièces froides'' III (string orchestra) *Sibelius Christmas Songs Op.1 (orchestra) *Copland Three Old American Songs (string orchestra) *Purcell Three pieces: Rondeau; Slow Air; Air (winds, brass & string orchestra) *Schubert Three pieces: Andantino; Serenade; Allegro moderato (string orchestra) *Gail Laughton Bicycle Riders (string orchestra 2006) *Haydn Symphony No. 53 (string orchestra) *Sumer Is Icumen In (string orchestra) *Three Medieval Motets (string orchestra) *Gluck Overture: Iphigénie en Aulide (string orchestra 2008) *First Delphic Hymn (strings) *Tchaikovsky Two movements from String Quartet No. 1 (string orchestra) *John Tavener Little Missenden Calm (string orchestra) *Three Machaut Rondeaux

Arrangements for choir

*Copland The Golden Willow Tree (SATB) oosey & Hawkes*Berlin White Christmas (SATB) *Gershwin Love is here (SATB) *Gershwin A foggy day (SATB) *Gershwin The Man I love (SATB) *Gershwin Summertime (SATB) *Cole Porter Ev'ry time we say goodbye (SATB) *Vivien Ellis Spread a little happiness (SATB) *Fredereick Rzewski Struggle Song (SATB, 1983)

References

External links

Gregory Rose Website
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