Michael Rose (1971- )
Michael
Rose’s compositions have been performed by American Opera Projects and
Eighth Blackbird, among others, at venues across the U.S. and on a
state tour of the Balkans. He has received numerous awards, most
recently from Meet the Composer and a Fulbright for study in Kerala,
India for the 2006-07 academic year. Upcoming premieres include
performances by the Richmond County Orchestra, Inoue Chamber Ensemble,
Momenta Quartet, cellist Juho Laitinen at Merkin Hall, and a recording
of Grimm’s tales by soprano Christine Moore. Rose has taught piano,
composition, and theory at the Brooklyn Conservatory since 1995 and is
founder and organizer of the conservatory’s New Music Collective
concert series. He was in residence at the artists' community
"Yaddo" during the summer of 2011.COMPOSITIONS Michael Rose Links ~ ~ ~ Works by Genre
Student (1993-94) works include:
a movement for string quartet
a solo violin piece
a short orchestral work
and a quartet for clarinet
trombone, violin, and marimba
Five Etudes, piano (1997)
"~" ("tilde"), trombone and percussion (1998)
A Life In a Place, incidental music, violin, guitar and percussion (1999) [for the play by Catherine Scarboro]
Song, soprano and piano (1999) [text: Christina Rossetti]
A Beckett Cycle (5 songs), mezzo-soprano, violin, cello and piano (2000) [text: Samuel Beckett]
Sancta Maria, chorus and prepared piano (2001)
Prelude, Aria, and Fugue, piano (2002)
Two Movements for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, and Cello (2002)
Dirge, soprano and piano (2002) [text: Percy Bysshe Shelley]
Sonnet to Orpheus II/29, mezzo-soprano and piano (2002) [text: Rainer Maria Rilke]
Spanische Tanzerin, mezzo-soprano and piano (2002) [text: Rainer Maria Rilke]
Mirror in February, tenor and piano (2002) [text: Thomas Kinsella]
Olson Triptych, baritone and piano (2002) [text: Charles Olson]
Kyrie, voice, cello and piano (2002)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, mezzo-soprano and piano (2003) [text: Wallace Stevens]
Burgundy’s Grasslands, bass-baritone and prepared piano (2003) [text: Adam Zagajewski]
The Marriage of the Frog and the Mouse, coloratura soprano and piano (2003) [text: anonymous Elizabethan poem]
In Holy Week, low voice and piano (2003) [text: Boris Pasternak]
Ugetsu, opera scene after Mizoguchi’s film, soprano, baritone, and piano (2003) [libretto: Alex Halberstadt]
- Wakasa's Lullaby, soprano and piano
- It is not so difficult/fire blood, soprano and piano
Gridlock, bass clarinet (2004)
Dance, Sungo, Dance, orchestra (2004)
Nara Cycle, alto flute and percussion (2005)
Fists of Fury, piano (2005)
Offertory, piano (2005)
(untitled), sliding-mouthpiece flute and trombone (2005)
Toy Suite, sliding-mouthpiece flute and trombone (2005)
Wedding Rag, piano (2006)
Ice, piano 4-hands and percussion (2006)
(untitled), roto-toms and hi-hat (2006)
Der Panther, bass-baritone and piano (2006) [text: Rainer Maria Rilke]
Mohini Thinks of Leaving, piano with ankle bells (2007)
- Mohini Thinks of Leaving, string quartet with ankle bells (2007)
The Generous Enemy, female voice and piano (2007) [text: Jorge Luis Borges]
Lullaby, female voice and piano (2007) [text: Elizabeth Bishop]
- Lullaby, female voice and string quartet (2009) [text: Elizabeth Bishop]
Josquin redux, piano (2008)
Rake’s Progress, wind quintet arrangements of Stravinsky’s score (2008)
Year Zero, cello (2008)
Q’s Songbook, student-level piano pieces (2003-ongoing)
Quartet, flute, clarinet, violin and cello (2002-09)
Was bist du doch, o Seele, so betrubet, variations on a Bach chorale, wind quintet (2009)
Aisha, voice and cello (2009) [arr. of Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F minor, mvt. II] [text: Angelique Kidjo]
flower of the underworld, chorus with Indian hand cymbals (2009) [text: Charles Olson]
Tree of Old Age, [voice and piano] (????) [text: ancient Aztec writing]
WORKS BY GENRE Michael Rose Links ~ top of page ~
Dramatic/Theater
Ugetsu, opera scene after Mizoguchi’s film, soprano, baritone, and piano (2003) [libretto: Alex Halberstadt]
Orchestra
Dance, Sungo, Dance, orchestra (2004)
Choral
Sancta Maria, chorus and prepared piano (2001)
flower of the underworld, chorus with Indian hand cymbals (2009) [text: Charles Olson]
Chamber
"~" ("tilde"), trombone and percussion (1998)
A Life In a Place, incidental music, violin, guitar and percussion (1999) [for the play by Catherine Scarboro]
Two Movements for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, and Cello (2002)
Nara Cycle, alto flute and percussion (2005)
(untitled), sliding-mouthpiece flute and trombone (2005)
Toy Suite, sliding-mouthpiece flute and trombone (2005)
Ice, piano 4-hands and percussion (2006)
Mohini Thinks of Leaving, string quartet with ankle bells (2007)
Rake’s Progress, wind quintet arrangements of Stravinsky’s score (2008)
Quartet, flute, clarinet, violin and cello (2002-09)
Was bist du doch, o Seele, so betrubet, variations on a Bach chorale, wind quintet (2009)
Solo Instrument
Gridlock, bass clarinet (2004)
(untitled), roto-toms and hi-hat (2006)
Year Zero, cello (2008)
Piano
Five Etudes, piano (1997)
Prelude, Aria, and Fugue, piano (2002)
Fists of Fury, piano (2005)
Offertory, piano (2005)
Wedding Rag, piano (2006)
Mohini Thinks of Leaving, piano with ankle bells (2007)
Josquin redux, piano (2008)
Q’s Songbook, student-level piano pieces (2003-ongoing)
Vocal
Song, soprano and piano (1999) [text: Christina Rossetti]
A Beckett Cycle (5 songs), mezzo-soprano, violin, cello and piano (2000) [text: Samuel Beckett]
Dirge, soprano and piano (2002) [text: Percy Bysshe Shelley]
Sonnet to Orpheus II/29, mezzo-soprano and piano (2002) [text: Rainer Maria Rilke]
Spanische Tanzerin, mezzo-soprano and piano (2002) [text: Rainer Maria Rilke]
Mirror in February, tenor and piano (2002) [text: Thomas Kinsella]
Olson Triptych, baritone and piano (2002) [text: Charles Olson]
Kyrie, voice, cello and piano (2002)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, mezzo-soprano and piano (2003) [text: Wallace Stevens]
Burgundy’s Grasslands, bass-baritone and prepared piano (2003) [text: Adam Zagajewski]
The Marriage of the Frog and the Mouse, coloratura soprano and piano (2003) [text: anonymous Elizabethan poem]
In Holy Week, low voice and piano (2003) [text: Boris Pasternak]
Ugetsu, opera scene after Mizoguchi’s film, soprano, baritone, and piano (2003) [libretto: Alex Halberstadt]
also:
- Wakasa's Lullaby, soprano and piano
- It is not so difficult/fire blood, soprano and piano
Der Panther, bass-baritone and piano (2006) [text: Rainer Maria Rilke]
The Generous Enemy, female voice and piano (2007) [text: Jorge Luis Borges]
Lullaby, female voice and piano (2007) [text: Elizabeth Bishop]
- Lullaby, female voice and string quartet (2009) [text: Elizabeth Bishop]
Aisha, voice and cello (2009) [arr. of Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F minor, mvt. II] [text: Angelique Kidjo]
Tree of Old Age, [voice and piano] (????) [text: ancient Aztec writing]
Incidental/Film
A Life In a Place, incidental music, violin, guitar and percussion (1999) [for the play by Catherine Scarboro]
Also numerous (20 or so) original jazz tunes and arrangements (1989-2005)
MICHAEL ROSE LINKS Works by Genre ~ top of page ~
Composer's website [none at the moment] . . . contact Michael Rose: yeolde3eyes(at)yahoo(dot)com
Michael Rose @ American Opera Projects
Michael Rose @ Cultural Centre of Novi Sad (in Serbian)
Michael Rose @ Richmond County Orchestra
Michael Rose @ South Oxford Six
Michael Rose @ Upcoming/Momenta Quartet
Publisher
Michael Rose @ yeolde3eyes(at)yahoo(dot)com
Streaming Audio
[none at the moment]
Recordings
"You Can Count on Me" (Michael Rose, arranger) - on Angélique Kidjo's "Oyo" (Razor & Tie, 2009)
Video
[none at the moment]
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