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 michael alec rose composer of contemporary concert music
michael alec rose

michael alec rose composes chamber and symphonic music .
he is associate professor of composition at vanderbilt university 's blair school of music .
his awards and commissions include the walter w. naumburg foundation 's chamber music commission , for which he composed his `` string quartet no. 2 '' , premiered by the meliora quartet at lincoln center and the library of congress ; a commission from the international spoleto festival for a violin-cello duo ; twenty-five consecutive annual awards in composition from the american society of composers , authors , and publishers , 1986 -- 2010 ; string quartet commissions from the blair and mendelssohn quartets ; and three commissioned performances by the nashville symphony , including `` symphony no. 1-paths of peace '' -lrb- 2000 -rrb- .
rose 's `` interferon , or piano concerto '' was performed by two orchestras in the czech republic in 2001 .
two ballets commissioned by the nashville ballet were premiered in 2003-2004 .
`` the pedagogy of grief '' -lrb- viola sonata no. 3 -rrb- was first performed at the peabody institute of music , baltimore , in 2005 .
`` arguing with god : concerto for klezmer and chamber orchestra '' received its first performance in march 2007 , by the nashville chamber orchestra and brave old world , the klezmer group .
this concerto was the culminating event of that year 's american jewish music festival .
`` graces , furies '' , commissioned for the carolina piano trio , was premiered by them in three cities in north carolina in may 2007 , with further performances throughout the united states in 2008 .
rose is the co-founder and co-director of an international exchange program involving the royal academy of music in london and glasgow -lrb- ram and rsamd -rrb- and the blair school of music : `` collaborative composition in london '' .
he has twice visited ram as guest composer , with performances of his music at various london sites .
several of his works have also been featured at the tate st. ives gallery in cornwall .
among the many new works commissioned for these u.k. performances are `` hubbert peak : three gas stations for string quartet '' and `` dr. johnson and mr. savage : pantomime for violinist and cellist '' -lrb- both for members of the kreutzer quartet , in residence at ram -rrb- .
both these works were premiered in the spring of 2008 at london 's recently rediscovered victorian vaudeville theatre , wilton 's music hall .
other works by rose sprung from the exchange program have been performed in mexico , kosovo , macedonia , under the dome of st. paul 's cathedral , and in the enlightenment gallery of the british museum .
rose 's `` pastoral concerto for violin and orchestra '' -- commissioned by his exchange program co-director , violinist peter sheppard skaerved -- was premiered with sheppard skaerved as soloist and the vanderbilt orchestra , under the direction of robin fountain , in november 2008 .
a further outgrowth of rose 's exchange program work is `` the periodic table '' -lrb- chamber concerto for piano and eight players -rrb- , for pianist aaron shorr , head of keyboards at the rsamd in glasgow , where the concerto was premiered in june , 2009 .
two more works were premiered in wiltons music hall in 2009 : `` everything under the sun : four seasons for two violins '' , and `` an arch never sleeps '' for violin and double bass , featuring virtuoso bassist chi-chi nwanoku .
in 2010 , rose published `` audible signs : essays from a musical ground '' -lrb- continuum books -rrb- and composed `` five bucolics '' for tenor tony boutté , a setting of poems by maurice manning .
rose graduated from the university of pennsylvania and studied with pulitzer prize-winning composers george crumb and richard wernick , as well as with george rochberg and samuel adler .
rose has won several major teaching awards at vanderbilt , including the prestigious chair of teaching excellence .
