{{Short description|American conductor}} '''Gil Rose''' is the founder and conductor of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP),<ref name="boston globe 2015-10-15">{{cite news |last=Weininger |first=David |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/10/15/gil-rose-bmop-celebrate-years-audacity-excellence/lq3j6VLAfNOjaWLkTnBBhJ/story.html |title=Gil Rose, BMOP celebrate 20 years of audacity, excellence |work=Boston Globe |date=2015-10-15 |accessdate=2015-10-15 }}</ref> founder and General-Artistic Director of Odyssey Opera, Artistic Director of Monadnock Music Festival, Professor of Practice at Northeastern University, and Executive Producer of the record label "BMOP/sound."<ref name="Globe 2015 May">{{cite news |last=Sutherland |first=Amy |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/05/14/bibliophiles-gil-rose-artistic-director-monadnock-music-festival/YgD2jjFFkqsOpwyy7bcjvM/story.html |title=Conductor Gil Rose reads more when rehearsals are intense |work=Boston Globe |date=2015-05-14 |accessdate=2015-10-15 }}</ref>
== Early life and education == Rose was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and received his Bachelor of Music from the University of Cincinnati – College Conservatory of Music. He later studied at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his Master of Fine Arts degree and Artist Diploma.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}
== Boston Modern Orchestra Project == Rose founded the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) in 1996 and has since then served as the artistic director of a group lauded as "one of the country's leading contemporary music ensembles."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Coombs|first1=Daniel|title=Notes from the Underground; You Have the Right to Remain Silent; Wayang V – J.D. Parran, clarinet/Earl Howard, Kurzweil keyboard/Anthony Davis, p./Boston Modern Orch. Project/Gil Rose – BMOP|work=Audiophile Audition|date=20 May 2014|quote = Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project once again prove why they are one of the country's leading contemporary music ensembles.}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ascap.com/press/2009/0611_orchestra_awards|title=ASCAP ANNOUNCES YEAR 2009 ORCHESTRA AWARDS FOR "ADVENTUROUS PROGRAMMING" AT LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO|website=Ascap.com|accessdate=4 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ascap.com/press/2010/0618_orchestra-awards|title=ASCAP Announces Year 2010 Orchestra Awards For "Adventurous Programming" at League of American Orchestras Conference in Atlanta|website=Ascap.com|accessdate=4 January 2019}}</ref> In 2015 it was named Musical America's 2016 Ensemble of the Year.<ref name="musical america 2015">{{cite news |last=Elliott |first=Susan |url=http://www.musicalamerica.com/news/newsstory.cfm?storyid=34958&categoryid=2&archived=0 |title=Musical America announces 2016 Artists of the Year |work=Musical America Worldwide |date=2015-10-14 |accessdate=2015-10-15}}</ref> Composer John Harbison has said that "No other city has anything resembling BMOP — with that level of activity, with that sustained productivity ... There's really been no new-music organization with a wider range of inclusion."<ref name="boston globe 2015-10-15"/> Paul Griffiths has also praised the ensemble, writing in The New York Times in 2000 that "Mr. Rose and his team filled the music with rich, decisive ensemble colors and magnificent solos ... These musicians were rapturous ... superb instrumentalists at work and play."<ref>{{cite news | last=Griffiths|first=Paul |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/30/arts/music-review-poetry-in-songs-reflecting-sun-and-moon.html| title=Poetry in Songs Reflecting Sun and Moon| work=The New York Times |date= 30 March 2000|accessdate= 16 October 2015 |quote=The Boston Modern Orchestra Project...is extremely able and musical...Mr. Rose and his team filled the music with rich, decisive ensemble colors and magnificent solos. In scores whose dominant expressive position is one of rapture, these musicians were rapturous.}}</ref>
== Odyssey Opera == Rose founded Odyssey Opera in 2013 in order to bring audiences "on a journey, maybe to ports of call they haven't been to before";<ref>{{cite news |last=Shea |first=Andrea |url=http://artery.wbur.org/2013/09/13/odyssey-opera-rienzi |title=With A Bold Choice, Boston Upstart Steps Into The Risky Opera Business |work=90.9 WBUR: Boston's NPR News Station |location=Boston |date=2013-09-13 |accessdate=2015-10-16 |quote='The reason I called it Odyssey Opera was because I wanted to project that we were going to go on a journey, and I wanted to take the audience on a journey, maybe to ports of call they haven't been to before,' (Gil Rose said) |archive-date=2015-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906005047/http://artery.wbur.org/2013/09/13/odyssey-opera-rienzi |url-status=dead }}</ref> the company has gained an "enthusiastic following"<ref name="wbur 2015">{{cite news |last=Schwartz |first=Lloyd |url=http://artery.wbur.org/2015/05/11/odyssey-opera |title=Odyssey Opera Rounds Out Second Season With A 'British Invasion' |work=90.9 WBUR: Boston's NPR News Station |location=Boston |date=2015-05-11 |accessdate=2015-10-16 |quote=From the ashes of the sadly departed Opera Boston has arisen an exciting new company that has been winning an increasingly enthusiastic following. Odyssey Opera completes its unconventional second season, which began last September with a sold-out and widely admired concert version of Korngold's lush romantic masterpiece "Die Tote Stadt" ("The Dead City"), with what it's calling "British Invasion." |archive-date=2015-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906071343/http://artery.wbur.org/2015/05/11/odyssey-opera |url-status=dead }}</ref> for its productions of rarely performed works under his artistic and musical direction – from large, grand concert operas to fully staged contemporary chamber operas.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rosenberg |first=Marion |url=http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/317894-boston-opera-wicked-good-odyssey-opera-founder/ |title=Boston Opera? It's Wicked Good, Says Odyssey Opera Founder |work=WQXR |date=2013-09-12 |accessdate=2015-10-16 |quote=Ideally, every September I'd like to do something like Rienzi: a large concert opera that nobody in Boston could stage. Then we'd turn to staged operas but on a more intimate scale and in a festival format: three or four titles presented over the course of several weeks in May or June, representing a cross-section of styles, from early music to contemporary. }}</ref> The inaugural season began with a performance of Wagner's ''Rienzi'', while 2014 saw a "triumphal"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2014/09/20/odyssey-opera-agile-newcomer-tests-uncharted-waters/pnmPvO3EwnrOha70TlishK/story.html|last1=Smith|first1=Steve|title=An agile newcomer tests uncharted waters|accessdate=16 October 2015|work=Boston Globe|date=2014-09-21| quote = Just over a year later, the upstart organization has notched further triumphs: an ambitious, satisfying trifecta of underexposed Italian operas by Verdi, Mascagni, and Wolf-Ferrari, fully staged in June, and a triumphal concert rendition of Korngold's grandly gorgeous, melancholy masterpiece, "Die Tote Stadt", presented to rapturous response at a sold-out Jordan Hall earlier this month.}}</ref> concert performance (and Boston premiere) of Korngold's ''Die tote Stadt''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Schwartz |first=Lloyd |url=http://artery.wbur.org/2015/09/14/odyssey-opera-le-cid |title=Welcome Back, Odyssey Opera: Massenet's 'Le Cid' In Concert At Jordan Hall |work=90.9 WBUR: Boston's NPR News Station |location=Boston |date=2015-09-14 |accessdate=2015-10-16 |quote=Two years ago, Rose inaugurated Odyssey Opera with Wagner's early epic "Rienzi." Last year it was Korngold's gorgeous romance "Die tote Stadt" ("The Dead City"). That performance justifiably sold out. And this year's rarity is a major work by the French composer Jules Massenet, "Le Cid." |archive-date=2015-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151027061502/http://artery.wbur.org/2015/09/14/odyssey-opera-le-cid |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2015 the group performed the "enthusiastically cheered"<ref>{{cite news |last=Ledbetter |first=Steven |url=http://www.classical-scene.com/2015/09/21/le-cid-odyssey/ |title=Machismo and Passion in Grand Opera Style |work=The Boston Musical Intelligencer |location=Boston|date=2013-09-21 |accessdate=2015-10-16 |quote=Those who packed Jordan Hall enthusiastically cheered this welcome encounter with a production of such skill and energy. }}</ref> Boston premiere of Massenet's "Le Cid" under Rose's baton at the New England Conservatory of Music's Jordan Hall.<ref name="boston classical">{{cite news |last=Wright |first=David |url=http://bostonclassicalreview.com/2015/09/odyssey-opera-goes-long-and-large-with-massenets-le-cid/ |title=Odyssey Opera goes long and large with Massenet's "Le Cid" |work=Boston Classical Review |location=Boston|date=2015-09-19 |accessdate=2015-10-15 |quote=Conductor Gil Rose was something of a Cid himself on the podium Friday, marshaling his large forces in the seemingly-endless series of crashing climaxes typical of this genre.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Eichler |first=Jeremy |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/09/21/massenet/ZEiAmgRpuj54YnuCMaDEHK/story.html |title=A local premiere for Massenet's 'Le Cid' |work=Boston Globe |date=2015-09-21 |accessdate=2015-10-15 |quote=Massenet's opera, introduced in 1885, enjoyed decades of success but seems to have summarily disappeared after 1919. It has been heard in just a small handful of modern performances in this country. Friday was its Boston premiere. }}</ref>
== Opera Boston == From 2003 to its closure in 2012, Rose served as the artistic director of Opera Boston. His performances with the ensemble included Verdi's ''Luisa Miller'', Beethoven's ''Fidelio'',<ref>{{cite news |last=Eichler |first=Jeremy |url=http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2010/09/12/critics_picks_classical_music/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100927093944/http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2010/09/12/critics_picks_classical_music/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 27, 2010 |title=Classical Music: Critic's Picks |work=Boston Globe |date=2010-09-21 |accessdate=2015-10-15 |quote=OPERA BOSTON: Christine Goerke sings Leonore and Michael Hendrick is Florestan in Thaddeus Strassberger's new production of Beethoven's ''Fidelio''. Gil Rose conducts. }}</ref> John Adams's ''Nixon in China'', Gluck's ''Alceste'' (featuring Dawn Upshaw), Shostakovich's ''The Nose'', Weber's ''Der Freischütz'', Smetana's ''The Bartered Bride'', Rossini's ''Tancredi'' (featuring Ewa Podleś), and the world premiere of ''Madame White Snake'' (with music by Zhou Long).
== Other performances == Rose has curated the Fromm Concert Series at Harvard University and served as the Artistic Director of the 2008 Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hudson-housatonic-arts.org/2008/10/ditson-festival-contemporary-music-ica-boston/|title=The Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music at the ICA Boston - Hudson-Housatonic Arts|website=Hudson-housatonic.-arts.org|date=19 October 2008 |accessdate=4 January 2019}}</ref> 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 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bso.org/bso/mods/press_detail.jsp?id=5800002 |title=Boston Symphony Orchestra |access-date=2010-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719165744/http://www.bso.org/bso/mods/press_detail.jsp?id=5800002 |archive-date=2011-07-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
From 2003 to 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 he conducted an acclaimed North American premiere of Peter Eötvös's ''Angels in America'' with Opera Unlimited.<ref>{{cite news |last=Holland |first=Bernard |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/arts/music/19ange.html?_r=0 |title='Angels in America,' Already Operatic, Is Now Presented as an Opera |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2006-06-19 |accessdate=2015-10-15 |quote=Gil Rose conducted with admirable command. }}</ref>
As an educator, Rose was the director of Orchestral Activities at Tufts University for five years. In 2013, he joined the faculty of Northeastern University as a Professor of Practice of Music.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northeastern.edu/camd/music/2015/05/13/gil-rose-odyssey-operas-british-invasion/ |title=Gil Rose and Odyssey Opera's "British Invasion" |date=2015-05-13 |accessdate=2015-10-16 |archive-date=2015-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906125213/http://www.northeastern.edu/camd/music/2015/05/13/gil-rose-odyssey-operas-british-invasion/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Rose conducted performances of ''Death and the Powers'', an opera by Tod Machover 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 took place in Boston with the American Repertory Theater in 2011, followed by a performance at the Chicago Opera Theater later that year.<ref>{{cite news |last=Porter |first=Andrew |url=http://www.opera.co.uk/view-review.php?reviewID=40 |title=Monte-Carlo: Death and the Powers |work=Opera Magazine |date=2010 |accessdate=2015-10-15 |quote=The band of only 15, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conducted by Gil Rose (September 25), could fill the theatre with rich 'grand-opera' sound when appropriate. }}</ref>
Rose serves as executive producer of BMOP/sound, a recipient of 2009, 2010, and 2011 Grammy Award nomations. He is also 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. 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''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/ref/arts/2008holidayclassical.html|title=Best Classical CDs - NYTimes.com|first1=Vivien|last1=Schweitzer|first2=James R.|last2=Oestreich|first3=Anthony|last3=Tommasini|first4=Allan|last4=Kozinn|website=Archive.nytimes.com|accessdate=4 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork|title=Time Out New York|website=Time Out New York|accessdate=4 January 2019}}</ref>
==See also== * Boston Modern Orchestra Project * Odyssey Opera * Opera Boston
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.gilrose.info Gil Rose: Official Website] * [http://www.bmop.org Boston Modern Orchestra Project] * [http://www.odysseyopera.org/ Odyssey Opera]
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