Kurt Rohde
 kerohde@ucdavis.edu 220A Music Building Office Hours M 11 am – 1 pm |
Composer and violist Kurt Rohde lives in San Francisco. His music has been described as being “filled with exhilaration and dread. It's a mirror of our times.” (San Jose Mercury News, Richard Scheinin). Recipient of the Charles Ives Fellowship and the Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and commission awards from the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress, the Fromm Foundation of Harvard University, the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Hanson Institute for American Music. He was a recipient of the Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. Recent commissions include a new work for the San Francisco based choral group Volti, a new string quartet for the Cypress String Quartet, a new piece for violinist Iris Stone, a piano concerto for Sara Laimon and the New York based ensemble Sequitur, and a new work for violinist Axel Strauss. Rohde is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, the Curtis Institute of Music and SUNY Stony Brook. He studied composition with Donald Erb, Ned Rorem and Andrew Imbrie, and viola with Karen Tuttle, John Graham and Caroline Levine. He is Artistic Director of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, co-director of the Empyrean Ensemble, and teaches composition and theory at UC Davis. He has taught composition at UC Santa Barbara, was composer in residence at the Yellow Barn Music Festival, and guest composer at the Wellesley Composers Conference. Originally from New York, he now lives in San Francisco with his partner Tim Allen. Visit Rohde's Web site. Noted Awards Berlin Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin Guggenheim Fellowship Charles Ives Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Letters First Prize, International Society of Bassists Composition Contest Barlow Endowment for Music Composition Commission Award National Endowment for the Arts Commission Award Hanson Institute for American Music Commission Award Hinrichsen Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress Commission Award Fromm Foundation of Harvard University Commission Award First Prize, Lydian String Quartet Composition Contest |