Kurt Rohde

kerohde@ucdavis.edu
222A Music Building

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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 Rome Prize Elliot Carter Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, and the Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.

His recent projects include a work for puppet theater, a violin concerto for Axel Strauss, a work for speaking pianist for Genevieve Lee, and a piano concerto for Sara Laimon and the new music ensemble Sequitur. He will be a featured composer with Southwest Chamber Music for their "Ascending Dragon" project during the 2090-2010 season.

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 former 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. Mr. Rohde plays with the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and the New Century Chamber Orchestra.

Originally from New York, he now lives in San Francisco with his partner Tim Allen. Visit Rohde's Web site.

Noted Awards
American Academy in Rome, Elliot Carter Rome Prize in Music Composition
Utah Arts Festival, Chamber Music Composition Commission Award
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

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