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JEROME ROSE, hailed as “the Last Romantic of our own age” and one of America’s most
distinguished pianists, has been heard in major concert halls across five continents.
A Gold Medalist from the International Busoni Competition, Mr. Rose began his international
career while still in his early twenties. His catalogue of critically acclaimed
recordings on Monarch Classics includes the Liszt Concerti with the Budapest Philharmonic,
Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes, the Complete Schumann Sonatas, “Davidsbundlertanze”,
and “Kreisleriana”, the Last Three Beethoven Sonatas, and the Complete Ballades
& Fantasy of Chopin. The complete Chopin Sonatas are released on Sony. In addition,
on Medici Classics are the Schubert Posthumous Sonatas and Wanderer Fantasie; Schubert’s
song cycle “Die Winterreise” recorded with tenor Jon Fredric West; a Liszt album
featuring the B minor Sonata, Don Juan Fantasy and Mephisto Waltz; and a Brahms
recording of Sonata No. 3, and the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. Medici
has recently issued the re-release of Mr. Rose’s Prix du Disque recording of Liszt’s
“Years of Pilgrimage”.
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In addition Medici has released Mr. Rose’s first DVD recordings, already highly
acclaimed: The Four Ballades and Sonatas No. 2 and 3 of Chopin; and the Sonatas
of Beethoven, Opp. 101, 109, 110, and 111. This year Medici will release an all-Schumann
DVD: Humoreske, Fantasie, and Carnaval; followed by an all-Liszt DVD recording.
Mr. Rose’s recordings of Franz Liszt for Vox were awarded the Grand Prix du Disque
from the Liszt Society of Budapest, and the Ministry of Culture of Hungary conferred
on him the Franz Liszt Medal for organizing the comprehensive Liszt Centennial Celebration
in Washington D.C. in 1986. Previously, he served as the Artistic Director of the
International Festival of the Romantics in London, and the Schubert and Brahms Festival
at the Library of Congress. Jerome Rose has appeared with such orchestras as the
Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, and Santa Cecilia, Rome.
A frequent visitor to London, he has appeared with the London Philharmonic, London
Symphony, and the Royal Philharmonic.
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In addition he has been soloist with most major U. S. orchestras such as the Chicago
Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Houston, Baltimore & Atlanta. Conductors include
Sir Georg Solti, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Sir Charles Mackerras, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski,
Sergiu Comissiona, David Zinman, Hans Vonk, Robert Spano, and Christian Thielemann.
He was a pupil of Adolph Baller when, at the age of 15, he debuted with the San
Francisco Symphony. A graduate of the Mannes College and the Juilliard School of
Music, Jerome Rose studied with Leonard Shure and Rudolf Serkin at Marlboro. In
1961 he was a winner of the Concert Artists Guild award and was also a Fulbright
Scholar in Vienna.
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Mr. Rose has given masterclasses at the Moscow Conservatory, the Chopin Academy
in Warsaw, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Munich Hochschule, and the Toho Conservatory
of Music in Tokyo, Japan. He is on the Faculty of the Mannes College of Music and
is Founder/Director of the International Keyboard Institute & Festival held every
summer in New York City. Mr. Rose’s performances at the Festival have been recorded
by WFMT Chicago and NPR for worldwide radio broadcast. Mr. Rose has recently appeared
in recital in Europe, Mexico, and Korea and served on the Faculties at the Ecole
Normale de Musique in Paris, the Tel-Hai Festival in Israel, and the Salzburg Mozarteum.
He has toured major cities in China (Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Chengdu and
Beijing), giving recitals and masterclasses, and will return there this fall for
recitals, classes, and promotion of his 4 volume book “Becoming a Virtuoso”. He
continues this season with masterclass and recital appearances in the US, Israel,
Taiwan, and Europe. Mr. Rose was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music from the
State University of New York for his lifetime achievement in music.
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