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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; 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 also issued the re-release of Mr. Rose’s Prix du Disque recording of
Liszt’s “Years of Pilgrimage”. 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.
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This year
Medici also released an all-Schumann DVD: Humoreske, Fantasie, and Carnaval; and
an all-Liszt DVD recording including the Sonata, Bénédiction, Funérailles, Petrarch
Sonnets, and Vallée d’Obermann. 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. 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.
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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.
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.
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Faculties at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, the Tel-Hai Festival in Israel,
and the Salzburg Mozarteum. He is also in demand as a juror in major international
competition. He has toured major cities in China (Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou,
Chengdu and Beijing), giving recitals and masterclasses, and returned there this
past fall for recitals, classes, and promotion of his 4 volume book “Becoming a
Virtuoso”. Last season he had masterclass and recital appearances in the US, Israel,
Taiwan, and Europe. This season he will appear in recital in the US, Korea, 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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