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First name: Kurt
Last name: Rohde
Dates:
Category: Quartet
Nationality: american
Opus name: Pianoquartet (1996)
Publisher: amc
Peculiarities: See: http://library.newmusicusa.org/library/composition.aspx?CompositionID=114408; and: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=kw%3Apiano+quartet&fq=x0%3Amsscr&dblist=638&start=91&qt=page_number_link
Information: Mr. Rohde is a graduate of the Peabody Institute 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 has attended the Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and has participated as a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and the Wellesley Composer Conference. Kurt Rohde is the former Artistic Director of the San Francisco based Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. He plays viola in The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, as well as The New Century Chamber Orchestra. Kurt Rohde has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is Associate Professor of music composition and theory at the University of California, Davis, where he is co-director of the Empyrean Ensemble. Originally from New York, Kurt Rohde currently resides in San Francisco with his partner, Timothy Allen. He is an active violist, performing a wide variety of new music, and will be a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2012-2013. You can also follow Kurt Rohde on Facebook.