Gil Rose

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Gil Rose is an American conductor and the founder and Artistic Director of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, a professional orchestra in the United States committed to commissioning, performing, and recording 20th- and 21st-century music. Gil Rose was born in Pittsburgh, PA and received his Bachelor of Music from the University of Cincinnati - College Conservatory of Music. He later enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his Master of Fine Arts degree and Artist Diploma. His teachers include Samuel Jones, Juan Pablo Izquierdo, and Robert Page. In 1996, Rose founded the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), and since then, has served as its Artistic Director. Under Rose's leadership, BMOP has received two John S. Edwards Awards for Strongest Commitment to New American Music and has won eleven ASCAP awards for adventurous orchestral programming. Rose is a recipient of an ASCAP Concert Music award and in 2007, received Columbia University's Ditson Conductor's Award for his commitment to the performance of American music. In 2009, he received a Grammy Award nomination for his direction of Derek Bermel's Voices for solo clarinet and orchestra, which was released in 2009 on the BMOP/sound label.Opera Boston Since 2003, Rose has served as the Artistic Director of Opera Boston, an opera company in residence at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. His performances with Opera Boston include: Luisa Miller (Verdi), Nixon in China (Adams), Alceste (Gluck), The Crucibl

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