DR JEREMY ROSE
Born 1984, Sydney | www.jeremyrose.com.au
CAREER SUMMARY
Jeremy Rose a Sydney/Gadigal based woodwind specialist, composer, band leader, label and festival director, whose music explores the intersection of socio-culture and genre, creating interesting and unique collaborative projects that span the globe. His music has been performed at festivals around Australia, Europe and the UK, and has relentlessly toured throughout Australia. Jeremy’s music often displays influences from folk, contemporary classical and intercultural music in a jazz context, with the result being lyrical yet highly inventive music. Jeremy’s vision is to be an artistic leader and champion of Australian jazz and adventurous music, providing leadership and a global reach for Australian music.
CURRENT ENGAGEMENTS
2015-present Sydney Conservatorium of Music, lecturer in jazz, improvisation, composition, saxophone, Music Business Skills
2009-present Earshift Music label director
2018-present Earshift Music festival director
SELECTED AWARDS
2021 AMC/APRA ART MUSIC AWARDS finalist for Improvised/Jazz Performance of the Year, Vazesh, The Sacred Key
2021 ARIA Award nomination, Jazz Album of the Year, Vazesh, The Sacred Key2019 AMC/APRA ART MUSIC AWARDS finalist for Excellence in Jazz
2018 AIR award finalist for Best Jazz Release Within & Without
2017 ARIA Award nomination, Australian Music Prize shortlisting, finalist Bell Award, AIR Award for The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke
2017 Australian Jazz Bell Award - Best Produced Album – Iron in the Blood by Jeremy Rose & The Earshift Orchestra
2016 Curator for inaugural APRA Berlin Jazz Song Hub featuring US guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel
2015 APRA Professional Development Award for Jazz
2014 Finalist: NSW Creative Achievement Awards
2013 Finalist: Freedman Jazz Fellowship, performance at Sydney Opera House
2013 Finalist: APRA/MCA Art Music Award Excellence in Jazz: Recording, Performance and touring
2012 Finalist: Freedman Jazz Fellowship, performance at Sydney Opera House
2012 Finalist APRA/MCA Art Music Award Jazz Work of the Year: River Meeting Suite
2009 Bell Award for Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year
STUDIES
2016 PhD Composition, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney University, Prof Matthew Hindson, Dr Christopher Coady
2014 Ensemble Offspring Hatched Academy, Composition
2006 Exchange Program, Composition, Performance, Oslo University, Norway
2014-16 Australian Art Orchestra Creative Music Intensive
2013 Music Village, Greece – Balkan Music, Overtone Series
2011 Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music - Canada
2009 Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music - Canada
2009 BBM scholarship – London residency, composition and performance
2008 School for Improvisation – Brooklyn, New York City
2007 BMus (1st Class Honours), Jazz Performance, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
SELECTED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Australia Council of the Arts Career Development Grant: two-year mentorship with three industry experts and attend three European jazz network events
2017 Australia Council of the Arts: OMI International Arts Centre Residency, New York
2016 Australia Council of the Arts: New Work, PPCA Recording Initiative: To tour and record The Vampires fifth album Lionel Loueke, produced by Lloyd Swanton
2013 Australia Council of the Arts: New Work - Iron in the Blood: Music inspired by Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore
2012 Australia Council of the Arts: New Work The Strides New Work and Workshop Residency at Campbelltown Arts Centre. Artistic director of collaborative creative development of 12 new works. Conduct Hip-Hop, Songwriting and jazz improvisation workshops with High Schools, Juvenile Detention Centre and Claymore Community Centre
2012 Ian Potter Cultural Trust to attend Music Village Workshop (Greece) on Balkan Music and Applications of Overtone Series
2011 PPCA Trust Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music with The Vampires
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
Disruption! The Voice of Drums (2021) for Jeremy Rose & The Earshift Orchestra featuring Simon Barker and Chloe Kim, premiered at the Sydney Festival, 2021.
Aubade (2020), a suite of digital graphic scores for mixed ensemble, performed by the Earshift Orchestra
Liminality (2016) for chamber ensemble, performed by the Sydney Conservatorium Modern Music Ensemble
Border Control (2014) for piccolo/vibraphone, bass clarinet, trumpet and vibraphone, in three movements, performed by Ensemble Offspring
Rites for trumpet (2014) vibraphone and microtonal percussion, performed by Ensemble Offspring
In Wild Solitude (2013) saxophone quartet and choir (SATB) in three movements. Libretto from Watkin Tench’s 1788, Leichardt Expresso Chorus Choir
Between Worlds for saxophone and string quartet, three movements. Performed and recorded by Nick Russoniello with Acacia Quartet
River Meeting Suite (2011) for saxophone quartet, tabla, sitar, vocals and iphone, five movements
Released on Compass Quartet with Bobby Singh and Sarangan Sriranganathan CD: Ode to An AutoRickshaw (Earshift/MGM)
*Finalist in Art Music Awards – Jazz Work of the Year
Tango Suite (2019), for saxophone quartet, acoustic guitar and accordion, four movements
Released on Compass Quartet with Marcello Maio and Julian Curwin CD: Abrazo Tango (Tall Poppies)
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2021 Jeremy Rose & The Earshift Orchestra – Disruption! The Voice of Drums, featuring Simon Barker and Chloe Kim, presented by Sydney Festival
2021 Visions of Nar - SIMA International Women’s Jazz Festival, Sydney Opera House
2021 Earshift Music Festival – 10-day online series of performances and artist chats hosted by Jeremy Rose
2020 Vazesh live at Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House
2020 Visions of Nar live at Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith NSW
2020 Jeremy Rose & The Earshift Orchestra – Iron in the Blood, City Recital Hall, presented by Sydney Festival, Sydney Writers’ Festival
2019 Artist in residence, Four Winds Festival, Barraga Bay NSW.
2019 The Vampires – 9-show Germany, Austria, Czech Republic
2019 The Vampires – 18-show Australia Tour
2018 Jeremy Rose Within & Without Quartet featuring Kurt Rosenwinkel: Germany and Austria tour
2018 The Vampires 12-show Australian Tour
2017 Jeremy Rose Quartet: international shows including Cape Town, Vienna, Toronto
2017 The Vampires European Tour: Paris, Edinburgh, Berlin, London, Vienna
2016 The Vampires with Lionel Loueke Australia tour: Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Sydney International Jazz Festivals
2016 WOMADelaide Festival with The Strides
2015 The Vampires UK, Germany and Italy tour, Love Supreme Festival, Glasgow and Edinburgh Jazz Festivals
2014 Germany Tour, Jazzahead Festival with The Vampires
2014 featured saxophonist on The Voice TV Show
2012 Tour of Norway with Jeremy Rose’s Chiba, sideshow in Holland
2012 Solo Benefit concert in Peurto Plata, Dominican Republic
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2019 The Vampires – Pacifica (Earshift Music)
2017 Jeremy Rose – Within and Without feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel (Earshift Music)
2017 The Vampires – The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke (Earshift Music)
2016 Context: A Journal of Music Research (issue 41 2016) Glocal Dialects: the Indigenisation of Oz Rock in the Sydney Jazz Scene
2016 Jeremy Rose & the Earshift Art Orchestra Iron in the Blood, A Musical Adaptation of Robert Hughes’ The Fatal Shore (ABC JAZZ)
2015 Jeremy Rose Quartet – Sand Lines (Earshift/MGM)
2015 The Strides – The Youth The Rich & The Fake (Earshift Music/MGM)
2013 The Vampires – Tiro (Earshift Records/Fuse)
2013 Compass Quartet with Jackson Harrison – Oneirology (Earshift Music)
2012 The Vampires – Garfish (Earshift Records/Fuse)
2011 The Strides – Reclamation (Earshift Records/Fuse)
2011 Compass Quartet with Bobby Singh and Sarangan Sriranganathan – Ode to an Auto Rickshaw (Earshift Records/Fuse)
2009 The Vampires – Chellowdene (Earshift Records/Fuse)
2009 Jeremy Rose – Chiba (Earshift Records/Park Grammofon)
2009 Compass Quartet with Marcello Maio and Julian Curwin – Abrazo Tango (Tall Poppies)
2009 The Strides – The Strides (Earshift Records/Fuse)
2008 The Vampires – South Coasting (Jazzgroove)