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Bolton, Rose (b. February 17, 1971, Toronto, Ontario). Canadian composer of mostly chamber works that have been performed in Canada and elsewhere; she is also active as a violinist.
Ms. Bolton studied composition with Jack Behrens and Peter Paul Koprowski at the University of Western Ontario from 1990-94, where she earned her BMus, and had private studies in composition with Alexina Louie in Toronto in 1995-96. She then studied composition with Denys Bouliane and John Rea at McGill University in Montréal from 1996-98 and there earned her MMus. She also twice attended Domaine Forget in 1999-2000 and once attended the International Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn in 2000 and Royaumont in 2001.
Her honors include the H.C. Aitken Prize in the young composers competition of New Music Concerts in Toronto (1995, for Ostinato), two prizes in the SOCAN Awards for Young Composers (1999, for Incidental Music of My Mind and Jade Flower Palace), participation in the Generation 2000 Project of the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal (2000), and the Toronto Emerging Composer Award (2002, a grant to write Elements). Most recently, she was a finalist in the competition of the League of Composers/ISCM (2002, for Vision of Time) and received a Canada Council for the Arts Grant for Specialized Sound Recording (2003, used to make a recording of Elements). She has received commissions from Arraymusic, the ensemble The Burdocks, CBC, the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, Continuum, Ensemble Rosa, the Ergo Ensemble, the Esprit Orchestra, accordionist Joseph Petric, and the Sound Symposium, among other ensembles and organizations.
As a violinist, she regularly performs traditional music and American-influenced country and bluegrass and was a member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble in Toronto from 1999-2002. She co-founded with soprano Janice Jackson and double bassist Lukas Pearse the trio Inner Workings in Toronto in 2004 and has since performed with it.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: rbolton@interlog.com
Telephone: 416 778 8696
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Incidental Music of My Mind, small orchestra (16 players), 1998; Under Unturned Rocks, small orchestra, 2003-04
CHAMBER MUSIC: Ostinato, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, French horn, viola, double bass, 2 percussion, 1994-95; Untitled work I-II, viola, 1995 (also version of Untitled work I for amplified viola [with digital processing], 1996); Plum Season, clarinet, trumpet, violin, double bass, 1996; Sweaters of Nettles, flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, French horn, piano, percussion, 1996-97; The Chalet in the Ke-Waid-Dun-Dot Valley, amplified viola (with digital processing), tape, 1996-97; Sonata for Solo Accordion, 1997; Elise, violin, live electronics, computer, 1998 (also version as Elise II, violin [with digital processing], synthesizers/electronic improvisers, 1999); Killbear Music, clarinet, viola, cello, percussion, 1998; DGAECD, amplified violin, any number of improvisational players, 1999; ANSWER! (question was irrelevant), any number of nonstandard musical instruments, synthesizers, 1999; (...question was ignored...), clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 1999; Note, Rest, Repeat, amplified violin, any 5 improvisational players, 1999; What Company!?, flute, clarinet, 2 saxophones, 2 French horns, trumpet, 2 trombones, tuba, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, percussion, 1999
CHAMBER MUSIC: Orion's Quilt, flute, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, trombone, violin, cello, double bass, piano, 2000; River to the Sea, clarinet, guitar, violin, double bass, 2000, revised 2002; Vision of Time, trumpet, piano, 2 percussion, 2000-01; Suspension, any 2 treble instruments (both + amplified objects), piano, 2001; Mineral, violin, invented amplified string instrument, synthesizers, 2001; Star Lake, violin, piano, 2001; Hidden Forest, harp, 2001; Seriosity, accordion, 2002-03; Pine Needles, marimba, 2003; Floating Bog, clarinet, harp, cimbalom, violin, cello, piano, 2003; Tamarack's 25th Anniversary (Composition in Three Movements), 3 folk players, 2003; Breakdown of System (and malfunction in 5 different ways), baritone saxophone, violin, piano, percussion, 2004
VOCAL: Jade Flower Palace (text by Kenneth Rexroth), soprano, oboe, bass clarinet, guitar, violin, double bass, 2 percussion, 1997; Urban Haiku (text by Don Bolton), soprano, piano, 2003; Small Breeze through Long Grass, soprano, violin, 2003-04; This is This, soprano, improvisational electronic ensemble, 2004; The Poor Simple Pidgeons Consented (text by Aesop [English translation]), soprano-speaker, violin, double bass, 2004
MULTIMEDIA: Elements, soprano-speaker, piano, any 4 players (with amplified objects, nonstandard musical instruments), live electronics, 2002
DISCOGRAPHY
Elements. Romina Di Gasbarro, soprano-speaker; Christopher Foley, piano; Rose Bolton, Michael Dobinson, John Mark Sherlock, Paul Stilwell, amplified objects, nonstandard musical instruments, live electronics (private, 2004)
Seriosity. Joseph Petric, accordion (Victo, 2004)
Urban Haiku. Janice Jackson, soprano; Simon Docking, piano (private, 2004)
(Last updated on January 17, 2005)
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