1. Jonathan Anthony Rose was born on 19 February 1951 and is an Australian violinist, cellist, composer, and multimedia artist.
25 Facts About Jon Rose
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Jon Rose has been described by Tony Mitchell as "undoubtedly the most exploratory, imaginative and iconoclastic violin player who has lived in Australia".
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Jon Rose discontinued formal violin lessons at the age of 15.
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Jon Rose has performed as a soloist or as a member of a small group of fellow improvisers, including Jim Denley, Louis Burdett, Dave Ellis, Simone De Haan, Veryan Weston and Rik Rue.
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Jon Rose has worked as a composer with various ensembles and organizations including Ensemble Offspring, Tura New Music, Decibel, Speak Percussion, Soundstream, the NOW now Festival, and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
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The project had performances in Europe, Canada, China, and Australia, and Jon Rose co-authored a book of the same title.
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Jon Rose's Internal Combustion is a concerto for amplified orchestra, solo improvised violin, and video.
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The Auctioneer Says is orchestrated for cello, viola, alto saxophone, electric bass, percussion, and video, with Jon Rose playing an auctioneer.
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Jon Rose transcribed the piece for piano as the musical contours of a pair of 1915 suicide letters read in Urdu.
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Jon Rose has used the medium of live radio broadcasts to present original content influenced by historical musical figures and topics.
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Jon Rose has produced a number of large-scale performances inspired by or set in outdoor environments.
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In Great Fences of Australia, Jon Rose bowed and recorded wire fences throughout the Australian continent.
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Typically, Jon Rose uses both the hair and stick of cello and bass bows to sound wire fences, which he supplements with small contact microphones attached at the meeting point of fence wire and fence post.
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In 2009, Jon Rose was commissioned by Kronos Quartet and The Sydney Opera House to build a set of four fence instruments to be played in concert.
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Jon Rose then composed Music from 4 Fences for a quartet of fence wire stretched on metal frames.
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Jon Rose has performed on the violin accompanied by his videos of outback fences, both those he has bowed and others he only filmed.
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Jon Rose expanded Great Fences of Australia to other locations including Bosnia, Belfast, the Golan Heights, Mexico, the United States, and Finland.
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In November 2006, Jon Rose was detained and later released by Israeli Defence Forces while playing a part of the separation fence in Bil'in, a Palestinian village located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, 12 kilometres west of the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
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In 2006, John Oswald invited Jon Rose to improvise a solo part for the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
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Jon Rose curated and performed at his own festival, String 'Em Up, which focused on stringed instruments and which travelled to Berlin, Rotterdam, New York City, and Paris.
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From 1985, Jon Rose worked in conjunction with engineers at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music in Amsterdam to develop a series of interactive MIDI bows under the title Hyperstring Project.
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Jon Rose uses various controllers in his MIDI bows, mounted on both his wrist and on the bows themselves.
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In 2006, Jon Rose was awarded the David Tudor Composer-in-Residence at Mills College and completed a lecture and concert tour of various University of California system campuses that same year.
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In 2007, Jon Rose was awarded a one-year Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address residency by the Australia Council for the Arts.
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Jon Rose has authored works which have been published as the following:.