Jon Rose is as much at home creating large environmental multi-media works, performing improvised music, inventing musical instruments (such as the interactive MIDI bow), creating radiophonic works, writing cultural criticism, as he is playing the violin on a concert stage.
Rose’s primary life’s work is The Relative Violins, which includes innovation in the fields of new instrument design, environmental performance, new instrumental techniques, radiophonic works, and the development of inter-active electronics. He also curates his own violin museum of 1,000+ artefacts: The Rosenberg Museum.
In 2012, Rose was honoured with The Music Board of The Australia Council’s senior prize – the Don Banks Award for lifetime achievement and contribution to Australian music. His book about the state of music today, “Music of Place: Reclaiming a Practice”, was published by Currency House Press (2013).
Rose has appeared on over 90 records and CD’s and is featured regularly in the main festivals of New Music, Jazz, Performance and Sound Art such as Ars Elektronica, Festival D’Automne, Maerzmusik, Dokumenta, North Sea Jazz Fest, New Music America, the Vienna Festival, the Berlin Jazz Festival, Moers Festival, The Melbourne Festival, and The Sydney Festival.
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