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2005 Tuba Concerto Concert Taiwan

Masters Recital in Bangkok, March 2008

2009 Thailand Brass Festival

Thailand Brass & Percussion Conference at Mahidohl University 2009

2009 TubaMania
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Steve Rosse, Tuba

2010-11 Tour Schedule & Biography

(Steve Rosse with pianist Tomoko Sawano in Tokyo)

The American Steve Rosse enjoys an exotic international career as an orchestral tubist, tuba soloist, educator, and presenter of international festivals. Based in Sydney, Australia as Principal Tuba with the Sydney Symphony, Rosse also lectures at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney on an 50% basis, and also currently performs with groups as diverse as the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the National Australia Brass (Band), Rosse can be heard on several Hollywood movie & television soundtracks such as :the Star Wars "Clone Wars" series , Australia", "Jumper", "The Beach", and "Mao's Last Dancer"and also recorded music for the 2000 Olympics (Sydney) and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Canada. Rosse tours the world several times a year as soloist / master teacher, especially throughout Asia, and has hosted and directed brass and tuba festivals globally since 1995. He is currently the host and aoristic director of the bi-annual TubaMania International Festivals held in Bangkok Thailand , and is an Advising Committee Member of the Melbourne International Festival of Brass, held annually in Austrlia. Rosse is currently undergoing a substantial commissioning project of Australian and international solo repertoire for tuba and has been premiering these new works throughout the world and is preparing to record these worlks on CD including concertos and solos with piano and various brass ensemble combinations..

Rosse was appointed to Principal Tuba of the Sydney Symphony by international audition in 1990 where he now performs regularly in the famed Sydney Opera House. The Sydney Symphony tours internationally every year and recently recorded all the orchestral works of Prokofiev, Elgar, and Rachmaninoff (Exeton/ Octavia),, and will record all Mahler symphonies throughout 2010-11 with Vladimir Ashkenazy..

Prior to 1990 Rosse studied with Daniel Pernatoni, Brent Dutton, Roger Bobo, and Arnold Jacobs. He held Principal/ Solo Tuba positions with the RAI Tornio Radio Symphony (Italy) and the World Orchestra of Jennesses Musicales in Europe, and with the New Mexico Symphony in Albuquerque, USA. Aside from his current performing, recording, and touring with the Sydney Symphony, Steve also currently performs with other orchestras around the globe ,most notably in Asia and with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia and on tour. Rosse has also served as Guest Principal Tuba with the symphony orchestras of Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, San Diego, and the Academy of St Martin-in-the Field, etc....

As a soloist Rosse has performed concertos with professional orchestras on four continents including with most major Australian orchestras (five solo appearances with the Sydney Symphony),, recent concerto performances include the John Williams Tuba Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan in a program entitled "The Tuba Kings of the World", and a performance of Philip Sparke's Tuba Concerto at the 2007 Midwest Band Clinic in Chicago with the NSW State Schools Symphonic Wind Ensemble (SSSWE). Rosse is in the midst of commissioning several innovative new solo works for solo tuba by Australian composers, including resent premiers of Barry McKimm's Tuba Sonata, and Leif Sundstrup's Azira Phale for solo tuba and brass ensemble. Rosse has won prizes at many international solo competitions, including San Diego Musical Merit, Australia's ABC Young (Instrumental) Performer of the Year, and in Markneukirchen, Germany. He has since served on jury panels of many international competitions throughout the world.

Rosse is currently Lecturer of Tuba and Brass Studies at the University of Sydney's Sydney Conservatorium of Music on a 50% capacity where he teaches tuba and brass ensembles studies. As a master teacher he has taught at the Dolce International Academy in Japan and,, most universities in Thailand, the National University of Singapore , the Milan Conservatory of Music in Italy, and has coached the tuba and low brass students at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia & DePaul in Chicago. Rosse's students have been very successful and have performed with orchestras across the planet ranging from the Tasmanian Symphony to the Berlin and London Philharmonic Orchestras, and many now occupy full-time major performing orchestra and band positions throughout Europe, Australia, and Asia. Many have also won First Prizes at prestigious international competitions in the USA and Europe.

As an educator Rosse is especially dedicated to the development of young professional / student tuba players throughout Australia and Asia, and spends most of his travel time in Asia. Since 1995 Rosse has hosted/ directed several TubaMania International Conferences, Camps and Festivals throughout Australia and the world, including the TubaMania International Festivals in Bangkok 2008 and 2009.

Rosse 2010-11 Touring Schedule (otherwise in Sydney or somewhere else on holiday taking a rest!):
Feb 2-7: Singapore: masterclasses inc: Recial/ Masterclass 2pm Feb 5th at
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music : National University of Singapore
March 1-6 Taiwan (Tainan) Masterclasses . Inc March 6th Solo Concert wt Piano and Brass Ensembles
April 8-13: Philadelphia Orchetra Rite of Spring in PHL and NYC Carnegie Hall
April 14th Chicago: Shared recital (Concerto wt DePaul U Brass Ensemble) and DePaul U tuba studio
April / May: Philadelphia Asia Tour, inc Solo Recitals and Masterclasses Asia Tour
April 21 Mini Recial and Masterclass Tokyo College of Music (Tokyo Ongaku Daigaku)
April 28 Solo & Ensembles Concert Sengawa Theater, TOKYO
July at the IHS in Brisbane,
Aug: Eurpoean Solo / Masterclass Tour/ European Sydney Symphony Tour
Sept 6-10 in Porto Potrugal wt Sergio Carolino, Masterclasses and Duo Solo Concerts & Recordings wt Sergio
Sept: Melbourne Internaitonal Festival of Brass
Nov 1 Solo Recital at Sydney Conservatorium Coctail Concert featuring new Australian works for Tuba inc Ensembles
Dec Solo and Ensemble Recital in Taipei Taiwan wt Brass from teh Taipei Symphonic Band
2011:
Feb or March *2011* at TubaMania Internatinal Festival Bangkok Thailand
Early 2011 Mini Recital/ Masterclass at DAC Tokyo
Spring 2011 Solo & Ensembles Conceret inc COncerto wt Band in Miyazaki, Japan
Fall 2011 USA Solo /Masterclass Tour
Fall 2011 Sydney Symphony/ MC Tour of Japan / Korea

The American Steve Rosse enjoys an exotic international career as an orchestral tubist, tuba soloist, educator, and presenter of international festivals. Based in Sydney, Australia as Pricncipal Tuba with the Sydney Symphony, Rosse also lectures at the Sydney Conservatorium of Muisc, Univeristy of Sydney on an 50% basis, and also currenlty performs with groups as diverse as the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the National Australia Brass (Band), Rosse can be heard on several Hollywood movie & television soundtracks such as :"Mao's Last Dancer" , Australia", the Star Wars "Clone Wars" series, "Jumper", ,and "The Beach", and also recorded music for the 2000 Olympics (Sydney) and the 2010 Winter Olymic Games to be held in Vancouver, Canada. Rosse tours the world several times a year as soloist / master teacher, especially throughout Asia, and has hosted and directed brass and tuba fesitvals golabally since 1995. He is currently the host and arsitic director of the annual TubaMania International Festivals held in Bangkok Thailand every year. Rosse is currently undergoing a substantial commissioning project of Australian and international solo reperotire for tuba and has been premiering these new works throuhghout the world and is preparing to record these worls on CD including concertos and solos with piano and various brass ensembel combinations..

Rosse was appointed to Principal Tuba of the Sydney Symphony by international audition in 1990 where he now performs regularily in the famed Sydney Opera House. The Sydney Symphony tours internationally every year and recently recorded all the orchestral works of Prokofiev, Elgar, and Rachmaninoff (Exeton/ Octavia),, and will record all Mahler symphonies trroughout 2010-11 with Vladimir Ashkenazy..

Prior to 1990 Rosse studied with Daniel Pernatnoi, Brent Dutton, Roger Bobo, and Arnold Jacobs. He held Principal/ Solo Tuba positions with the RAI Tornio Radio Symphony (Italy) and the World Orchestra of Jennesses Musicales in Europe, and with the New Mexico Symphony in Albuquerque, USA. Aside form his current performing, recording, and touring with the Sydney Symphony, Steve also currently performs with other orhestras around the globe,,most notably in Asia and with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia and on tour. Rosse has also served as Guest Principal Tuba with the symphony orchestras of Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, San Diego, and the Academy of St Martin-in-the Field, etc....

As a soloist Rosse has performed concertos with professional orchestras on four continents including with most major Austrlian orchestras (five solo appearances with the Sydney Symphony),, recent concerto performances include the John Williams Tuba Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan in a program entitled "The Tuba Kings of the World", and a performance of Philip Sparke's Tuba Concerto at the 2007 Midwest Band Clinic in Chicago with the NSW State Schools Symphonic Wind Ensemble (SSSWE). Rosse is in the midst of commissioning several innovative new solo works for solo tuba by Australian composers, including resemt premiers of Barry McKimm's Tuba Sonata, and Leif Sundstrup's Azira Phale for solo tuba and brass ensemble. Rosse has won prizes at many international solo competitions, including San Diego Musical Merit, Australia's ABC Young (Instrumental) Performer of the Year, and in Markneukirchen, Germany. He has since served on jury panels of many international competitions throughout the world.

Rosse is currently Lecturer of Tuba and Brass Studies at the University of Sydney's Sydney Conservatorium of Music on a 70% capacity where hse is also Brass Chamber Music Coordinator and Director of Brass Ensembles. As a master teacher he has taught at the Dolce International Academy in Japan and,, most univerisiteis in Thailand, the National University of Singapore , the Milan Conservatory of Music in Italy, and has coached the tuba and low brass students at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. Rosse's students have been very successful and have performed with orchestras across the planet ranging from the Tasmanian Symphony to the Berlin and London Philharmonic Orchestras, and many now occupy full-time major performing orchestra and band positions throughout Europe, Australia, and Asia. Many have also won First Prizes at prestigious international competitions in the USA and Europe.

Steve (born November 1964) studied with Brent Dutton in his home town of San Diego, California as a high school student, followed by four years of study with Daniel Perantoni at Arizona State University (1983-87). His other primary teachers include Arnold Jacobs and Roger Bobo in the USA, and Mel Culbertson, Michael Lind and Robert Tucci in Europe. He plays tubas in F, C and BBb by Melton,, Rudolf Meinl,, and Walter Nirchl,

Rosse 2010-11 Touring Schedule (otherwise in Sydney or somewhere else on holiday taking a rest!):
Feb 2-7: Singapore: masterclasses inc: Recial/ Masterclass 2pm Feb 5th at
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music : National University of Singapore
March 1-6 Taiwan (Tainan) Masterclasses . Inc March 6th Solo Concert wt Piano and Brass Ensembles
April 8-13: Philadelphia Orchetra Rite of Spring in PHL and NYC Carnegie Hall
April 14th Chicago: Shared recital (Concerto wt DePaul U Brass Ensemble) and DePaul U tuba studio
April / May: Philadelphia Asia Tour, inc Solo Recitals and Masterclasses Asia Tour
April 21 Mini Recial and Masterclass Tokyo College of Music (Tokyo Ongaku Daigaku)
April 28 Solo & Ensembles Concert Sengawa Theater, TOKYO
July at the IHS in Brisbane,
Aug: Eurpoean Solo / Masterclass Tour/ European Sydney Symphony Tour
Sept 6-10 in Porto Potrugal wt Sergio Carolino, Masterclasses and Duo Solo Concerts & Recordings wt Sergio
Sept: Melbourne Internaitonal Festival of Brass
Nov 1 Solo Recital at Sydney Conservatorium Coctail Concert featuring new Australian works for Tuba inc Ensembles
Dec Solo and Ensemble Recital in Taipei Taiwan wt Brass from teh Taipei Symphonic Band
Feb or March *2011* at TubaMania Internatinal Festival Bangkok Thailand
Early 2011 Mini Recital/ Masterclass at DAC Tokyo
Spring 2011 Solo & Ensembles Conceret inc COncerto wt Band in Miyazaki, Japan
Fall 2011 USA Solo /Masterclass Tour
Fall 2011 Sydney Symphony/ MC Tour of Japan / Korea