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Scott Rosenberg (b. 1972) is a composer and multi-reed player who is creating a body of work which seeks to integrate the conceptual and structural elements of contemporary composition with the energy and immediacy of jazz, and the freedom, extended techniques and noise-based palette of open improvisation.
He has composed approximately 100 works for various instrumentation, including solo piano, string quartet, chamber quintet, and jazz quartet. Over twenty-five of his works to date are for large ensemble, big band, or orchestra. An active band leader, Rosenberg heads a number of different ensembles, including: The Chicago Creative Orchestra (a 25-piece large ensemble), The Exiles (a 13-piece big band), The Skronktet West (an improvising chamber quintet), and Red (a free jazz quartet). He has performed and had his compositions presented extensively in the United States and Western Europe at such renowned venues as The Chicago Jazz Festival, The Knitting Factory, The Empty Bottle, Yoshi's Nightspot, Jazz Em Agosto Festival (Lisbon), Radio One Austria, Treptower Park (Berlin), Instants Chavires (Paris), and The Monterey Pop and Rock Festival, and has played with the likes of Helen Thorington, Eugene Chadbourne, Glenn Spearman, Gino Robair, Pauline Oliveros, Anthony Braxton, Michael Zerang, Chris Brown, Bhob Rainey, Brenda Hutchinson, Jeb Bishop, Marco Eneidi, Maggi Payne, and many others. Rosenberg is featured both as a composer and instrumentalist on nearly 20 recordings, 7 of which are under his name as a group leader. He appears on such labels as New World Records, Music and Arts, Cadence Jazz Records, Spool, Rastascan, and others. After receiving his B.A. from Wesleyan University (1994), Rosenberg went on to complete a M.A. in composition at Mills College (1996). Rosenberg has received numerous awards for his work as a composer, including: the Jerome Foundation Grant (winter 1998/1999), the Illinois Arts Council Grant (spring, 2001), a Meet The Composer Grant (summer, 2002), and the American Music Center Copying Assistance Award (summer, 2002). In 1999, Rosenberg founded Barely Auditable Records, which is dedicated to releasing experimental and improvised music. He has lived and been active in the music communities in, New York, Paris, Chicago and The San Francisco Bay Area. discography $1000 a Second, w/ Shiurba, Gilbert, Sperry, Eisenstadt (Barely Auditable) Currently Available: Creative Orchestra, Chicago, 2001 (New World) El, The Skronktet West (Barely Auditable) Six Synaptics, w/ Kyle Bruckmann and Michael Zerang (Ertia Creations/Barely Auditable joint) Toad In The Hole, w/John Shiurba, Gino Robair, Matt Ingalls, and Morgan Guberman (Limited Sedition) Anthony Braxton: Six Compositions (GTM) 2001 (Rastascan/Limited Sedition/Barely Auditable joint) Kyle Bruckmann And...(Musica Genera) Owe: Scott Rosenberg's Red, w/ Daisy, Margasak, Hernandez (Cadence Jazz) Anthony Braxton/Scott Rosenberg: Compositions/Improvisations 2000 (Barely Auditable) Rattle OK, in duet with Jack Wright (Spring Garden Music) Anything Is Possible, Ron Anderson (Megaphone/Amanita-Etxeparia) V, solo (Umbrella Records) One Liners, 198 duets w/ Shiurba (Limited Sedition/Barely Auditable joint) IE, for large ensemble (Barely Auditable) Spotted Dick, w/ Morgan Guberman, Gino Robair, Shiurba (Limited Sedition) Meet Me On The Gastral Plane, solo (Limited Sedition) Bubble and Squeak, w/ Robair, Shiurba (Limited Sedition) are, original compositions (Super J) Spearman/Eneidi Creative Orchestra (Music and Arts) Trip Tease, Tipsy (Asphodel) |