Rudolf Rojahn
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Rudolf Rojahn is a Boston-based composer
of classical music.
Rojahn was awarded the Roger Sessions
Award for composition upon graduation from Boston Conservatory with a Master of Music in Composition in 2004. His music has been featured at The Boston Conservatory's New Music Week. He has been the Composer-in-Residence for the Ludovico Ensemble since 2005. Commissions include the Quincy Symphony Orchestra under Yoichi Udagawa and the Arbelos Piano Trio. His song cycle Lust based on the novel by Efriede Jelinek
was staged by Sanford Sylvan for The Boston Conservatory's Opera Department in 2007.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
of classical music.
Rojahn was awarded the Roger Sessions
Roger Sessions
Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...
Award for composition upon graduation from Boston Conservatory with a Master of Music in Composition in 2004. His music has been featured at The Boston Conservatory's New Music Week. He has been the Composer-in-Residence for the Ludovico Ensemble since 2005. Commissions include the Quincy Symphony Orchestra under Yoichi Udagawa and the Arbelos Piano Trio. His song cycle Lust based on the novel by Efriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."-...
was staged by Sanford Sylvan for The Boston Conservatory's Opera Department in 2007.
Selected List of Compositions
- Bone Palace Ballet (2003)
- Quadruple Concerto (2003)
- Thanksgiving (2004)
- String Trio (2005)
- Piano Trio (2005)
- Wintering the Queen (2005)
- Lust (2006)
- Heart of a Dog (2007) Guerilla OperaGuerilla OperaGuerilla Opera is an opera company in Boston, Massachusetts specializing in accessible contemporary chamber operas, several of which have been commissioned by the company. As of 2010 its Artistic Directors are Mike Williams and Rudolf Rojahn, its General Manager is Aliana de la Guardia and its...
- Eula (2008)
- Cratylus (2008)
- We Are Sons (2008) Guerilla OperaGuerilla OperaGuerilla Opera is an opera company in Boston, Massachusetts specializing in accessible contemporary chamber operas, several of which have been commissioned by the company. As of 2010 its Artistic Directors are Mike Williams and Rudolf Rojahn, its General Manager is Aliana de la Guardia and its...
- Antikythera Mechanism (2009)
Faculty Positions
- The Boston Conservatory, Theory and Ear Training
- The New England Conservatory, Division of Preparatory and Continuing Education, Theory and Ear Training Faculty