Jon Rose

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Full Name	Jon Rose
Occupation	Australian Violinist
Date Of Birth	Feb 19, 1951(1951-02-19)
Age	73
Birthplace	Maidstone
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Aquarius

Jon Rose Biography

Jon Rose is one of the most popular and richest Australian Violinist who was born on February 19, 1951 in Maidstone, United Kingdom. Jonathan Anthony Rose (born 19 February 1951) is an Australian violinist, composer musician, and multi-media artist. Rose’s work is focused on the genre of experimental music, also called free improvisation which is where he has composed massive environmental multimedia pieces as well as constructed musical instruments that are experimental and composed the improvised violin concertos he has composed with an accompanying orchestra. Rose has been described in the words of Tony Mitchell as “undoubtedly the most exploratory, imaginative and iconoclastic violin player who has lived in Australia.”

In England, Jon Rose attended King’s School, Rochester, where Jon Rose sang in the cathedral choir and learned the violin through scholarship. He ceased formal violin lessons when he was 15. Rose played and studied in various music genres across Australia as well as his native United Kingdom during the 1970s as well as Italian club groups, country and western bebop, as well as new music.

Rose’s projects where the physical activities of sports are augmented by interactive sonic compositions include Squash (1983), Cricket (1985), badminton (Perks 1995 – 1998), netball (Team Music 2008, 2010, 2014), and Skateboard Music (2010).

Rose has produced a number of large-scale performances inspired by or set in outdoor environments. In Great Fences of Australia (1983), Rose bowed and recorded wire fences throughout the Australian continent. Typically, 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. In 2009, Rose was commissioned by Kronos Quartet and The Sydney Opera House to build a set of four fence instruments to be played in concert. Rose then composed Music from 4 Fences for a quartet of fence wire stretched on metal frames.

Rose’s work in free-improvisation in Australia in the mid-1970s was characterized by the usage of tunings for violins, and musical temperament, as well as electronic devices (both analog and digital interactive). Rose has played in solo or as part of an intimate group of improvisers comprising Jim Denley, Louis Burdett, Dave Ellis, Simone De Haan, Veryan Weston and Rik Rue.

Jon Rose Net Worth

Jon Rose is one of the richest Australian Violinist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jon Rose 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As an art form, free improvisation was invented through European as well as American musicians during the 1960s. Free improvisation is distinguished by its absence of rules, and is based upon a defiance of conventions in structure, such as the use of a predetermined musical form, a defined meter and constant tempo, well-defined tone or fixed chord changes. In a small group or by a soloist it is a way to explore expressive sounds. Though they are free to choose their musical interests and tastes however, free improvisers still create a unique musical vocabulary and can draw inspiration from. Free improvisation practitioners are guitar players Derek Bailey and Fred Frith and the saxophonists Evan Parker and John Zorn.

Rose’s work of improvisation has led to the creation of instruments that are custom-made. As a luthier Rose has constructed new instruments for string and altered standard ones, as and repurposed items that are used in everyday life. The first instruments he built during the 70s and 80s used water, wind and wheels to trigger or alter the sound of a variety of different types of strings, including violin gut strings and fence wire. The period of building instruments included more than 20 instruments referred to by the name of Relative Violins which are instruments that have been deconstructed like his triple-necked triple-piston double-piston violin and his 19-string Tenor Cello, constructed in 1981, and his Whipolin seven-string disembowelled violin with wheels that bow like a hurdy-gurdy. These fully functional, altered instruments have also been showcased as sculptures of the present, with some of which are displayed in the Rosenberg Museum, a travelling exhibition that showcases Rose’s collection of more than 800 violins as well as violin-related items.

In the 1980s, Rose performed a series of marathon improvised solos. The longest continuous solo (12 hours) was part of Sound Barriers at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery at the Alexander Mackie School of Art in Sydney in 1982, followed by a ten-hour concert at New Music America in Houston in 1986. In Europe, he performed marathon concerts of 3, 5, and 6 hours.

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Rose’s live performances have included multimedia content, including text, audio, video, and interactive components. In 1998, he began using an interactive bow to modulate the parameters of video (including speed, color, and revolutions) and of sound (pitch including pitch bend, volume, timbre, duration, panning, and silence). The interactive bow manipulated a variety of sounds, from bowing and plucking to a range of electronic sounds, and to preprogrammed samples that play when the bow and violin have certain interactions.

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Jon Ranked on the list of most popular Australian Violinist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Jon Rose celebrates birthday on February 19 of every year.

In 2006, 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. In 2007, Rose was awarded a one- year Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address residency by the Australia Council for the Arts.