Kurt Rohde

Violist and composer Kurt Rohde is a recipient of the Rome
Prize, the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is the winner of the 2012
Lydian String Quartet Commission Prize. He has received commission awards from
New Music USA – Commissioning Music/USA, the NEA, and the Barlow, Fromm,
Hanson, and Koussevitzky Foundations. Mr. Rohde recently completed new works
for the Lydian String Quartet, eighth blackbird, the Scharoun Ensemble, pianist
Genevieve Lee, and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. He will be a Fellow at the
Radcliffe Institute for 2012-13. His CD, ONE:
chamber music of Kurt Rohde, was released by Innova Recordings in September
2012. Kurt is
currently working on a new opera with writer Dana Spiotta and artist David
Humphrey. He is a member of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and the New Century
Chamber Orchestra, and teaches composition at the University of California at
Davis.