Summer Music Festival - Colorado College

Stewart Rose, French Horn player, is a native of New York City. He is Principal Horn with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, has played Principal Horn with the Orchestra of St. Luke's since 1983 and with the New York City Opera Orchestra since 1989. He has also performed as Guest Principal Horn with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and as a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Ensemble Wein-Berlin and the Met Chamber Ensemble with James Levine. Other recent performances include appearances at the Marlboro, Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart, Spoleto, Edinburgh, Eastern Shore and Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festivals. He recently released to great critical acclaim, his first solo CD “From the Forest”, a collection of early Classical works for Horn and Orchestra by Haydn, Telemann, Leopold Mozart and Christoph Forster with St. Luke's, now available on iTunes.

Mr. Rose has made over 100 recordings of the chamber music and orchestral literature for BMG, Sony Classical, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI and Music Masters. He has also performed on many film soundtracks including “Beauty and the Beast” and “Cape Fear”. Recent releases include first horn on the New York Philharmonic's DG recording of “Harold in Italy” with Lorin Maazel, Paul Simon's recent releases “You're the One” and “Songs From the Capeman” and solo horn on Pat Metheny's soundtrack for “A Map of the World”. He has appeared on numerous “Live from Lincoln Center” broadcasts with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the New York City Opera, and is a frequent guest with the “CBS Late Show Orchestra”. This February he performed Benjamin Britten's “Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with Ian Bostridge and Orpheus at Carnegie Hall.

The New York Times critic John Rockwell has noted Stewart Rose for his “remarkable virtuosity, agility and fluency, and his ability to retain the horn's cheery rusticity.”

Buffalo Globe critic Herman Trotter said of “From the Forest”: “This is a recording to be treasured, not only by horn players but by average music lovers searching for new frontiers of musical excellence.”