Gregory Rose

1. This will be the  seventeenth year that Gregory has directed the Gloucestershire Choral Weekend.  He has conducted choirs, orchestras and ensembles throughout Europe and the Far East and is Music Director of the Jupiter Orchestra, Jupiter Singers, and the amplified vocal quartet Singcircle.
   

He has conducted many oratorios including the Baltic premiere of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, Bach’s complete Christmas Oratorio, Rachmaninov’s The Bells, Verdi’s Requiem, Ein Deutsches Requiem by Brahms and several performances of Bach’s Mass in B Minor and Mozart’s Requiem.
He has conducted many a cappella programmes, including all-Russian works for the Netherlands Radio Choir and the BBC Singers with whom he has also conducted a programme of music by Sibelius and Toivo Kuula.  Other choirs include the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, the Nederland Kamerkoor, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Choir, the Groupe Vocal de France and the Singapore Philharmonic Chorus.
Gregory has conducted operas by composers ranging from Bizet to Stravinsky and Toshio Hosokawa.  He is a prolific composer of orchestral, ensemble and choral works and his Missa Sancta Pauli Apostoli won an award at the British Composer Awards 2006. He has conducted and arranged for Diana Ross and Linda Ronstadt and is a staff conductor at Trinity Laban.

Gregory has recorded music by his late Father, Bernard Rose, and has released 3 CDs of his own compositions, all on the Toccata Classics label.
You can find out more about Gregory on his website.

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