Carl Rosman studied clarinet with Phillip MIECHEL in Melbourne between 1989 and 1993, and has recently completed studies with Peter JENKIN towards a Masters degree from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, with the support of a University of Sydney Postgraduate Award. He performs with ELISION Ensemble as a clarinettist and conductor.
Carl has performed widely as a soloist, with appearances in Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Italy, England, the USA, Japan and South Korea, as well as throughout Australia. He has performed at the Huddersfield, Sydney Spring, Melbourne, Perth and Akiyoshidai Festivals, as well as at the 1997 ISCM World Music Days and the 1994 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, where he became the first Australian recipient of a Kranichsteiner Musikpreis. In July 1999 h participated in the third académie de musique du XXe siècle presented by Ensemble InterContemporain in Paris under Pierre BOULEZ and David ROBERTSON, as well as performing the complete solo clarinet works of Michael FINNISSY in recital in London.
He is a co-artistic director and founding member of Libra Ensemble, and a board member of ELISION Ensemble. He has also performed with Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), the Melbourne Symphony, the Gavin Bryars Ensemble, ChamberMade Opera, Perihelion and many other groups, and has been an artist in residence at the Akiyoshidai Festival, the Australian National Academy of Music and The University of Queensland.
Carl has conducted ELISION Ensemble, Libra Ensemble, Sydney Alpha, the Spring Ensemble, the Academy of Melbourne, KleZeyn Theatre, Nachtmusique, and ensembles of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne and the Australian National Academy of Music, in works by a wide variety of composers including Brian FERNEYHOUGH, Igor STRAVINSKY, Pierre BOULEZ (Le Marteau sans maître), Nigel WESTLAKE, Richard MEALE, George BENJAMIN, James DILLON, Morton FELDMAN, Michael SMETANIN, Helmut LACHENMANN, Chris DENCH, Liza LIM, Adam YEE, Elliott GYGER, Elena KATS-CHERNIN and Andrew FORD. His first appearance as conductor with ELISION Ensemble was in the July 1998 Brisbane concert Strange Customs, and the CD recording of music by Liza LIM recently released on ABC Classics, The Heart's Ear. He has recently conducted ELISION in performances of John RODGERS' Inferno at the Adelaide Festival, and two concerts in Sydney Alpha's 2000 season.
Carl has enjoyed direct working relationships with a wide range of Australian and international composers including Brian FERNEYHOUGH (whose Time and Motion Study I he has performed on four continents and recorded for Brian Ferneyhough Solo Works, ELISION release), Michael FINNISSY, Chris DENCH, Gavin BRYARS, James DILLON, Michael WHITICKER, Louis ANDRIESSEN, Liza LIM, Adam YEE, Benjamin MARKS, Richard BARRETT and many others. Works composed for him include Chris DENCH's ruins within for solo clarinet in A, Liza LIM's INGUZ (fertility) for clarinet in A and cello, Richard BARRETT's interference, for contrabass clarinet and a forthcoming work by Brian FERNEYHOUGH (for bass clarinet and ensemble). He also works as a writer on music, contributing programme notes for ABC Classics (including releases of works by Liza LIM and Carl VINE), Universal Music, Musica Viva and the ABC orchestras through Symphony Australia. He has had articles on works by Liza LIM and Chris DENCH published by Musik und Ästhetik, and has also written for the Sydney Morning Herald, Sounds Australian, Soundscapes, and International Record Review.
January 2001