Nick Roth (composer)

Roth's work explores the liberation of improvisation from composition, the poetic syntax of philosophical enquiry, and the function of music as translative epistemology (MaTE).{{Cite web|url=https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/benjamin-dwyer-different-voices-irish-music-and-music-in-ireland/|title=Benjamin Dwyer, Different Voices: Irish Music and Music in Ireland|website=Wolke-verlag.de|access-date=8 August 2020}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nickrothmusic.com/nrm/images/ColonyLiteraryMagazine.pdf|title=There is No Such Thing as Genre, Colony Literary Magazine, November 2014|website=Nickrothmusic.com|access-date=8 August 2020}}

He has developed projects in collaboration with scientists Thomas E. Lovejoy, Margaret D. Lowman, Iain Couzin and Henry S. Horn and his work has been commissioned and performed by the European Saxophone Ensemble, T. S. Eliot Foundation, RTÉ ConTempo Quartet, Happy Days International Beckett Festival, Trio InVento, The Ark Cultural Centre for Children, Dublin Dance Festival, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Yurodny Ensemble, Emma Martin Dance, National Concert Hall Dublin, Temenos and Rough Magic Theatre Company, with performances at international festivals including the Irish representation at the ISCM World Music Days 2016 in Tongyeong, South Korea.{{Cite web|url=https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/the-wizards-of-new-music/|title=The Wizards of New Music: Reflections on the 2016 ISCM World Music Days|date=20 May 2016|website=NewMusicusa.org|access-date=8 August 2020}}

As a performer, his collaborations include work with Jennifer Walshe,{{Cite web|url=http://www.aisteach.org/|website=Aisteach.org|title=Preserving the history of Ireland's Avant-Garde|access-date=8 August 2020}}Experimental Music Since 1970, Jennie Gottschalk, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, August 2016 Savina Yannatou,{{Cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/the-blue-of-the-night-with-carl-corcoran/programmes/2014/0715/631039-the-blue-of-the-night-with-carl-corcoran-tuesday-15-july-2014/|title=The Blue of the Night with Carl Corcoran Tuesday 15 July 2014|website=The Blue of the Night|access-date=8 August 2020}} John Taylor, Iarla Ó Lionáird,{{Cite web|url=https://www.goldenplec.com/album-reviews/cork-gamelan-ensemble-the-three-forges/|title=Cork Gamelan Ensemble - The Three Forges | Album Review|website=GoldenPlec.com|access-date=8 August 2020}} M.C. Schmidt,{{Cite web|url=https://journalofmusic.com/criticism/diatribe-live-mc-schmidt-jennifer-walshe-nick-roth|title=Diatribe Live: M.C. Schmidt/Jennifer Walshe/Nick Roth|website=The Journal of Music|access-date=8 August 2020}} Gavin Bryars, Bobby McFerrin,{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/what-s-on-thursday-michael-feinstein-the-flowers-of-hell-and-francesco-turrisi-1.2355401|title=What's on Thursday: Michael Feinstein, The Flowers of Hell and Francesco Turrisi|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=8 August 2020}} Tom Arthurs, Lucas Niggli, Kate Ellis, Mihály Borbély, Matthew Jacobson,{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/11/redivider-meets-i-monk-review|title=ReDiviDer: ReDiviDer Meets I Dig Monk, Tuned – review|date=11 October 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=8 August 2020}} Miklós Lukács, Francesco Turrisi, Cora Venus Lunny, Crash Ensemble, Alex Bonney, Petar Ralchev, Zohar Fresco, Alkinoos Ioannidis, Theodosii Spassov, and world premières of new works by composers Mamoru Fujieda, Alla Zagaykevych, Dan Trueman, Ian Wilson, Benjamin Dwyer, Panos Ghikas, Kamran Ince, Roger Doyle, Dan Trueman, Judith Ring, Mel Mercier, Linda Buckley, Ed Bennett, Onur Türkmen,{{Cite web|url=https://janeharrison.me/2016/04/28/on-the-premiere-of-onur-turkmens-sailing-to-byzantium/|title=On the Premiere of Onur Türkmen's Sailing to Byzantium|website=Janeharrison.me|date=28 April 2016|access-date=8 August 2020}} Christian Mason, Francis Heery, Piaras Hoban and Elaine Agnew.

As an educator, he has lectured and given workshops at the California Academy of Sciences, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), University College Cork (UCC), Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), University College Dublin (UCD), Institute for Biodiversity, Science and Sustainability, San Francisco (IBSS), Cork School of Music (CSM), University of Limerick (UL), University of Aalborg, Copenhagen, National University of Ireland (NUI), Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) and the Norwegian Center for Technology in Music and the Arts (NOTAM).

He is the artistic director of the Yurodny Ensemble,{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/yurodny-haivka-hi-tech-avant-garde-balkan-folk-grooves-1.2601832|title=Yurodny - Haivka: hi-tech, avant-garde Balkan folk grooves|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=8 August 2020}}{{Cite web|url=http://104.217.253.193/err.asp|title=Roth Music | Error Page|website=104.217.253.193|access-date=8 August 2020}} a founding member of The Water Project, and a partner at Diatribe Records.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/diatribe-records-heart-and-soul-of-the-music-by-ian-patterson.php|title=Diatribe Records: Heart and Soul of the Music article @ All About Jazz|website=All About Jazz|date=16 January 2013 |access-date=8 August 2020}}

In 2015 he was composer-in-residence at the California Academy of Sciences and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and in 2017 was artist-in-residence at the European Space Agency (ESTEC).

Roth was born into a musical family in London;{{Cite web|url=http://www.nickrothmusic.com/nrm/images/Jazzwise2014.pdf|title=Tomorrow is the Question: Who to look out for in 2014, Jazzwise Magazine UK, November 2013|website=Nickrothmusic.com|access-date=8 August 2020}} brothers Alex Roth and Simon Roth are also musicians, and mother Joy Mendelsohn is a music teacher (whose past students included Alastair King, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley). He is married to Ukrainian vocalist Olesya Zdorovetska and since 2001 has been based in Dublin, Ireland.

He studied saxophone in London with Gilad Atzmon and composition in Dublin under Ronan Guilfoyle and Elaine Agnew, undertaking further studies of improvisation in New York City under Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, and Vijay Iyer, of pedagogy in Kecskemét at the Zoltán Kodály Institute under Katalin Kiss, and of Makam theory and composition in Crete under Sokratis Sinopoulos and Ross Daly.

• Woodland Heights (2014) for string orchestra [http://journalofmusic.com/focus/wood-trees The Wood from the Trees, The Journal of Music, May 2014]. Journalofmusic.com[http://groovekorea.com/article/tales-from-the-woodland/ Tales from the Woodland, Groove Korea, May 2016] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160902010215/http://groovekorea.com/article/tales-from-the-woodland/ |date=2 September 2016 }}. Groovekorea.com
• Flocking III (2013) for saxophone orchestra
• Stille Nacht (2012) for jazz orchestra
• Flocking I–II (2012) for string orchestra

• Seed I–II (2016) for percussion and tape
• Peregrinus (2016) for cathedral bells and electronics
• Little Woodland Heights (2015) for children's ensemble {{Cite web|url=https://www.youth.ie/articles/the-role-of-the-arts-in-environmental-education/|title=The role of the Arts in Environmental Education|website=Youth.ie|access-date=8 August 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cmc.ie/news/201015/new-music-digest-19-25-october|title=New Music Digest: 19–25 October|website=Cmc.ie|date=20 October 2015|access-date=8 August 2020}}
• A Way A Lone A Last (2015) for recorder trio
• Temenos (2015) for bass clarinet and tenor recorder
• LakeCycle (2013) for piano and percussion
• StopStart (2012) for variable ensemble
• Water Project I–II (2011) for open ensemble and water
• Quintet (2010) for bass clarinet and string quartet {{Cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-344825987/contemporary-quintets-anchored-by-roe-s-clarinet|title="Contemporary Quintets Anchored by Roe's Clarinet" by Sion, Pwyll ap - Gramophone, Vol. 91, July 2013|website=|access-date=|archive-date=9 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109185332/https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-344825987/contemporary-quintets-anchored-by-roe-s-clarinet|url-status=dead}}
• Maoz Tsur (2010) for choir SSAA
• Jamilia (2009) for piano
• Griffmadár (2009) for large ensemble
• I am the Sea (2009) for voice and piano
• pliARS (2009) for large ensemble
• Evenset (2008) for large ensemble
• Parah (2008) for clarinet quartet
• Innehølder (2006) for large ensemble

• The Waste Land (2015) for four voices, jazz quintet and film {{Cite web|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/ts-eliots-the-waste-land-with-nick-roth-quintet-at-happy-days-enniskillen-international-beckett-festival-2015-by-ian-patterson.php|title=T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land With Nick Roth Quintet at Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival 2015 article @ All About Jazz|website=All About Jazz|date=21 August 2015 |access-date=8 August 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.eliotsociety.org.uk/tseliot-events/|title=Events » T S Eliot Society|website=Eliotsociety.org.uk|access-date=8 August 2020}}
• CAOS (2015) for dancer and improvising ensemble
• Tundra (2014) for ensemble and tape {{Cite news|url=http://www.modul-dance.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Emma-Martin_Tundra_Reviews.pdf|author=Emma Martin|title=Tundra Review|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=1 May 2014|access-date=8 August 2020}}
• Vartn af Godot (2014) for ensemble
• Peer Gynt (2013) for ensemble
• Don Giovanni (2011) for voices, ensemble and electronics

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• {{Official website|http://www.nickrothmusic.com/}}
• [https://www.cmc.ie/composers/nick-roth/ Contemporary Music Centre Portal]
• {{YouTube | id=lZP2tnAFvD8 | title=Woodland Heights}}
• {{YouTube | id=bjKG4M1ED5o | title=Flocking III}}

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