Nicholas McRoberts
Nicholas Owen McRoberts (born 16 January 1977) is an Australian composer and conductor[1][2][3] of classical music. He studied music in Australia,[4] before moving to Paris, France where he lives today.
In 2018 he was named Artistic Director of Opéra Montmartre in Paris[5].
His operas include Lyon (2016) premiered by the Ruse State Opera[6] in July 2016,[7][8] and Nera (2017) adapted from the play Devojka Modre Kose[9] (The Girl with the Midnight Blue Hair) written by the Serbian playwright Vida Ognjenović.
His ballet "Les Tisseuses de Silence"[10] created for the Nawel Oulad Compagnie[11] was performed in Paris in 2017 in the Festival Les Aliennes[12] and the Festival Appel de la Lune.[13]
His duo with choreographer Nawel Oulad for piano and dancer "Femme au Piano"[14] was performed in the 2017 Semaine de la Danse in Paris[15]
His Violin Concerto was recorded in 2017 with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra.
His composition "Festival Fanfare"[16] was the recipient of the 2002 OpenBook Award for Sacred Music.
Biography
Nicholas McRoberts was born in Melbourne in 1977 and grew up in Ballarat. He studied piano with Anna Jurkewicz and Bruce Keck while a student at Ballarat and Clarendon College.[17] He went on to study piano and composition at the Melbourne Conservatorium, the Victorian College of the Arts and the Australian National Academy of Music.[18] While tutoring at Trinity College, Melbourne, he founded the Trinity College Chamber Orchestra.[19] He studied conducting with Robert Rosen,[20] Jorma Panula[21] and Dejan Savić.[22] After moving to France, he continued studies at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP) under János Fürst and at the Ecole Normale (Conservatoire Cortot).
List of works
Operas
- Lyon (1996–2016)[7]
- Nera (2017–)
Orchestral
- Violin Concerto (2016)
- Symphony No.1 in B minor (1999–)
Ballet
- A Fairy Tale Begins (1998–)
- Les Tisseuses de Silence (2017)[10]
Theatre
- Quelque chose de Capucine Maillard (2017)[23]
Piano
- 8 Préludes (2000)
- 5 Nocturnes (1998)
- Serenade (2000)
- Femme au Piano (2017)
Vocal
- L'avenir
- Forbidding Morning
- Do Not Go Gentle
- Hope
- Sleep
- A Sliver Dove
Choral
- Darkest Spring
Organ
- Festival Fanfare (1997)[16]
References
- ^ Dariknews. ""Евгений Онегин" на сцената на Русенската операта – Русе – DarikNews.bg". dariknews.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ "Nicholas McRoberts". operabase.ch. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ^ "Truelinked – Truelinked". TrueLinked. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ^ CUNNINGHAM, MELISSA (29 April 2015). "Music in his soul". The Courier. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ "Opéra Montmartre". operamontmartre.fr. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
- ^ "Държавна Опера Русе". ruseopera.com. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ a b ""LYON" opera by Nicholas McRoberts". ruseopera.com. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ "Lyon – Nicholas McRoberts". free-spirit-city.eu. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ Vučković, Igor. "Vida Ognjenović | Arhipelag". www.arhipelag.rs. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ a b "Les tisseuses de silences". Compagnie Nawel Oulad. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ "Compagnie Nawel Oulad". Compagnie Nawel Oulad. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ "Home – Festival Les Aliennes 2017". Festival Les Aliennes 2017 (in French). Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ "Festival L'Appel de la Lune". Festival L'Appel de la Lune. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ "Actualités". Compagnie Nawel Oulad. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ "Semaine de la danse". Fédération de Paris de la Ligue de l'enseignement (in French). Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ a b "Catalogue of Australian Organ Composition 1866–2002" (PDF). Organ Historial Trust of Australia.
- ^ "Ballarat Clarendon College". clarendon.vic.edu.au. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ Ltd, August Pty. "Lost Alumni | Australian National Academy of Music". anam.com.au. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ "Clare Pullar – Conversations with the Next Generation, Trinity Today (Page16)" (PDF). Trinity College, Melbourne University.
- ^ alrunen (18 September 2015), 1965-xi-27 The Australian ballet: Raymonda reel 109.1 (AUDIO ONLY)., retrieved 21 September 2017
- ^ s.r.o., code: Moravio. "Dirigentské kurzy | Janáčkova filharmonie Ostrava". www.jfo.cz. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ "Dejan Savić". operabase.ch. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ Halfaoui, Idriss. "Compagnie Aziadé". Retrieved 31 July 2019.