Nick Roth (born 27 April 1982) is a British / Irish saxophonist, composer, producer and educator.
Work 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).
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, with performances at international festivals including the Irish representation at the ISCM World Music Days 2016 in Tongyeong, South Korea.
As a performer, his collaborations include work with Jennifer Walshe,Experimental Music Since 1970, Jennie Gottschalk, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, August 2016 Savina Yannatou, John Taylor, Iarla Ó Lionáird, M.C. Schmidt, Gavin Bryars, Bobby McFerrin, Tom Arthurs, Lucas Niggli, Kate Ellis, Mihály Borbély, Matthew Jacobson, 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, 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, a founding member of The Water Project, and a partner at Diatribe Records.
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).
Biography Roth was born into a musical family in London; 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.
Selected works Orchestra Woodland Heights (2014) for string orchestra The Wood from the Trees, The Journal of Music, May 2014. Journalofmusic.comTales from the Woodland, Groove Korea, May 2016 . Groovekorea.com Flocking III (2013) for saxophone orchestra Stille Nacht (2012) for jazz orchestra Flocking I–II (2012) for string orchestra
Solo / Ensemble Seed I–II (2016) for percussion and tape Peregrinus (2016) for cathedral bells and electronics Little Woodland Heights (2015) for children's ensemble 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 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
Theatre The Waste Land (2015) for four voices, jazz quintet and film CAOS (2015) for dancer and improvising ensemble Tundra (2014) for ensemble and tape Vartn af Godot (2014) for ensemble Peer Gynt (2013) for ensemble Don Giovanni (2011) for voices, ensemble and electronics
Discography Artist Album title Year of release Yurodny Haivka 2016 Jennifer Walshe Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde 2016 Cork Gamelan Ensemble The Three Forges 2015 Eine Jüdische Zeitreise Sefarad Hören 2014 Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh Music for an Elliptical Orbit 2014 Kate Ellis Jump 2014 Adrian Hart Cuisle 2014 Cora Venus Lunny Terminus 2014 Matthew Schellhorn Ian Wilson: Stations 2014 OKO I Love You Computer Mountain 2014 Benjamin Dwyer Scenes from Crow 2014 European Saxophone Ensemble Intimate in Public 2013 Roger Doyle The Thousand-Year Old Boy 2013 Francesco Turrisi Grigio 2013 ReDiviDeR meets I Dig Monk, Tuned 2013 Paul Roe and Contempo Quartet Dreams and Prayers 2013 Thought-Fox My Guess 2013 Various Tronix One 2012 Hidden Orchestra Archipelago 2012 Paul Dunlea Group Bi-polar 2012 Sefiroth Ensemble Arboles Lloran por Lluvia 2012 ReDiviDeR Never odd or eveN 2011 Elena Leonova That Crazed Girl 2011 Francesco Turrisi Fotografia 2011 Yurodny Evenset 2010 Tarab Tarab 2010 Hidden Orchestra Night Walks 2010 Simon Jermyn Hymni 2010 Izumi Kimura Asymmetry 2010 Paul Roe Between 2010 Isabelle O'Connell Reservoir 2010 Ian Wilson Double Trio 2009 Fuzzy Logic Ensemble Mouthpiece 2009 Francesco Turrisi Si Dolce è il Tormento 2009 Yurodny Odd Set 2008 The Blizzards Domino Effect 2008 Republic of Loose Vol.IV Johnny Pyro and the Dance of Evil 2008 Kai Big Band Projections 2006 Fuzzy Logic Ensemble New Hat 2005 CFour Cementex 2003
References
External links
Contemporary Music Centre Portal