Biography
Rouse studied with Richard Hoffmann at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, graduating in 1971, and later completed graduate degrees under Karel Husa at Cornell University in 1977. In between, Rouse studied privately with George Crumb. Early recognition came from the BMI Foundation's BMI Student Composer Awards in 1972 and 1973. Rouse taught at the University of Michigan from 1978 to 1981, where he was also a Junior Fellow in the University's Society of Fellows, and at the Eastman School of Music from 1981 to 2002. He currently teaches at the Juilliard School (since 1997). His Symphony No. 1 was awarded the Kennedy Center's Friedheim Award in 1998, and his Trombone Concerto was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Music. In 2002, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In that year he won a Grammy for best contemporary composition for his "Concert de Gaudi". In 2009 he was named Musical America's Composer of the Year and in 2012 the New York Philharmonic's Composer-in-Residence. He has also served as Composer-in-Residence with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (1985-1988), the Tanglewood Music Festival (1997), the Helsinki Biennale (1997), the Pacific Music Festival (1998), and the Aspen Music Festival annually since 2000.
Rouse's music has been recorded by numerous major classical music labels, including Telarc, Koch, Sony, RCA Victor, Nonesuch, Teldec, BIS and Ondine.
His notable students include Michael Torke, Nico Muhly, Kamran Ince, Marc Mellits, Robert Paterson, Jude Vaclavik, Kevin Puts, D. J. Sparr, and Joseph Lukasik.
He has four children: Angela, Jillian, Alexandra, and Adrian.
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