Gil Rose is the founder and conductor of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP),[1] founder and General-Artistic Director of Odyssey Opera, Artistic Director of Monadnock Music Festival, Professor of Practice at Northeastern University, and Executive Producer of the record label "BMOP/sound.
[citation needed] Rose founded the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) in 1996 and has since then served as the artistic director of a group lauded as "one of the country's leading contemporary music ensembles.
[12] In 2015 the group performed the "enthusiastically cheered"[13] Boston premiere of Massenet's "Le Cid" under Rose's baton at the New England Conservatory of Music's Jordan Hall.
His performances with the ensemble included Verdi's Luisa Miller, Beethoven's Fidelio,[16] John Adams's Nixon in China, Gluck's Alceste (featuring Dawn Upshaw), Shostakovich's The Nose, Weber's Der Freischütz, Smetana's The Bartered Bride, Rossini's Tancredi (featuring Ewa Podleś), and the world premiere of Madame White Snake (with music by Zhou Long).
[17] He also directed the Voice of America Festival, a six-concert, three-day event, featuring BMOP in partnership with the Florestan Recital Project and the Tufts University Department of Music.
In 2006 he conducted an acclaimed North American premiere of Peter Eötvös's Angels in America with Opera Unlimited.