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.

Nicholas McRoberts conducting the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra

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 "Adagio for Strings" was commissioned for the Nürtinger Chamber Orchestra and first performed on November 14, 2021.[10] It was written during the Covid lockdowns and recorded with the Janaček Philharmonic in March 2021.[11]

In September 2019 he was named conductor of the Orchestre Démos du Grand Verdun with the Philharmonie de Paris.[12]

His ballet "Les Tisseuses de Silence" created for the Nawel Oulad Compagnie[13] was performed in Paris in 2017 in the Festival Les Aliennes[14] and the Festival Appel de la Lune.[15]

His duo with choreographer Nawel Oulad for piano and dancer "Femme au Piano"[16] was performed in the 2017 Semaine de la Danse in Paris[17]

His Violin Concerto was recorded in 2017 with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra.

His composition "Festival Fanfare"[18] 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.[19] 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.[20] While tutoring at Trinity College, Melbourne, he founded the Trinity College Chamber Orchestra.[21] He studied conducting with Robert Rosen,[22] Jorma Panula[23] and Dejan Savić.[24] 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
  • Merlin (2020-)
  • Nera (2017–2019)
  • Lyon (1996–2016)

Orchestral
  • Symphony No.2 in G minor (2021-)
  • Symphony No.1 in B minor (1999-2020)
  • Violin Concerto (2016)
  • Orchestral Suite "The Traveller" (1995-)

Chamber
  • Adagio for Strings (2020-2021)
  • Diesque (1998)

Ballet
  • "Même les rêves ont peur de mourir" (2018)
  • "Les Tisseuses de Silence" (2017)
  • A Fairy Tale Begins (1998-)

Piano
  • Cinq Nocturnes (2020)
  • Femme au Piano (2017)
  • 8 Préludes (2000)
  • Five Nocturnes (1998)
  • Serenade (2000)

Vocal
  • Wild Nights - Dickinson Cycle (2018)
  • Do Not Go Gentle (2002)
  • French Songs (1995)
  • Valediction Forbidding Mourning (1995)
  • Keats Cycle (1993-2006)

Organ
  • Festival Fanfare (1997)

References
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  2. "Nicholas McRoberts". operabase.ch. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  3. "Truelinked – Truelinked". TrueLinked. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  4. CUNNINGHAM, MELISSA (29 April 2015). "Music in his soul". The Courier. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  5. "Opéra Montmartre". operamontmartre.fr. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  6. "Държавна Опера Русе". ruseopera.com. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  7. ""LYON" opera by Nicholas McRoberts". ruseopera.com. Archived from the original on 21 September 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  8. "Lyon – Nicholas McRoberts". free-spirit-city.eu. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  9. Vučković, Igor. "Vida Ognjenović | Arhipelag". www.arhipelag.rs. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  10. "Nürtinger Kammerorchester spielte zum Volkstrauertag- NÜRTINGER ZEITUNG". www.ntz.de. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  11. Channel, The Violin (25 January 2022). "NEW MUSIC TUESDAY | Composer Nicholas McRoberts' New "Adagio for Strings"". The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  12. "Verdun. Un chef d'orchestre australien dirige des enfants verdunois". www.estrepublicain.fr (in French). Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  13. "Compagnie Nawel Oulad". Compagnie Nawel Oulad. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  14. "Home – Festival Les Aliennes 2017". Festival Les Aliennes 2017 (in French). Archived from the original on 20 September 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  15. "Festival L'Appel de la Lune". Festival L'Appel de la Lune. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  16. "Actualités". Compagnie Nawel Oulad. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  17. "Semaine de la danse". Fédération de Paris de la Ligue de l'enseignement (in French). Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  18. "Catalogue of Australian Organ Composition 1866–2002" (PDF). Organ Historial Trust of Australia.
  19. "Ballarat Clarendon College". clarendon.vic.edu.au. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  20. Ltd, August Pty. "1998 | Australian National Academy of Music". ANAM. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  21. "Clare Pullar – Conversations with the Next Generation, Trinity Today (Page16)" (PDF). Trinity College, Melbourne University.
  22. alrunen (18 September 2015), 1965-xi-27 The Australian ballet: Raymonda reel 109.1 (AUDIO ONLY)., retrieved 21 September 2017
  23. s.r.o., code: Moravio. "Dirigentské kurzy | Janáčkova filharmonie Ostrava". www.jfo.cz. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  24. "Dejan Savić". operabase.ch. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
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