Steve Rosse
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Steve Rosse has been Principal Tubist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
for the past ten years. A native of San Diego, California, Rosse's
primary teachers include Brent Dutton, Daniel Perantoni at Arizona State
University, Arnold Jacobs, Abe Torchinsky, and Mel Culbertson. Before
moving to Australia, Rosse was Principal Tubist with the New Mexico
Symphony, RAI Torino (Italy) Radio Symphony Orchastra, World Orchestra of
Jeunesses Musicales, and also spent a summer season as Guest Principal
Tuba with the San Diego Symphony. Since moving to Australia, Mr. Rosse has
appeared as Guest Principal with the San Francisco Symphony and Academy
of St. Martin in the Fields.
As a soloist Rosse has won prizes at major solo competitions in the USA,
Europe, and Australia, has toured four continents as a soloist including
recent recitals in Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima, and
Hokkaido, Japan. He has performed major concertos with the Sydney,
Tasmanian and Adelaide Sydmphony Orchestra in Australia, as well as the
Ochcestre Sinfonia de Lyon, Minnesota Pops Orchestra, and several concert
bands throughout Japan and the USA.
Mr. Rosse is currently Lecturer of Tuba at the Sydney Conservatorium of
Music, and the Canberra Institute of the Arts where he teaches an
international class of tuba students from four countries. His former
students from these institutions now occupy major positions in Europe,
Australia, and Asia.
Mr. Rosse is very active in tuba activities within Australia and abroad.
He hosted two TubaMania International Conference ('95&'99), was Director
of
Solo Competitions at ITEC'97 in Riva del Garda, was International Advisor
for ITEC '98, and is currently Vice President of International Relations
for T.U.B.A, and served on the Jury for the 2000 Markneukirchen
International Competitions.
Mr. Rosse appears at ITEC 2001 courtesy of Wenzel Meinl GmbH and the
Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Rosse plays Melton/Meinl Weston Tubas.
The appearance of Mr. Rosse was made possible by the support
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