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Nick Roth

Nick Roth is a saxophonist, composer, educator and producer based in Dublin, Ireland.

His work explores the liberation of improvisation from composition, the impact of natural form on technology and the contemporary interpretatio n of traditional music. A curious predisposition and a constant refusal to accept the existence of boundaries between the real and the imaginary has led to collaborations with many of the world's leading performers, composers, choreographers, visual artist s and ensembles. Similarly, a deep fascination with emergent pattern has led to on - going conversations with key scientific institutions in the interwoven fields of mathematical biology, forest canopy ecology and hydrology.

As a composer, he has been commissioned to write works for numerous ensembles, organisations and musicians including the Arts Council of Ireland, European Saxophone Ensemble, RTÉ Contempo Quartet, Trio InVento, Contemporary Music Centre, Paul Roe, Music for Galway, Yurodny Ensemble, Mode l Arts, The Ark, Emma Martin Dance, Common Ground and Rough Magic Theatre Company.

As a performer, he has worked in three continents with many of the world’s leading musicians including John Taylor, Savina Yann atou, Bobby McFerrin, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Jenni fer Walshe, Guillaume Orti, Tom Arthurs, Julian Arguelles, Ben Davi s, Crash Ensemble, Oren Marshall, Emer Mayock, Florian Ross, Merlin Shepherd, Jamie Oehlers, Mihály Borbély, Miklós Lukács, Gilad Atzmon, Sean Carpio, Kate Ellis, Cora Venus Lunny, Mark Tokar, Gabrielle Mi rabassi, Oleg Ponomarev, Francesco Turrisi, Paul Roe, Benjamin Dwyer, Furio di Castri, Zohar Fresco, Alkinoos Ioannidis, Theodosii Spassov and Pedram Zavir Kamini.

He has performed world premieres, often commissions, by composers Mamoru Fujeida, Alla Zaga ykevych, Jennifer Walshe, Ian Wilson, Kamran Ince, Roger Doyle, Dan Trueman, Judith Ring, Adrian Hart, Elena Leonova, Linda Buckley, Ed Bennett, Henk van der Meulen, Onur Turkmen, Christian Mason, Francis Heery, Matthew Whiteside, Amanda Feery, Piaras Hoba n and Elaine Agnew. Nick studied saxophone in London with Gilad Atzmon and composition in Dublin under Ronan Guilfoyle and Elaine Agnew. He also undertook further studies of improvisation in New York under Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Vijay Iyer and Pete r Epstein, of pedagogy in Hungary at the Kodály Institute under Katalin Kiss, and of Maqam and composition in Crete at the Labyrinth Workshop under Sokrat is Sinopoulos and Ross Daly.

Nick has given workshops or lectures at University College Cork (UCC), Trinity College Dublin (TCD), California Academy of Sciences, University College Dublin (UCD), Magdalen College Oxford, Goldsmiths University London, Institute for Biodiversity, Science and Sustainability, San Francisco (IBSS), Cork School of Music, The University of Limerick (UL), The National University of Ireland (NUI), The Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM), The Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), The University of Aalborg, Copenhagen and the Norwegian Center for Technology in Music and the Arts (NOTAM).

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Panos Ghikas: Unrealtime

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The cover of Greek composer/improvisor Panos Ghikas' Unrealtime certainly piques the curiosity regarding the musical content within the grooves. The title provides just a whiff of a clue. The plot thickens with a perusal of the personnel, which reveals, that alongside Nick Roth on alto and soprano saxophones and Luis Tabuenca on percussion, the leader handles 'unrealtime interface' and pianist Pavlos Antoniadis doubles on 'motion followers.' On this evidence alone it would not be unreasonable to expect technological and conceptual ...

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ReDiviDeR: Mere Nation

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It may be disappointing to enigmatologists that there are no palindromes or obvious anagrams from ReDiviDeR on its third Diatribe Records release, following Never Odd Or Even (2011) and I Dig Monk, Tuned (2013). Musicophiles, however, should be delighted, for like its predecessors, Mere Nation is a colorful box of delights. Rambunctious, brooding and tender in turn, drummer Matthew Jacobson's compositions explore a heady no man's land between discipline and freedom. Thirteen years into ReDiviDeR's trajectory, Jacobson, alto ...

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T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land With Nick Roth Quintet at Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival 2015

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T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land with Nick Roth Quintet Ardhowen Theatre Enniskillen, N. Ireland August 1, 2015 It was hard to know what to expect from the combination of the reading of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and the specially commissioned jazz soundscape composed by Nick Roth. That T.S. Eliot was represented at all in a festival devoted to the work and life of the Nobel Prize winning writer Samuel Beckett seemed ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Mere Nation

Diatribe Records
2020

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Unrealtime

Diatribe Records
2020

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Tarab

JazzChicago.Net
2011

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Evenset

Diatribe Recordings
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Griffmadar

From: Evenset
By Nick Roth

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