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).

He is artistic director of the Yurodny Ensemble and a founder member of the Water Project. He is also a director of Ireland’s leading record label for new music Diatribe Records and as an individual recording artist and producer he h as a discography of more than 35 critically accl aimed releases.

His music is represented by the Co ntemporary Music Centre (CMC) and the Association of Irish Composers (AIC).
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