Drawing on his experiences as a scholar and performer, Rodin argues that composers activated a new collection of compositional building blocks to create a powerful and imaginative range of musical experiences (Cambridge University Press). An in-progress book explores how fifteenth-century polyphony happens in time. A recent essay in Early Music tackles the longstanding problem of the Josquin canon, classifying all 346 pieces somewhere attributed to Josquin in descending order of confidence. His articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music & Letters, Acta Musicologica, and other major journals. He is the author of "Josquin’s Rome: Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel" (Oxford University Press, 2012), editor of a volume of the L’homme armé masses for the New Josquin Edition (2014), and co-editor of "The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music" (2015). For his work with Cut Circle he has received the Prix Olivier Messiaen, the Noah Greenberg Award, Editor’s Choice (Gramophone), and a Diapason d’Or. Rodin is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation the Université Libre de Bruxelles the American Council of Learned Societies the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and the American Musicological Society. As Director of the ensemble Cut Circle (), he works with world-class singers to animate Renaissance music. As Director of the Josquin Research Project (), he uses digital tools to explore a large musical corpus. Immersing himself in the original sources, he sings from choirbooks, memorizes melodies and their texts, and recreates performances held at weddings, liturgical ceremonies, and feasts. Robertson plays on a viola (1992) made by fellow Canadian John Newton and a bow (2016) by Francois Malo.īioJesse Rodin strives to make contact with lived musical experiences of the Renaissance. She has served on the jury of several international competitions including the Banff International String Quartet Competition, the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and in spring of 2015, the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. She participated in the Marlboro Festival for several years and and toured with Musicians from Marlboro before co-founding the SLSQ. Robertson tours regularly, performing 100+ concerts worldwide per season (this season in Berlin, Florence, London, New York, Toronto, and others) but also nurtures close ties to the Stanford community performing in various classes, dormitories, laboratories, hospitals, and in Stanford's glorious Bing Concert Hall. Robertson also holds a degree from the University of British Columbia where she studied with her mentor, Gerald Stanick. A graduate of the Curtis Institute and the Juilliard School, Ms. Robertson teaches viola, coaches chamber music, and also spearheads the SLSQ's Emerging String Quartet Program at Stanford and the SLSQ's annual Chamber Music Seminar. Lawrence String Quartet, Lesley Robertson (viola) is proud to make her life at Stanford University where along with her SLSQ colleagues she directs the chamber music at the Department of Music. Lesley Robertson Artist in Residence in MusicīioNow celebrating 30 years with the internationally celebrated St.
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