About

Rose Roberts (b. 2003) is an American composer whose work invites listeners and performers to connect with our shared humanity. Her work comes from a place of joy, awe, and endless fascination for music and for how sound worlds can serve as a space for people to come together, empathize with one another, and celebrate their similarities and differences. She has explored the world of music through multiple disciplines, having studied piano, cello, and vocal performance. 

Rose is a first prize winner in lyrical singing and piano at the Sette Note Romane competition in Rome, Italy, two-time finalist of the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, and was Artist in Residence for the 15th edition of Gravíssimo Festival. She is currently in residence at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Composition for Voice and Orchestra Workshop with Sir James MacMillan, working on a piece for voice and orchestra which will be premiered in summer of 2026.

Recent commissions and collaborations include new works for 100 Caminhos, Extended Duo, and Camerata Lusa. Some current projects include At the Edge of World, a piece for brass quintet written for 100 Caminhos and which commemorates the 500th anniversary of Luís Vaz de Camões, Three Young Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, a piece written for Extended Duo, Where the Evergreens Grow for tuba, trombone, and string quartet, written for Hugo Assunção and Sérgio Carolino for the 15th edition of Gravíssimo Festival, and Ode to Divertimento, a piece written for Camerata Lusa which responds to Mozart's Divertimento in D K. 136.

She enjoys cooking and baking, nature walks, playing padel, and spending time with family and friends.