Roger Redgate graduated at the Royal College of Music, where he won prizes for composition, violin performance, harmony and counterpoint, studying composition with Edwin Roxburgh and electronic music with Lawrence Casserley. A DAAD scholarship enabled him to study with Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber in Freiburg. From 1989 to 1992 he was Northern Arts Composer Fellow, he has lectured at Durham and Newcastle Universities. He was invited as guest composer and conductor at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992 and 1994 where he received the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis for composition. He is conductor and artistic director of Ensemble Exposé, with whom he has performed at many European festivals and on BBC Radio 3 and recently released a CD of music by Brian Ferneyhough.
He has worked in the fields of jazz, improvised music, film and television (including programmes for the BBC and Channel 4), and performance art. His compositions have been performed extensively throughout Europe, Australia and the USA and he has received commissions from the BBC, the French Ministry of Culture, the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, the Venice Biennale and Ensemble 21 New York. He has published articles on music and culture, the music of Brian Ferneyhough and Michael Finnissy, including a chapter in the book Uncommon Ground: The Music of Michael Finnissy.
CD recordings of his works are available on the Coviello, Oboe Classics, NMC, Metier and Edition Zeitklang labels and further recordings are in preparation due for release on the Metier and NMC labels. His compositions are published by Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris, United Music Publishers, London and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
Areas of supervision
Current Postgraduate Research Students in Composition:
Mark Barden Richard Bolley Polly Hewitt Wojciech Kosma Matt Lewis Chun-Ming Lu Neil March Coreen Morsink Silvia Rosani Paul Sarcich Jeff Spencer Stamatia Statherou Jerry Wigens Alistair Zaldua
Maja Mitrovic (Submitted) Mizuka Yamamoto (Performance) (submitted)
Recorded works
Own Works
2009 Oboe QuintetandEperons, onGreatest Hits of All Time (Metier msv 28513). Recorded by Christopher Redgate/Kreutzer Quartet/Julian Warburton.
Residua. Recorded by Jane Chapman on Wired(NMC D145)
2008 Complete Piano Music: Pas au-delà, Genoi Hoios Essi, Eidos, Beuys, trace-arc-écart, Monk. Recorded by Nicolas Hodges on Coviello Contemporary COV60809
2006 AusgangspunkteRecorded by Christopher Redgate on Oboe Classics (CC2015) +R Recorded by Rolf Borch on Step Inside, Aurora (ACD 5046) +R Recorded by Andrew Sparling (NMC D092)
2005 Mirlitonnades Recorded by Katherine Durran and Alison Smart on New French Song(Metier MSV CD92100) écart Recorded by Thalia Myers (piano) on Spectrum USK Recordings (USK 1227CDD)
2004 ruins true refuge Recorded by Corado Canonici on A Roaring Flame (NMC D079)
2001 Eperons Recorded by Peter Veale and Olaf Tzschoppe (Trio Surplus), Edition Zeitklang, Germany.
2000 arc Recorded by Thalia Myers (piano) on Spectrum (NMC 0057)
1999 trace Recorded by Thalia Myers (piano) on Spectrum (NMC 0051)
As Conductor
2008 Brian Ferneyhough: Chamber Music - Allgebrah, Flurries, Incipits, In Nomine EnsembleExposé on Metier (MSV 28504) Edwin Roxburgh: Oboe Music - Elegy, EnsembleExposé, Metier
2007 Joanna Bailie: Waning Mary Bellamy: Earth and Sky Reflect Each Other Joe Cutler: Visions of a Floating World Sam Hayden: Recoil Jonathan Powell: Saturnine Luke Stoneham: Rictus Heads Sohrab Uduman: In Accord – In motion All for Critical Notice/BMIC MP3 Downloads
2006 Joe Cutler: Visions of a Floating World, Unknown Public/BMIC (UPCN01)
2000 Fabrice Fitch: Filigranes pour les Freres Limbourg, on Wind-Up, Metier (MSV CD92042)
1998 Richard Barrett: what remains, Topologies, Musicworks 72, Toronto, Canada
1991 Michael Finnissy: The Chamber Music, Etcetera (KTC 1096) with Roger Redgate –violin
Redgate, Roger. 2020. 'Complexity: The Precise Articulation of the Imprecise'. In: Imperfection as an Aesthetic Idea in Music. Institute for Music Aesthetics and the Artistic Research Doctoral School of the University for Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria, Austria 19 – 21 November 2020.
