“Now in our twenty-third year of operation, the Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy, has welcomed over 1000 Fellows from 61 different countries. In the 2018-2019 academic year, 60 Fellows from 20 countries have come to Bogliasco to work on projects that enrich the global cultural landscape.”

Bogliasco Fellowship

September 08, 2019

Kurt Rohde will be at the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa, Italy, for Fall 2019. While in residence, Rohde will compose seeking all that’s still unsung, a new work for string quartet and electronics commissioned by the Lydian Quartet. Rohde’s new piece listens to the rapidly changing sonics of the “outside” natural world and brings them “inside.”

It is an interior mirroring of the sounds that surround us and that we take for granted, many of which are disappearing. seeking all that’s still unsung documents in Rohde’s “odd” music the gradual disappearance of songs that will never be sung again. An American nonprofit with a program in Italy, the Bogliasco Foundation awards Fellowships to individuals who have made significant contributions in the arts and humanities.

Kurt Rohde

Violist and composer Kurt Rohde is a recipient of the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, a Radcliffe-Harvard Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lydian String Quartet Commission Prize, and commission awards from the Barlow, Fromm, Hanson, and Koussevitzky Foundations, Creative Capital, the NEA, and New Music/USA. Kurt has received the Academy Award, Charles Ives Fellowship, and Wise-Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Kurt teaches at UC Davis and is the Artistic Director of the Composers Conference.