Stewart Rose

Stewart Rose, French Horn player, is a native of New York City.  He is Principal Horn with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, has played Principal Horn with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s since 1983 and in 1989 became Principal Horn with the New York City Opera Orchestra. Mr. Rose has also performed as Guest Principal Horn with many orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra.

He recently released to great critical acclaim, his first solo CD “From the Forest”, a collection of early Classical works for Horn and Orchestra by Haydn, Telemann, Leopold Mozart and Christoph Forster with the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble. Mr. Rose has made over 100 recordings of the chamber music and orchestral literature for BMG, Sony Classical, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI and Music Masters.

The New York Times critic John Rockwell has noted Stewart Rose for his “remarkable virtuosity, agility and fluency, and his ability to retain the horn's cheery rusticity.”

Buffalo Globe critic Herman Trotter said of “From the Forest”: “This is a recording to be treasured, not only by horn players but by average music lovers searching for new frontiers of musical excellence.”