Stefan Rogers
Recent Projects
Nikolai Roslavets - Symphony in C minor
(Premier Recording)
02.2022
Along with an orchestra formed of students and alumni of the Royal Northern College of Music, Stefan conducted the first recording of an early symphony by the composer Nikolai Roslavets. Roslavets was one of the leading authorities in modern music in the early Soviet Union who has since become almost forgotten due to the heavy persecution he experienced from the authorities during the 1930s.
Recital Series with Ethan Mitchell
04/05.2023
In 2023 Stefan collaborated with the composer and pianist, Ethan Mitchell to take a diverse and exciting programme across England. In addition to the performance of the much loved 2nd sonatas of Johannes Brahms and Gabriel Fauré, the programme featured Ethan Mitchell's own composition: Two Sketches for Cello and Piano, and a rarely performed sonata by the impressionist composer and conductor, Emanuel Rhené-Baton.
Enys Chamber Orchestra Concert with Xander Croft
04.2023
The Enys Chamber Orchestra was formed by Stefan in collaboration with a group of students from the Royal Northern College of Music. Their concert in the spring of 2023 performed a programme of music from mid nineteenth century Germany, with focus on exploring the music with a Classical approach. This included consideration of the differences between period and modern instruments, and how to create a more stylistically typical performance of the programme despite these differences. The concert included a performance of Mendelssohn's famous E minor Violin Concerto by the 1st violinist of the Elmore Quartet, Xander Croft.
Reflections of the Great War
03.2023
Performing as a member of the Birchwood Quartet, Stefan organised a concert which explored two works written against the backdrop of the First World War. Both works, while being among the finest chamber music by their respective composers, were written in vastly different circumstances. Louis Vierne's dramatic Piano Quintet is quite possibly one of the most powerful expressions of grief ever to be put to music, written in the wake of his son's death on the front line, is contrasted by Edward Elgar's equally powerful, but far more hope-filled work for the same ensemble which was written closer to the end of the war and has since become a staple of the piano quintet repertoire.
