Music
Cameron Rose - Balderas
Title: Director of Choral Activities, Professor of Music
Department: Music
Building: FAC 1213 (Center for the Musical Arts)
Email: crose@uttyler.edu
Phone: 903.566.7304
Degrees
- Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting, The University of Utah
- Advanced Studies Certificate in Scoring for Motion Pictures & Television, University of Southern California
- Master of Arts in Composition, University of Minnesota
- Bachelor of Music in Composition, Cum Laude, Brigham Young University
Biography
CAMERON ROSE - BALDERAS has served as the Director of Choral Activities at The University of Texas at Tyler since 2008, where he conducts the Patriot Singers and Concert Chorale. Both ensembles perform a vibrant and challenging repertoire from choral-orchestral masterworks to tight vocal jazz, and from a wide span of cultural traditions. The university choirs have been featured at College Music Society conferences and have shared the stage with the Swingle Singers, the Philippine Madrigal Singers, Vocalosity and the East Texas Symphony Orchestra. In 2018 they released the university’s first CD album, "I Carry Your Heart With Me." In 2022, Dr. Rose received the Jack and Dorothy Fay White Fellowship for Teaching Excellence Award, and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award from UT Tyler.
Outside of the university, Dr. Rose is founder and Music Director of CANTORI - Choral Artists of East Texas, an auditioned regional ensemble of 40 singers. He also currently serves as Music Director and organist at St. Francis Episcopal Church and Chancel Choir Director at First Christian Church in Tyler.
Previously he served as founder and Music Director of the Utah Master Chorale, Assistant Director and Accompanist of the University of Utah Singers and A Cappella Choir, and Assistant Orchestra Conductor and Chorus Master of the American West Symphony and Chorus. He also served in professional arts administration as Executive Office Special Projects Manager with the Los Angeles Philharmonic / Hollywood Bowl.
As a composer, Dr. Rose's works have been performed by numerous ensembles and soloists, including the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square, and Leticia Oaks Strong, Los Angeles Philharmonic violist. His music has also served as scores for award-winning media projects and the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics. An accomplished pianist, he performed as the youngest of 84 "Rhapsody in Blue" pianists in the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics Opening Ceremonies.
His professional musical experiences span classical orchestral to jazz piano, and from the electronic studio to the sacred choral tradition. His teachers have included Brady Allred (conducting), Dominick Argento, Stephen Paulus, Judith Lang Zaimont, and Merrill Bradshaw (composition), Mack Wilberg (choral performance), Irene Peery and Susan Duehlmeier (piano). At Brigham Young University he was a Trustees Scholar, a Graduate Fellow at the University of Minnesota, and as a doctoral student he received the University of Utah Graduate Teaching Award two consecutive years, selected from across all university disciplines.