Director of Choral Activities
Professor of Music
Phone: 903.566.7304
Email: crose@uttyler.edu
Building: FAC 1213
Department: School of Performing Arts
Additional Department: Music
Cameron Rose
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.
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.