Hailed as “innovative” and “stylish” by the Chicago Classical Review, violist Rose Wollman has performed in venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, the Krannert Center and Constitution Hall (US), Suntory Hall (Japan), and KKL (Switzerland). Rose is a champion of new music as well as a fledgling composer. She has spent her career commissioning and performing new pieces, working with groundbreaking composers such as Pierre Boulez, Augusta Read Thomas, Garth Knox, Don Freund, Atar Arad, David Dzubay, Gabriela Ortiz, and Mario Lavista. 

Rose was the founding violist of the Petar Jankovic Ensemble and the Larchmere String Quartet with whom she released albums, including a premiere recording of Stephan Krehl’s String Quartet for the NAXOS label. Rose’s 2022 solo album, Loop: Ligeti’s Inspiration & Legacy, explores György Ligeti’s Sonata for Viola Solo through the lens of baroque and newly composed music. Her 2024 EP, Partita Party, is a new composition and recording in collaboration with Atar Arad and three other violists. Rose’s latest album, Becoming America, will be released in fall 2026 and consists of five new works for viola, soprano and piano. This will be the third release on her record label SBOV Music (Sounds Better on Viola).

Rose has performed with the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. She served as principal violist of the Evansville Philharmonic and the Cape Cod Symphony. She has collaborated with diverse artists such as Atar Arad, Michael Kannen, James Dunham, Rachel Barton Pine, choreographer Elizabeth Shea, tango pianist and composer Julián Peralta, tango bassist Pablo Aslan, and Latin jazz percussionist Michael Spiro.

Rose is Assistant Professor of Viola at Colorado State University ​and serves on the board of the American Viola Society. She holds a D.M. from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as well as degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music and the University of Illinois. Her primary teachers are Atar Arad, Carol Rodland, Masumi Rostad, Rudolf Haken, and Julia Adams. For more information visit www.rosewollman.com.