biography

Award-winning artist and filmmaker Tal Rosner's work has been screened across the world and won him a BAFTA award for his title sequence for
Channel 4's series Skins (2008). He made his name with radical interpretations of musical compositions. His work has been described as ‘hypnotic’ and ‘strikingly different’, with his unique visual eye earning him the label of ‘choreographer of the moving image’.

Since 2005 he has been collaborating with musicians, combining multiple layers of sound and visuals to create a new language of classical/contemporary music videos. This includes an extensive collaboration with Katia and Marielle Labèque on Stravinsky and Debussy's two piano music; a live performance of Nancarrow's Player Piano Studies (Barbican Festival 2007 and Serpentine Summer Pavilion 2008); and In Seven Days, Piano Concerto with Moving Image* (2008), composed by Thomas Adès and commissioned by The Southbank Centre in London and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His new video for Esa-Pekka Salonen's Lachen Verlernt (2009) with violinist Jennifer Koh, had its live performance premiere in Oberlin in October 2009 and is being be followed by a US tour throughout 2010/11.

His independent experimental films Doppelganger (2005) and Without You (2008) have been screened at prestigious film festivals and venues, including Clermont-Ferrand, Rotterdam, Tribeca (NYC), Onedotzero and Tate Modern in London. Commissioned by Animate Projects for Channel 4 and Arts Council England, Without You has earned him critical acclaim and gained a wide following since its appearance, as well as TV broadcasts in the UK and France/Canal +. A retrospective was dedicated to his work at the Forum des Images in Paris, as part of the Nemo Festival in April 2009. His solo exhibition, Family Tree – a multi-channel video installation – was launched at Tenderpixel Gallery, London in February 2010.

He is currently working on two new commissions for the new home of the New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami, designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry.

* Following its UK and US premieres at the Royal Festival Hall in London and the Disney Hall in LA, In Seven Days began a three year world-wide tour in the autumn of 2009 with the Zurich Tonhalle and Stockholm Konserthus and will continue to New York (NY Philharmonic), Cologne, Lisbon and Melbourne International Festival.1).