Composer Rose Bolton's teachers have included Jack Behrens, Alexina Louie, John Rea, Denys Bouliane, Udo Kasemets and Malcolm Goldstein. Ms. Bolton has received several awards, including a Chalmers Foundation grant in 2003, the 2002 Toronto Emerging Composer Award, the H.C. Aitken prize of the 1995 New Music Concerts' young composers' competition and two prizes in the 1999 SOCAN awards for young composers. She has received commissions from leading new music interpreters such as the Esprit Orchestra, ERGO, Continuum Contemporary Music, Arraymusic, percussionist Aiyun Huang, accordionist Joseph Petric, Soprano Janice Jackson, L'ensemble contemporain de Montréal, as well as being featured on New Music Concerts, Vancouver New Music and New York's Music at the Anthology (MATA).