Conductor Gil Rose has been a passionate advocate for new music, particularly by American composers, and he has a special interest in modern opera. Rose is best known for founding the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in 1996; Rose serves as the executive director. In 2013, Rose founded Odyssey Opera, which focuses on staging rarely performed and new operas. Rose has received several Grammy nominations for recordings with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, including winning the award for Best Opera Recording in 2020 for Tobias Picker: Fantastic Mr. Fox. The year 2022 saw the release of Gail Kubik: Symphony Concertante and John Corigliano: To Music under Rose's direction. By that time, his recording catalog comprised more than 75 albums.