About

Artist and creative director Tal Rosner works closely with musicians, theatre makers and fashion brands - combining multiple layers of sound and visuals to create video installations and live performances.

The scope of his output covers a uniquely wide spectrum: from world leading orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, via rock legends Rolling Stones to London’s V&A Museum, the Commonwealth Games and fashion houses Telfar and Marni. His musical eye has earned him a spotlight on the international stage for video design, as well as critical acclaim for his distinctive approach to rhythm and colour.

MUSIC

In 2021 Rosner conceived MYTHOS for Staatsoper Hannover - an entire evening dedicated to Sibelius’ Tone Poems, incorporating video and lighting design. The show was performed live and streamed globally. In 2020 he created a new video interpretation of Scriabin's Prometheus, The Poem of Fire, commissioned by Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to mark their 125th Anniversary.

Other musical highlights include installations for Steve Reich's Tehillim (Psalms), commissioned by the Barbican Centre (2017); for Olga Neuwirth's Disenchanted Island, commissioned by IRCAM and Centre Pompidou (2017); and for Lament, a co-creation with composer Christopher Mayo, commissioned by Nuit Blanche Toronto (2018).

Previous large-scale orchestral work include Esa-Pekka Salonen's Foreign Bodies (2018), commissioned by the New York Philharmonic; Britten's Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia (2013-16), commissioned by the New World Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and BBC Symphony Orchestra; and In Seven Days (Piano Concerto with Moving Image), a collaboration with Thomas Adès, commissioned by the Southbank Centre and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (2008), and later performed with the New York Philharmonic, Tonhalle Zürich and Cologne Philharmonie.

STAGE

Most recently, Rosner has been announced as video designer for The Hunger Games: On Stage (dir: Matthew Dunster), which will premiere in 2025. In 2022, he designed the video for both Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the XXII Commonwealth Games in Birmingham; and for Ainadamar (dir. Deborah Colker) for Scottish Opera, Detroit Opera, Welsh National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera (October 2024). His work is currently on stage in the West End transfer of Next to Normal (dir. Mike Longhurst), which originated at the Donmar Warehouse (2023).

In 2019 he originated a brand new adaptation of Astrid Lingren's Brothers Lionheart for The Royal Danish Playhouse in Copenhagen (dir. Thomas Bendixen), which returned for further runs in 2022 and 2023, and commissioned to design and co-direct a new production of Wagner's Die Walküre for Opéra National de Bordeaux, in collaboration with Julia Burbach.

Rosner co-designed Shopping and F'ing (dir. Sean Holmes) with long-term collaborator Jon Bausor for the Lyric Hammersmith (2016), and co-created 8 Minutes (2017), an hour-long multimedia dance piece, with choreographer Alexander Whitley and composer Daniel Wohl for Sadler's Wells.

Additional theatre and dance credits include: Everyman (dir. Rufus Norris) and Husbands and Sons (dir. Marianne Elliott) at the National Theatre; You For Me For You (dir. Richard Twyman) and X, The Glow (dir. Vicky Featherstone) at the Royal Court; The Most Incredible Thing (Pet Shop Boys, dir. Javier de Frutos) for Charlotte Ballet, North Carolina; and Les Enfants Terribles (Philip Glass, dir. Javier de Frutos) at the Royal Ballet.

BRAND

In the commercial arena, Rosner most recently designed the video element for the V&A museum’s blockbuster exhibition DIVA, which ran for 10 months from June 2023 to April 2024 and will travel to Rotterdam Kunsthal (November 2024).

He creatively directed the content for Louis Vuitton’s traveling exhibit Time Capsule as well as LVX in Beverly Hills; The Pet Shop Boys Super Tour (worldwide); and the Rolling Stones’ No Filter European Tour (produced by Treatment Studio).

In 2020 he directed the video element in Marni’s MARNIFESTO, which took its SS21 collection out to the world and streamed globally to an audience of over 20,000; and has collaborated with NYC collective TELFAR on their SS20 runway show at Paris Fashion Week and AW20 installation at Pitti Uomo Florence.

Chronograph (2011), his site-specific digital art mural in collaboration with fellow artist Casey Reas, inaugurated the New World Symphony building in Miami Beach, designed by Frank Gehry, and has been screened daily on its 7,000-square-foot exterior projection wall ever since.

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Rosner won the BAFTA for Best Title Sequence (2008) for the Channel 4 television series Skins. He was born in Jerusalem and now lives and works in London.