Lily Barmor Rose was born into a musical family in 1969, in Haifa, Israel. She began piano lessons at the age of seven. In 1979 her family moved to the United States. Lily's pursuit of musical education has led her to earn several degrees including a bachelor's degree in Piano Performance from California Institute of the Arts, a post-graduate performance diploma at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a master's degree in Piano Performance from Drake University. Her passion for composing led her to study film scoring at University of California in Los Angeles. After whetting her appetite for composition at UCLA, she chose to earn her Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory at the University of Oregon, completing her studies in 2004. In 2005 she married Alex Rose, and added Rose to her last name. During the fall of the following year the couple welcomed the birth of their first child. That same year, Lily's husband's job as a Judge Advocate in the US Air Force brought their family from Seattle, Washington, to San Antonio, Texas, where Lily is currently teaching as an Adjunct Professor of Piano at the University of the Incarnate Word. Meanwhile, Lily's compositions' have received several accolades. Return To The Dead Sea, scored for soprano and alto saxophone (same performer), and percussion, was featured in the 2006 summer/autumn issue of the Oregon Literary Review. (An audio recording and score of the composition are available at: orelitrev.startlogic.com/v1n2/OLR-rose.htm).
In August 2006, the Cappella Gloriana Choral Competition in San Diego, California, awarded Lily's composition, October second place, and performed it live in a concert in November 2007. October is scored for SATB choir and piano with text of Robert Frost. Most recently, ERM Media awarded the composer a Masterworks Award in conjunction with the recording of the Overture from her oratorio, The Last Days Of King Saul. The Overture is scored for shofar (a ram's horn), celesta, choir, soloists, and chamber orchestra, with the Hebrew text of poet Saul Tchernichowscky. The Overture was recorded by the Prague Radio Symphony, and was released in April, 2008 on the CD Masterworks Of The New Era, Volume 12. (An audio excerpt and CD purchase information are available at www.numusicdirect.com/MW12.html).

Dissertation: The Last Days of King Saul
The oratorio is scored for choir, soloists, shofar, celesta and orchestra.
The libretto is a setting of two Hebrew ballads of Saul Tchernichovski.
2004 Ani Ledodi (2 sopranos, piano)
A Day To Remember (soprano, piano)
2002 Gigue (piano)
A Red Red Rose (soprano, piano)
2001 Return to the Dead Sea: (saxophone, percussion)
Cape Perpetua (flugal horn, percussion)
2000 Suite for Marimba
Fanfare (wind quintet)
Songs With Poetry of Robert Frost
Rhapsody (cello, piano)
1999 Days of Rain (wind Ensemble)
Fugue in B Minor (piano)
Dance of the Gummy Bears (flute, alto saxophone, vibraphone)
1998 Invention in E Minor (piano)
Symphony in C Minor: I. Reminiscence
New Year's March (wind Ensemble)
Red Orchid (soprano saxophone, piano)
Ohseh Shalom (Canzona)
Halleluya, Hallelu et Adoni (4-voiced Fugue)
1997 Unspoken Obsession (violin, piano)
Through the Fields of Innocence (strings, woodwinds, piano, percussion)
Music for a Small Jungle (cello, saxophone, bass, piano, percussion)
1996 Temporarily (soprano, violin, saxophone, piano/original lyrics)
Shaded Images (soprano, violin, saxophone, piano/original lyrics)