Fall Festival Conductors Workshop
October 11-16, 2010
Faculty:
Donald Thulean, Music Director Emeritus, Spokane Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence Golan, Music Director, Yakima Symphony Orchestra, Director of Orchestras and Opera, University of Denver
Daron Aric Hagen, Composer, Artistic Director, Seasons Festival
Larry Alan Smith, Composer, Conductor, Poet, Arts Consultant
Brooke Creswell, Former Music Director, Yakima Symphony Orchestra
Robert Frankenberry, Pianist, Artistic Administrator, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh
Yakima Symphony Chamber Orchestra
Features:
Podium time (20 minutes per session):
* 1 Piano Session
* 1 String orchestra session
* 4 Chamber Orchestra Sessions
* Rehearsals and performance with YSO Chamber Orchestra
Seminars:
* Body Alignment
* Career Development
* Score Preparation
* Hagen, Built Up Dark (with composer)
Repertory:
* Beethoven, Egmont Overture
* Wagner, Siegfried Idyll
* Elgar, Serenade in E Minor
* Barber, Adagio for Strings
* Kodaly, Dances of Galanta
* Stravinsky, Concerto in E-flat (Dumbarton Oaks)
* Hagen, Built Up Dark
The Seasons Conductors Workshop will be held in conjunction with The Seasons Performance Hall Fall Festival, which runs from October 8 to October 16. The workshop for conductors will run concurrently with a workshop for composers led by Daron Aric Hagen, Gilda Lyons. Repertory will include standard repertory as well as works from the 20th and 21st centuries. One orchestra session will focus on Mr. Hagen’s Built Up Dark preceded by a seminar with the composer on this 10-minute work.
Each conducting fellow will be assigned a 4-minute work by one of the composing fellows to prepare, rehearse, and perform on the concluding concert with the Yakima Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Friday, October 15. Score and parts for these works will be available to the conductor well in advance of the workshop.
In addition to the two concurrent workshops, The Seasons Fall Festival will feature performers including The Finisterra Trio,The Seasons String Quartet, Gilda Lyons, Larry Alan Smith, Tom Harrell Quintet, Bill Mays, Martin Wind, Matt Wilson, Michael Wimberly, and more to be announced. Participants in the Conductors Workshop will have free access to performances and rehearsals during the Festival.
Housing will be provided (double occupancy). Yakima is located in south central Washington and is served by Horizon Airlines. There is also a shuttle bus service available several times between Yakima and the Seattle-Tacoma Airport.
Faculty Biographies:
Donald Thulean
Former Vice President, American Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Emeritus, Spokane Symphony Orchestra
Donald Thulean retired from the American Symphony Orchestra League (now League of American Orchestras) where he was vice president of Professional and Artistic Services. During his tenure with the league he led the development of the league’s American conductor training program which was subsequently named in his honor. From 1962 to 1984, he was music director and conductor of the Spokane Symphony Orchestra and currently holds the title of conductor emeritus. From 1966 to 1970 he served as associate conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. He also chairs the Advisory Committee for the School of Music at the University of Washington.
Brooke Creswell
Brooke Creswell recently retired as music
director of the Yakima Symphony Orchestra. He founded the orchestra as
the Yakima Chamber Orchestra in 1967 and has led it ever since as it
has evolved into a professional ensemble. In 1978 he was in the final
class of the American Symphony Orchestra League’s Conductor/Musicians
Workshop at Orkney Springs, VA under the leadership of Richard Johannes
Lert and Lawrence Leighton Smith. His guest conducting has taken him
to orchestras in the United States, Mexico, and Spain. Under his
guidance the orchestra twice won the ASCAP Award for Adventurous
Programming. He has written for Symphony and has participated in panels
at ASOL National Conferences.
Lawrence Golan
Lawrence Golan has recently been appointed music director of the Yakima Symphony Orchestra following an international search that began with 105 applicants from three continents. Just finishing a four-year tenure as Resident Conductor of the Pheonix Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Golan is also Music Director & Conductor of the Lamont Symphony Orchestra & Opera Theatre and the Portland Ballet Company. Mr.Golan has conducted in 23 U.S. states and 12 countries. Recent performances include concerts with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Chorus, the Colorado Music Festival, the Moravian Philharmonic in the Czech Republic, and a tour of Italy with the Orchestra Citta’ di Grosseto.
He is the Director of OrchestralStudies at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music where he teaches conducting. He also serves on the faculty of the Bard Conductors Institute and co-taught with Marin Also in a Conductors Guild Workshop at Denver University.He has won six consecutive Outstanding Merit Awards from the University of Denver, four ASCAP awards for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, and the Downbeat Magazine Award for“Best College Symphony Orchestra”.
A native of Chicago, Lawrence Golan holds degrees from the Indiana University School of Music (B.M. and M.M.) and the New England Conservatory of Music (D.M.A.). In addition, he studied at all of the major conducting festivals including Aspen and Tanglewood, where in 1999 he was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship. The long list ofdistinguished conductors with whom Mr. Golan studied includes Robert Spano, Jorma Panula, David Zinman, Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier, Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop, Murry Sidlin, and Harold Farberman.
Mr. Golan’s most recent recordings are with the Moravian Philharmonic on the Albany Records label.
Daron Aric Hagen
Daron Hagen (b. 1961, Milwaukee) established his nationalreputation in the early eighties with performances by the New York Philharmonic (Philharmonia, commissioned to celebrate the orchestra's 150th anniversary in 1992), and the Philadelphia Orchestra; international recognition and acclaim followed with the première of his first major opera, Shining Brow (1992). A steady stream of commissions from major orchestras,ensembles, and soloists over the past quarter century have cemented Hagen's reputation as one of America's most respected and sought-after composers.
Mr. Hagen is active also as a conductor, pianist, and stage director. He made his debut as a stage director with the Buffalo Philharmonic (2006), and has since staged three of his operas in major venues. He has released two discs as a collaborative pianist with baritone Paul Kreider on the Arsis label. The recording of his opera Bandanna under his baton (Albany Troy 849/50)was chosen by Fanfare Magazine as one of the ten notable releases of 2006 and chosen as an "ArkivMusic Recommendation". This season Naxos will release the complete recording of his opera Shining Brow (March)and his four piano trios (the Finisterra Trio; July).
Among the many organizations which have performed Hagen's works are: the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston Symphony, National Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, the orchestras of Milwaukee, New Mexico, Vermont, Oakland, Long Beach, Sacramento, and Denver; the Buffalo and Brooklyn Philharmonics, and the Tanglewood and Aspen music festivals.
Larry Alan Smith
Praised by The New York Times as “a young composer of great gifts,” Larry Alan Smith has developed an international reputation as a composer, performer, educator and arts executive. Many of today’s outstanding soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras have performed and commissioned works by Larry Alan Smith.
In addition to his primary life as a composer, Dr. Smith also maintains an active performing schedule. He has guest conducted numerous orchestras and chamber ensembles in England, Brazil, Italy, Poland, Croatia,Germany and the United States. Dr. Smith is also an experienced pianist who frequently performs his own works.
As an arts executive, he served as the President of the School of American Ballet from 1997-2000, Dean of the Hartt School at the University of Hartford from 1990-1997 and Dean of the School of Music at the North Carolina School of the Arts from 1986-1990. He is currently Professor of Composition at the Hartt School and Artistic and Executive Director of Wintergreen Performing Arts in Wintergreen, Virginia. From 2003-2007 he was the Artistic Director of American SongFest at the Woodstock Fringe in Woodstock, New York.
Larry Alan Smith is a Group XI Fellow of the Kellogg National Fellowship Program, a program of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation designed to expand the nation’s pool of capable leaders. He is also the President of Berg Associates, Inc., a Connecticut corporation providing consulting services to arts organizations and other businesses; and he serves as a senior advisorfor Arts Consulting Group, Inc., working out of the firm’s New York and Boston offices. He has been named a Distinguished Faculty Fellow of the University of Hartford’s Humanities Center for the 2009-10 academic year.
Dr. Smith is also a prolific poet who resides in Avon,Connecticut, with his wife, pianist Marguerita Oundjian Smith. They have four sons.
Robert Frankenberry
Robert Frankenberry leads a multi-faceted career as a tenor,pianist and conductor. At the piano, he is a member of the University of Pittsburgh’s Music on the Edge Ensemble and the new Pittsburgh-based IonSound Project. He has worked in various pianistic capacities for Carnegie Mellon University, Chatham College, the Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Symphony and the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh. He has filled faculty positions at several colleges and universities, most recently as instructor of voice and bassoon and director of orchestral studies at Mercyhurst College.
Mr. Frankenberry’s credits in music direction include productions of Amahl and the Night Visitors, Madrigals of Love and War, La Serva Padrona, The Old Maid and the Thief and La Clemenza di Tito for the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, the premiere of Daron Hagen’s Vera of Las Vegas for the Center for Contemporary Opera, and The Tales of Hoffmann for Mercyhurst College and the After Dinner Opera Company.
Tuition:
$800 ($500 on acceptance; balance on arrival)
Application Procedure:
Submit professional résumé and non-refundable $25 application fee to:
The Seasons Conductors Workshop
101 North Naches Avenue
Yakima, WA 98901
Application Deadline: June 30, 2010
Further information:
Brooke Creswell, Artistic Advisor
Yakima Symphony Orchestra
509-457-5354
509-307-2364