The third annual Seasons Conductors Workshop will take place in Yakima, WA October 12–16, 2011 as part of The Seasons Fall Music Festival. Faculty include Donald Thulean, Conductor Emeritus of The Spokane Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Golan, Music Director of the Yakima Symphony and Director of Orchestral and Opera Programs at The University of Denver, and Brooke Creswell, Retired Music Director of the Yakima Symphony Orchestra. Artistic Director for the Festival is composer, Daron Aric Hagen. Ensembles in Residence will be the Finisterra Piano Trio and The Yakima Symphony Chamber Orchestra.
Eight conductors will be selected to participate in the workshop which runs concurrently with The Seasons Composers Seminar. Each conductor will have 15 – 20 minutes of podium time for one piano session and four orchestra sessions. Additionally each conductor will be assigned a work written for the Festival by a composition fellow to rehearsed and performed at the closing concert. The performances will be professionally videoed for the use of the conductors and composers. Conducting fellows should plan to arrive by the evening of October 11 and depart October 17.
Repertory: Bartók, Divertimento for Strings
Hagen, Piano Concerto
Mahler, Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 4
Mozart, Overture to the Magic Flute
Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor
Mahler, Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Verdi, La Traviata, Prelude to Act III
Zwilich, Concerto Grosso
Seminars will include score and parts preparation (for both conductors and composers), analysis, public and professional skills for career building.
Tuition is $1,000 ($400 on acceptance, balance due by the first meeting of the workshop). Conductors receiving invitations to participate will reserve their poHousing in private homes will be available.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE FOR CONDUCTORS
Send résumé and DVD with a $25 non-refundable deposit to
The Seasons Conductors Workshop
101 North Naches Avenue
Yakima, WA 98901
Deadline for applications is May 15, 2011