The Conductors Institute
Harold Farberman, Founder and Artistic DirectorThe Conductors Institute, in its fourteenth year at Bard College—and now
a program of The Bard College Conservatory of Music—continues its mission to:
- Promote technical clarity and precision in baton movement in a positive working atmosphere that enables conductors at every level to fulfill their musical capabilities
- Disarm the competitive learning process so that conductors assist and support one another
- Encourage American conductors to be advocates of American composers
2013 Conductors Institute Summer Programs
June 24 – August 2, 2013
Graduate Conducting Program
bard.edu/conservatory/gcp/
The program consists of:
- core seminars and podium time
- music history
- ear training, score reading, and composition
- foreign language study
- diction
- studio instruction
- thesis concert
Note: Orchestral conducting students are expected to participate in The Conductors Institute in the first and third summers. The second summer is optional. The cost of two summer institutes is included in the tuition of the M.M. program.
