The Conductors Institute
Overview
Harold Farberman, Founder and Artistic Director
The 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
The Conductors Institute offers the following programs:
2012 Conductors Institute Programs
June 25—August 3, 2012
- Visual Score Study/Baton Placement and Body Movement Technique
(June 25–29) - Discovery Program (July 9–20)
- Composer-Conductor Program (July 23 – August 3)
- Conducting Program for Fellows and Colleagues
(July 2–27, available as a two-week session or as a full four-week session.)
Graduate Conducting Program (Master of Music)
The Program
- Core Seminars and Podium Time
- Music History
- Ear Training, Score Reading, and Composition
- Foreign Language Study
- Diction
- Studio Instruction
- Thesis Concert
The Directors
Harold Farberman, founder and director of the Conductors Institute at Bard; James Bagwell, director of Bard's undergraduate Music Program, music director of the Collegiate Chorale, and principal guest conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra; and Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, and conductor laureate of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
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 MM program.
Website: http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/gcp/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 MM program.
