The Conductors Institute
Overview
Harold Farberman, Founder and Artistic Director
The Conductors Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music offers a variety of study combinations that allow students to tailor their own programs. The Conductors Institute, in its third decade and eighth year at Bard College, has throughout its history continued 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:
2010 Conductors Institute Programs
June 21—July 30, 2010
- Visual Score Study/Baton Placement and Body Movement Technique (June 21–25)
- Discovery Program (July 5–16)
- Composer-Conductor Program (July 19– July 30)
- Conducting Program for Fellows and Colleagues (June 28 – July 23, 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 and music director of the Collegiate Chorale and Concert Chorale of New York; and Leon Botstein, president of Bard College and music director of the American Symphony Orchestra and 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.
