2007 CONDUCTORS INSTITUTE

The six-week summer program of The Conductors Institute offers a variety of study combinations that allow students to tailor their own programs. Students may enroll in the four-week program or one two-week segment of the Conducting Program for Fellows and Colleagues; in two-week programs, including the Discovery Program and the Composer-Conductor Program; and in the one-week program in Visual Score Study/Baton Placement and Body Movement Technique, which begins the summer (late June).

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Visual Score Study / Baton Placement

Body Movement Technique

June 26–30

 This program unites the study of Institute repertoire, using visual score study/baton placement techniques, with instruction in the Alexander Technique as it relates directly to the enhancement of performance skills and expression. Maestro Farberman teaches score study and baton placement. Alexander Farkas teaches the Alexander Technique.

Tuition: $300
(Free of charge if paired with the four-week Conducting Program; $150 if paired with the two-week Conducting Program)

 

The Institute's companion text and video are available from Warner Brothers: The Art of Conducting Technique: A New Perspective, by Harold Farberman

". . . a gap finally has been filled with a modern book on conducting that is original, enlightening, and helpful in a refreshing, affectionate, and disarming manner."      —Leon Botstein

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The Conducting Program for Fellows and Colleagues
 July 3 –28

 Fellows and Colleagues study with Maestro Farberman and guest conductors and composers in all Institute sessions. Fellows work with the Institute Orchestra five days a week in morning sessions; colleagues work with the Institute String Quintet in afternoon sessions four days a week and with the Institute Orchestra on Friday afternoons. Those who attend the full four-week program have more than three hours of podium time.
Though the four-week program offers optimum opportunity for the study of varied repertoire with the entire faculty, students may choose to attend a consecutive two-week unit. Participants may also include the one-week program (Prelude, June 26– 30) in Visual Score Study/Baton Placement and Body Movement Technique with their conducting program.

Repertoire
Institute repertoire in the summer of 2006 included works by Beethoven (Symphony No. 1), Brahms (Tragic Overture), Mahler (Symphony No. 1), Mendelssohn (Symphony No. 4), Mozart (Symphony No. 36), Shostakovich (Symphony No. 5), Strauss (Don Juan), and Tchaikovsky (Symphony No. 6) as well as works by guest composer David Del Tredici.

Tuition
Fellows
$1,750 for the complete four-week session
$ 900 for a two-week session

Colleagues
$1,350 for the complete four-week session
$ 700 for a two-week session

Note: Applicants may not be accepted in the category for which they apply; an applicant's status may also be adjusted after auditions at the Institute. Tuition is adjusted accordingly.

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The Discovery Program
July 10–21

 Directed by Eduardo Navega, the Discovery Program is designed for conductors with limited experience who desire to improve their skills. It runs concurrently with the Conducting Program. Participants work with a string quartet in afternoon sessions five days a week for two weeks and attend all morning and evening sessions of the Conducting Program. Repertoire in 2006 included Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Grieg's Holberg Suite, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 1.

Tuition: $600

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POSTLUDE
The Composer-Conductor Program
July 24– August 4 		 Composers who want to learn the fundamentals of conducting technique are encouraged to apply for this program. During the first week, composers attend all morning and evening sessions of the Institute and work in the afternoon on basic techniques, conducting a string quartet. (Repertoire: Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Grieg's Holberg Suite, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 1.) In week two, each composer is paired with a conductor in the graduate program who prepares the composer's work for performance. Composers and conductors meet each morning with the Composers' Chamber Ensemble (1111—1110—tmp+1—pf—str 1.1.1.1.1.). Composers are encouraged to conduct their works in rehearsals and in the final performance.

Composers should submit short samples of their work with the application. Composers accepted to the program should bring three scores and parts for a 10- to 15-minute work suitable to the above instrumentation.

Tuition: $700

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