BOULDER CONDUCTING WORKSHOP (COLORADO, USA)

WHERE:

Boulder, CO, USA - 15 miles (24km) northwest of Denver.

WHEN:

FACULTY:

Internationally known conductor, recording artist, and educator Maestro Kirk Trevor is a regular guest conductor in the world’s most prestigious concert halls. He has been Music Director of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra since 1988, and the Missouri Symphony since 2000, and was Music Director of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra from 1985 until 2003. In 2000 Maestro Trevor forged a new relationship with the famed Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, recording American music for a consortium of independent record companies, and in 2006 Maestro Trevor began a new collaboration with Naxos Records. With almost 80 releases since 1997, this makes Kirk Trevor one of the world’s most recorded conductors within the past decade. As a guest conductor Maestro Trevor has appeared with over 40 orchestras in twelve countries. Recent appearances have included the Orchestra Sinfonica Sao Paolo, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Estonian National Symphony, the Warsaw Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon, the Virginia Symphony, the Savannah Symphony, the Sofia Philharmonic, and the Bern Chamber Orchestra. In 2003 he made his London Symphony Orchestra debut, and in 2007 his Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Chamber Orchestra.

Maestro Trevor has been widely recognized as one of the leading conducting teachers in the world. He has been Director of Orchestras at both the University of Tennessee - Knoxville and Ball State University, and has been a master teacher for the American Symphony Orchestra League as well as the Conductor’s Guild. In 1991 Maestro Trevor co-founded the International Workshop for Conductors (now International Conducting Institute) held in the Czech Republic each summer.

ENSEMBLE:

The Boulder Chamber Orchestra was established in 2004, and has since stood as Boulder’s premier chamber orchestra. Since its formation, the orchestra has played to sold-out audiences, and featured some of the area’s most talented musicians at our performances. BCO is directed by Maestro Bahman Saless.

REPERTOIRE:

• Mozart: Overture Abduction from the Seraglio
• Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

PODIUM TIME:

FEES:

$990 / participant
$450 / auditor

ABOUT:

• 2 baton technique/conducting classes
• 2 score study sessions/score previews
• 4 video-taped conducting sessions (10+ minutes each)
• 4 video reviews
• 1 "Alexander Technique" Class

HOTEL:

APPLICATION DEADLINE:

TO APPLY:

PAPER APPLICATION: Please mail a C.V. and demo DVD to:

International Conductors Institute
4641 10th Street
Boulder, CO 80304
U.S.A.

Please indicate in your email which workshop(s) you are applying for. One application may apply for all workshops.

ONLINE REGISTRATION: REGISTER HERE!