     
2009 NYC Conducting Workshop
Dates: March 8-14, 2009
Location: New York City (Manhattan)
Repertoire: J. S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring
(original instrumentation)
Igor Stravinsky Concerto in Eb
("Dumbarton Oaks")
Description: This one-week intensive
course will include score study sessions,
baton technique classes, body movement
classes, score previews, video-taped
conducting sessions with orchestra, video
review sessions, individual coaching, and a
final concert for participants.
Additionally, this year's course includes a
ballet component; participants will watch
ballet rehearsals and each participant will
have the option to conduct a selection of
the repertoire (a movement or large section)
with live ballet dancers.
Tuition:
$1,100 US (does not include travel or
accommodations)
Application Deadline: December 19, 2008
About KIRK
TREVOR:
Internationally known conductor and teacher
Kirk Trevor has been Music Director of the
Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra since 1988
and the Missouri Symphony since 2000. A
regular guest conductor in the world’s
concert halls, he has also served as Music
Director of the Knoxville Symphony
Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra,
and the Martinu Philharmonic (Czech
Republic). In 1997 Maestro Trevor was
recognized by the Indiana House of
Representatives for his outstanding
contributions to the arts. In January 2003
he made his London debut with the London
Symphony Orchestra returning to conduct them
in June. As a guest conductor Maestro Trevor
has appeared with over forty orchestras in
over a dozen countries. Recent conducting
appearances have seen him on the podiums of
the Dayton Philharmonic, the Muncie
Symphony, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the
Wroclaw Philharmonic, the Kosice
Philharmonic, the Slovak Sinfonietta, the
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel
Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of USP Sao
Paulo, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the
Estonian National Symphony, the Virginia
Symphony, the Savannah Symphony, the Sofia
Philharmonic, and the Bern Chamber
Orchestra. In 2000, Maestro Trevor forged a
new relationship with the famed Slovak Radio
Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, beginning
a new series of recordings of American music
for a consortium of independent record
companies, and he acted as the orchestra’s
Principal Guest Conductor until 2007.
Born and
educated in England, Maestro Trevor studied
at London’s Guildhall School of Music where
he graduated cum laude in cello
performance and conducting. He went on to
pursue cello studies in France with Paul
Tortelier under a British Council
Scholarship and came to the U.S. on a
Fulbright Exchange Grant. In the U.S. he
served as Assistant Conductor at the North
Carolina School of the Arts, Associate
Conductor of the Charlotte Symphony, and in
1982 the Exxon Arts Endowment Conductor with
the Dallas Symphony. He was subsequently
named its Resident Conductor through the
1987-1988 season. In 1990 Maestro Trevor
was recognized as one of America’s
outstanding young conductors, winning the
American Symphony Orchestra League’s Leonard
Bernstein Conducting Competition.
Maestro Trevor is becoming widely recognized
as one of the leading teachers of conducting
in the world. He has been a master teacher
for the American Symphony Orchestra League,
as well as the Conductor’s Guild. In 1991
he co-founded the International Workshop for
Conductors in the Czech Republic and has
been its Artistic Director each summer. He
is a frequent visiting professor at
Northwestern University and teaches annual
master classes in Switzerland at the Zurich
and Basel Conservatories.
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