AUSTIN / ROUND ROCK WORKSHOP (TEXAS, USA)

WHERE:

Round Rock, TX, 10 miles (16 km) north of Austin, TX, USA

The Austin skyline

Round Rock's namesake,
the "round rock."

WHEN:

FACULTY:

Maestro Peter Bay is the Music Director of the Austin Symphony and the Britt Festival (Jacksonville, OR). He has previously been Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic, the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the Breckenridge Music Festival, and has held conducting posts with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and he has been guest conductor for numerous other orchestras around the United States. In 1980, Maestro Bay won the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Young Conductors Competition, and in 1987 he won the the Leopold Stokowski Competition sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra.

REPERTOIRE:

• Strauss: Wind Serenade in Eb, Op. 7
• Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Op. 48
• Schubert: "Unfinished" Symphony No. 8
• Glinka: Russlan & Ludmilla Overture

ENSEMBLE:

The Round Rock Symphony is a professional per-service orchestra serving the greater Round Rock area (population 450,000), which is 10 miles north of Austin. The orchestra consists of young professionals, graduate students in music, and freelance professionals. In 2010-11 the orchestra entered it's 3rd season under the direction of Maestro Silas Huff.

PODIUM TIME:

FEES:

TUITION:
$990 / participant
$450 / auditor

ACCOMMODATIONS:
$640 - 8 nights private room
$320 - 8 nights shared room

REGISTRATION DEPOSIT:
$400
Deadline: April 1st, 2012

ABOUT:

This course focuses on interpretation, historical perspective, and rehearsal technique, combined with body movement classes. The course includes:

• 2 baton technique/conducting classes
• 2 score study sessions/score previews
• 4 video-taped conducting sessions (10+ minutes each)
• 4 video reviews
• 1 "Yoga for Conductors" Class
• 1 "Ballet for Conductors" (Port de bras) class
• 1 Tai Chi class
• 1 Alexander Technique group lesson

Maestro Bay instructs a student

Students study Tai Chi

HOTEL:

Wingate by Wyndham, 1209 North I.H. 35, Round Rock, TX 78664
http://www.wingateroundrock.com/

APPLICATION DEADLINE:

TO APPLY:

ONLINE APPLICATION: Please click here.

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!