Brahms - Beethoven - Allen

Conducting Lab – June 21st

Calling all conductors! Enhance your skills at this intensive workshop designed for high school orchestra directors, conducting students, and professional conductors. Participants will refine techniques in musical expression, score study, baton work, and rehearsal techniques while working with a professional ensemble.

Repertoire:

  • Brahms Symphony No. 2

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"

  • John Clay Allen: Sky Psalms Concerto for Oboe and Strings

Ensemble:

  • String Quintet plus Piano

Faculty:

WHEN: Saturday, June 21, 2025, 9AM-6PM, lunch provided
WHERE: Colorado Music Institute
WHAT: Two conducting sessions, movement session, music entrepreneurship session, & video review included

Participation Details:

  • $25 application fee | $150 participation fee

  • 45 minutes of podium time guaranteed

  • Send resume & 2-3 conducting videos with application

  • Apply ASAP, one spot remaining

  • FREE for observers and auditors, thanks to the generous support of the T Gordon Parks Trust & Colorado Music Institute

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  • In Tune with Yourself - Alexander Technique for embodied musicianship and musical flow with Molly Kittle - Conducting is a whole-body art. This workshop offers practical tools from the Alexander Technique to support easeful movement, refined gestures, and integrated coordination. Develop a more fluid, responsive presence that deepens your connection—with yourself, the music, and the orchestra.

Conducting Labs

Our Conducting Labs are open to conductors who want to work on the following aspects of their art:

  • expressing the music & communication

  • rehearsal technique & flow

  • score study

  • baton technique

  • movement

  • music entrepreneurship

These workshops are for the following conductors:

  • students in graduate school

  • orchestra directors of high school

  • working conductors who want to sharpen their orchestral skills within a supportive environment

The Symphony of the Rockies conducting labs are made possible by a generous grant from the T Gordon Parks Trust, and Colorado Music Institute.

The labs have been led by renowned conducting professors and professionals working in the field, including Andrés Felipe Jaime, Scott O’Neil, Lawrence Golan, Gary Lewis, and Devin Patrick Hughes.

Thank you to our generous education sponsors for making the Conducting Labs possible!