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
Ingrid Anderson, oboe
Ensemble:
String Quintet plus Piano
Faculty:
Devin Patrick Hughes, Conductor
John Clay Allen, Composer
Jeffrey Nytch, Professor of Composition & Entrepreneurship, CU Boulder
Molly Kittle, Alexander Technique Specialist
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 (4-6 conductors selected)
45 minutes of podium time guaranteed
Send resume & 2-3 conducting videos with application
Deadline of June 1, 2025, conductors will be notified by June 2
FREE for observers and auditors, thanks to the generous support of the T Gordon Parks Trust & Colorado Music Institute
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.
