P CONDUCTORS/COMPOSERS WORKSHOP A professional education program O

H There are so few opportunities for conductors to hone their skills, let alone acquire the added skills needed to The Conductors/Composers champion new music. Because conductors Workshop ispresented KS are the stewards of our symphonic in partnership with heritage, investment in their professional R The Conductors Guild. development is essential. What better place than at the Cabrillo Festival to provide 2015 CONDUCTING O The Workshop is supported in part by workshops which serve conductors who SCHOLARSHIP PARTICIPANTS are interested in performing contemporary The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Alexander Humala, Minsk Belarus

W music at the highest level and to engage and an Anonymous Donor. Hsuan-Yu Lee, Denton TX emerging composers in the process? Andres Lopera, Portland OR The Composer’s Workshop is generously S Stefano Sarzani, Cincinnati OH wenty-one conductors and three young supported by Margaret Dorfman. Deanna Tham, Cleveland Heights OH composers have been selected to R Lidiya Yankovskaya, Brooklyn NY participate in this year’s workshops, Scholarship support has been provided Caleb Young, Bloomington IN E T which are produced in collaboration with the by the Bruno Walter Memorial Conductors Guild, a music service organization Foundation 2015 COMPOSERS devoted exclusively to the advancement of the . Brendan Faegre, den Haag Netherlands art of conducting and to serving the artistic and O S Takuma Itoh, Honolulu HI professional needs of conductors throughout Emily Praetorius, New York NY

P the world. 2015 CONDUCTORS WORKSHOP The Conductors/Composers Training Workshop CONDUCTING FACULTY AUDITORS M at the Cabrillo Festival takes place August 1-5 JAMES ROSS Paola Avila, Bogota Colombia this season at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. James E. Ross serves O Lucik Aprahamian, Glendale CA Participating conductors and composers as conducting faculty at Dami Baek, Denton TX experience five full days of intensive training C The Juilliard School and Brad Cawyer, Rowlett TX

/ with some of the world’s most respected as Director of Orchestral Julie Desbordes, New York NY contemporary music professionals. Their Activities and Associate

S Nadege Foofat, Ann Arbor MI activities include a schedule of seminars Professor of Conducting at David Glover, Cary NC and critiqued conducting sessions––first the University of Maryland. R with quintet and piano, then with chamber He holds degrees from Harvard University, Lina Marcela Gonzalez Granados, Brighton MA orchestra, and finally podium time with the the Curtis Institute, and Berlin Akademie der O full Cabrillo Festival Orchestra. Under the Kunst; his teachers included Kurt Masur, Seiji Paul Grobey, Ithaca NY Lance Inouye, Portland OR T guidance of faculty composer Huang Ruo, Ozawa, and . He has served the participating composers work with the as assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Paul Kim, Norfolk VA

C Festival’s composers-in-residence, and with Orchestra and Les Arts Florissants, and has Tiffany Lu, Tampa FL the conductors on subjects including modern guest conducted around the world, including Andrew Lyon, Indianapolis IN U score analysis and practical guides for the at the , the Glyndebourne Stephen Salem, Liverpool NY rehearsal, interpretation and performance of Festival, and the National Symphony Orchestra. Shira Samuels-Shragg, Northridge CA D contemporary works. The project culminates He is a distinguished leader of youth orchestras, Christopher Whittaker, New York NY with an inspirational concert titled In the including the National Youth Orchestra of Spain, N Works, on Wednesday, August 5 at the the Mendelssohn Conservatory Orchestra of SPECIAL THANKS TO: Civic Auditorium. In a performance that Leipzig, and the Orchestra of Acarigua-Araure Amanda Burton Winger, O is free and open to the public, the Cabrillo in Venezuela, part of the famed “El Sistema.” Executive Director, Conductors Guild He also holds the position of Orchestra Director C Festival Orchestra is led by seven conductors Erik Finley, Cabrillo Festival performing short symphonic works by each for Carnegie Hall’s newly formed National Youth Orchestra Manager Orchestra of the United States of America. .

of the composers: Brendan Faegre, Takuma Ella Fredrickson, Cabrillo Itoh Emily Praetorius Festival Music Librarian , and . COMPOSING FACULTY Members of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra The Conductors Guild HUANG RUO was founded in 1975 Michael Sheppard, Piano Accompanist as a subsidiary of the the League of American (See bio on page 21) Orchestras; the Guild became independent in ADDITIONAL THANKS TO: 1985 and has established itself as a collective Deirdre Chadwick, voice for conductors’ interests throughout the Executive Director, , BMI world. Cia Toscanini, Vice President of Concert Music, ASCAP

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