SPRING 2019 Newsletter INAUGURAL MONTEUX NYC WINTER WORKSHOP & Report by Trustee and Alumna, CONCERTS A HUGE SUCCESS! NYC-based Flutist, Allison Kiger. After 75 years of success in Hancock, Maine, the Monteux School and Music Festival remains a mystery to many in the musical community who have never attended the School. To help the School fulfill its mission of preparing conductors and musicians for an orchestral career and to continue to attract the best applicants, audiences and donors, Allison developed the first Winter Workshop and Concerts which took place in Lincoln Center, New York City, from January 2-5, 2019. WORKSHOP GOALS: among the orchestral music community and network with musicians and teachers who can • Showcase Music Director Michael Jinbo as a help with recruiting performing conductor with a fully professional orchestra and also as a conducting teacher in a • Provide a professional performance opportunity major city and exposure for workshop conductors • Fulfill the mission of the School to train • Provide workshop conductors with a fully conductors and orchestra musicians professional concert video for future applications • Increase awareness of the Monteux School • Provide a convenient opportunity for alumni to gather and network in a major city RESULTS: Michael Jinbo’s teaching and coaching was very effective with the conductor students and his knowledge, clarity, authenticity and humor were well-appreciated. All of the conductors made noticeable improvement and seemed truly humbled, appreciative and musically challenged by the experience. Michael was also Michael Jinbo with student conductors at the Monteux Winter Workshop, NYC, January, 2019 Continued on Page 7 FROM MARC THAYER ALUMNI UPDATE Executive Director From Monteux Alumnus, David A. Rahbee, 1994-2001, conducting associate 2014-2016, Senior Artist in Residence, University of I’m very excited to get back to Hancock and see our Monteux Friends and Family soon again. Washington School of Music in Seattle, Director of Orchestral Activities We have lots of exciting things planned for you and the students. Here’s just a taste of what to expect. Please see our advertisement in Diane Wittry We’re also looking forward to I recently conducted the Seattle orchestral.com). ”The Daniels”, as me know! There’s a good chance it the Downeast Magazine in May, will be with welcoming the following musicians Symphony along side their outgoing many call it, is a unique orchestral is already on our “to examine” list, called EXPLORE THE DOWNEAST us during the and coaches throughout the summer music director and fellow Monteux music finder tool and an invaluable which is huge…but we’d still be glad PASSAGE, the new name for our week of July who will present Masterclasses for Alum Ludovic Morlot, leading resource for orchestral librarians, to know. region. 8. Diane is the orchestral musicians: contemporary works by Seth Krimsky libraries, planners, musicologists, currently the Music Director and Páll Ragnar Pálsson with my conductors, and artistic directors. I have recently been named a of the Allentown Symphony, June 21-23, Nathan Cole, violin, UW colleague cello soloist Saeunn What makes our work unique is semi-finalist in three different Special Congratulations to our PA, and the Garden State Los Angeles Philharmonic Thorsteinsdottir. Earlier this year we that all works that we list have been categories of The American Prize. Conducting Associate, Tiffany Lu, Philharmonic, NJ. She’s also also shared the podium at Benaroya examined page by page. Publisher For the 4th consecutive year, who has just completed her DMA the author of ‘Beyond the July 9-11, Felicia Foland, bassoon, Hall for the Seattle Symphony/UW catalogs and score prefaces are Orchestral Programming (2016- at the University of Maryland. We Baton’, a look at the life of an St. Louis Symphony Symphony Side-by-Side concert with quite often inaccurate, and these 17 UW Symphony season); for the are excited to have Tiffany back orchestral conductor both on music by Haydn and Bernstein. inaccuracies are often perpetuated 2nd consecutive year in Orchestral again this summer and we’ll have and off the podium. She’ll be July 16-18, Brant through other lists or online services. Performance (University of to get used to saying Dr. Lu! talking with our conducting Taylor, cello, Upcoming concerts include UW This is why we (David Daniels, David Washington Symphony Orchestra), students about how the Chicago Symphony Symphony with Van Cliburn Gold- Oertel and myself) still stick to the for the first time, orchestral Medal winner Yekwon Sunwoo in original recipe: look at every page of conducting. Also I recently had an Christopher Guzman, piano, Penn position of Music Director has Orchestra Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1, the score from a conductor’s point article published in the fall 2018 State University, will perform the evolved in the 21st Century, two concerts at the Arutiunian Wind of view, and present the necessary (Volume 39, No.1) music journal Gershwin Piano Concerto with the what is expected of a Music July 19-21, Festival in Armenia, and a concert information for the user: title, exact Sonus: Karl Goldmark and Gustav Monteux Festival Orchestra on Director outside of rehearsals Tony Prisk, trumpet, of Haydn & Philip Glass with the instrumentation, movements and Mahler: Connections and Influences. Sunday, July 7, at 5 PM. and concerts, and challenges Philadelphia faced by women conductors Orchestra Chattanooga Symphony. their durations, date of composition in the US. and revision, publisher, etc. This is of Please visit my newly revamped During the week Alongside my duties as Director of course a time consuming process. website at www.davidrahbee.com of June 24 we will Orchestral Activities at the University Works for string orchestra take less welcome Henry Now is the perfect time to make a gift to the Monteux Student of Washington and various guest time than larger works. The goal? To And please check out the trailer for Photo: Layne Dixon Layne Photo: Fogel, former Scholarship Fund for 2019. Right now we are making important conducting apearances, I am also have the most accurate and useful my creation inspired by Sir Simon Executive Director decisions about which of our students will receive scholarship co-editor of Daniels’ Orchestra listings of the broadest range of Rattle: The Haydn experience of the Chicago Symphony help to come this summer and your gifts make it possible for the Music, 6th edition (slated for release orchestral music performed and https://www.youtube.com/ Orchestra, General Manager of the best musicians to come from all over the US and other countries. in 2022), and Daniels’ Orchestral recorded. If you use Daniels and watch?v=7ZAlyTjw0SM&t=1326s New York Philharmonic, President This year we will welcome students from Mexico, Canada, China Music Online (www.daniels- think we should include a piece, let of the League of American and the Kurdish Region of northern Iraq. Orchestras, and Dean of the School of Fine Arts at Roosevelt Please send your gift via PayPal or Credit Card from our website, University. Henry will be meeting monteuxschool.org, by clicking on the yellow tab in the lower right with the conducting students and corner of the homepage. Or you can send a check to: The Monteux talking about the audition process School, Box 457, Hancock, ME 04640 for orchestras, how to interview for Music Director positions Your help is greatly appreciated and makes a real difference. and the Do’s and Don’ts of guest 100% of your gift goes to the students and helps to cover tuition and housing. Please call if you have any questions, 207-812-6260. conducting. – 2 – – 3 – A NOTE FROM FROM RON SCHWIZER Archivist FROM PHIL DEVENISH CONDUCTOR & President, Board of Trustees Last fall, following our offer to There are the 20+ years (1995 PERCUSSIONIST, catalog the Pierre Monteux archives, to date) of the School’s concert Dear Monteux Friends, most of which material came to the recordings and videos. Phil Standel KYLE RITENAUER Foundation from a year 2000 gift (a former Trustee and Treasurer) I write from Pigeon Bay, New Zealand—an hour’s drive Five years ago, we were able to accommodate only from Nancie Monteux Barendse, the made a huge start on these in a from and only four days since the terrible shootings nineteen musicians ourselves, and housing the Kyle is currently a Board appointed me as Archivist, spreadsheet around 2012, and I in the Christchurch mosques. Paradise has been remaining 43 made up by far the largest item in our Graduate Student at and Doug as Curator of the nascent want to work on a format for putting Lost and cannot be regained. After nineteen winter annual budget. Now, with the addition of Winterhaven, the Juilliard School collection. We are still working on a complete listing of pieces and escapes here from Maine, we have a sense for how the Pierre Monteux home, Devenish Hall, Tamarack and plays frequently entering data and photos from conductors into the database as Aotearoa/New Zealand’s oceanic protection both has Place, and other, smaller renovations, we have turned with the Malaysia the Foundation's collection of well. I do believe that uploading and has not prepared this small, island nation for its the tables in our favor, housing 48 on our own and Philharmonic in recordings. These include recordings sound and video media will also struggles ahead in our ‘globalized’ world. We have leaving only fourteen to the increasingly expensive Kuala-Lampur. gifted by: be possible, but perhaps to a more long felt the many similarities between our adoptive rental market. This has resulted not only in greater limited extent. rural New Zealand and our own rural Maine. financial security for the School, but also more funds - Nancie: We have called this for our primary, musical mission, and especially for collection "Nancie Monteux I will be attending the The museum software has online We head home in early May, and how fortunate we increased scholarships for our musicians.