International masterclass for conducting with Frank Ticheli, USA; Miguel Etchegoncelay, F and the Military Band of Upper Austria

Location: Mid Europe 2018 8970 Schladming, Austria

Date: Monday, July 9, 2018 – Friday, July 13, 2018

Description: The International masterclass for conducting takes place from July 9 – 13, 2018 as part of Mid Europe 2018. A limited number of active participants will conduct and discuss the repertoire listed below and rehearse them with a professional wind band. The masterclass will be held in English. If you would like to observe, you have the option to enroll as a passive participant. Passive participants may attend the entire workshop and contribute in discussions. Active participants are expected to study all works from the repertoire list below, and will conduct during orchestra rehearsals and perform a selected work/movement on stage with the Military Band of Upper Austria on Friday 13, 2018.

Frank Ticheli und Miguel Etchegoncelay will confirm your participation as active participants based upon your musical vita. Please copy your vita into the application form and send it to: [email protected]

Masterclass ensemble: Military Band of Upper Austria

Masterclass Repertoire:

Grad 4 Paul Dukas / Robert Longfield Fanfare pour préceder Barnhouse Company Grad 2 Miguel Etchegoncelay Petite Suite Alsacienne Star Music Publishing Grad 3 Eric Satie / Johann de Meij Ratatouille Satirique Amstel Music Grad 4 Camille Saint Saens / Orient et Occident, op.25 Barnhouse Company Hauswirth-Lange) Grad 3 Frank Ticheli Amazing Grace Manhatten Beach Music Grad 4 Frank Ticheli San Antonio Dances Manhatten Beach Music Grad 3 Frank Ticheli Simple Gifts Manhatten Beach Music Grad 3 Frank Ticheli Cajun Folk Songs Manhatten Beach Music

Masterclass instructor: Miguel Etchegoncelay Miguel Etchegoncelay was born in Porteña, Province of Cordoba, Argentina. He studied trumpet, composition and conducting at Cordoba’s Conservatory of Music and Cordoba’s National University, Argentina, at the European Institute for Band Studies (ISEB) in Trento, Italy, and at the Zurich Conservatory of Music, in Switzerland. Among his teachers were Carlos Giraudo, Vicente Moncho, Franco Cesarini, Felix Hauswirth and Jan Cober. He took part in wind conducting seminars of renowned conductors such as Eugene Corporon and Tim Reynish. He appears regularly as guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator in France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia and Spain. During the seasons 2009 and 2010 he appeared as a guest conductor of France’s National Youth Wind Orchestra. Currently he is principal conductor of the Musikverein Egringen (Germany), the “Stadtharmonie Laufen” (Switzerland), the “Orchestre d’Harmonie Municipal de Valdoie” (France) and of the internationally renowned professional brass ensemble “Grand Ensemble de Cuivres d’Alsace” (France). In February 2005, he was appointed teacher at the Strasbourg Conservatory of Music (France) where he is in charge of wind conducting studies and of its wind orchestra. He lives in Hagenthal le bas, France, where he conducts the “Musique Union de Hegenheim” as well as its music school.

Masterclass instructor: Frank Ticheli

Ticheli was born in Monroe, Louisiana. He graduated from L.V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas and earned a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Southern Methodist University, where he studied with Donald Erb and Jack Waldenmaier. He went on to receive his master's and doctoral degrees in composition from the , where he studied with William Albright, , George Wilson, and .

Subsequently, Ticheli was an Assistant Professor of Music at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. There, he served on the board of directors of the Texas Composers Forum and was a member of the advisory committee for the 's "Music of the Americas" project. From 1991 to 1998, Ticheli was composer-in-residence with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in Orange County, California. Since 1991, he has been a Professor of Composition at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music. In 2011, he endowed the "Frank Ticheli Composition Scholarship" to be awarded each year to an incoming graduate student in composition.

Recent works include The Shore (Symphony No. 3) a 35-minute work for chorus and orchestra, with its East Coast premiere given by New York Choral Society and Orchestra at New York's Carnegie Hall; three new concertos (for flute, clarinet, and alto saxophone); and Songs of Love and Life, for soprano soloist and 18 players, composed for conductor, Allan McMurray.

Ticheli has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Arts and Letters Award, Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, and Charles Ives Scholarship, all from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,[2] the National Band Association/Revelli Memorial Prize, the A. Austin Harding Award, the Distinguished Service to Music Medal, and First Prize in the Texas Sesquicentennial Orchestral Composition Competition, the Britten-on-the-Bay Choral Composition Contest, and the Virginia CBDNA Symposium for New Band Music. In addition to these awards, Ticheli has been named a national honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha and Kappa Kappa Psi.

Grants and commissions for Ticheli's works have come from Chamber Music America, the American Music Center, Pacific Symphony, Pacific Chorale, Worldwide Concurrent Premieres, Inc., Prince George's Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Symphony, City of San Antonio, Stephen F. Austin State University, University of Michigan, Trinity University, and the Indiana Bandmasters Association, and many others. His work, Angels in the Architecture, for with soprano soloist, was commissioned by Kingsway International and received its premiere performance in July 2008 by a massed band of young musicians from Australia and the U.S. at the Sydney Opera House.

Schedule: Mo, July 09, 2018 10:15 – 12:15pm Theory, congress Schladming 2nd floor 2pm – 5pm Theory, congress Schladming 2nd floor Tue, July 10, 2018 9am – 12pm Orchestra rehearsal, congress Schladming 2nd floor 4pm – 5pm Orchestra rehearsal, congress Schladming 2nd floor 6pm opening ceremony We, July 11, 2018 8:30am – 12pm Orchestra rehearsal, congress Schladming 2nd floor 4pm – 6pm Orchestra rehearsal, congress Schladming 2nd floor Thu, July 12, 2018 9am – 11:30am Orchestra rehearsal, congress Schladming 2nd floor 2:30pm – 4pm Orchestra rehearsal, congress Schladming 2nd floor Fr, July 13, 2018 9:30am– 11:00 Orchestra rehearsal, congress Schladming 2nd floor 11:30 – 12:00pm dress rehearsal 12pm – 1pm concert

Fees: ACTIVE participation advance sale until June 30, 2018 € 300,- starting July, 1, 2018 € 350,- includes full registration for Mid Europe 2018 and active participation in the conducting masterclass

PASSIVE participation advance sale until June 30, 2018 € 180,- starting July 1, 2018 € 230,- includes full registration for Mid Europe 2018 and passive participation in the conducting masterclass

Cancellation: Your application will be valid with your payment of the application fee. Only cancellations due to medical reasons (with submission of a note from your medical doctor) will be allowed after the application and payment has been received. In this case 50% of your application fee will be reimbursed.

Application: please send the excel application form to: Mid Europe Office, Lena Reiter – [email protected]