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Observe conductors training during USC’s Conductors Institute of South Carolina

The esteemed Conductors Institute of South Carolina, in its 31st year, is on the must-do list for both aspiring and experienced conductors. Students of the summer institute come to the University of South Carolina from around the U.S. and abroad to receive instruction from eminent conductors and composers with vast experience in the commercial, academic and professional worlds of music.

You are invited to observe as up-and-coming conductors get first-class training at USC’s Conductors Institute of South Carolina. You can get a first-hand view of the skills and complexities of effective conducting on Monday through Saturdayduring the Institute – June 6through 18. You can observe the daily training at the Koger Center for the Arts. Open to the public, free of charge to observe.

Participants of the annual institute, directed by Dr. Donald Portnoy, have an exceptional opportunity to work directly with composers whose works have been commissioned and performed by many of the major American and European orchestras and international ensembles.

Among this summer’s distinguished guest faculty are Maurice Peress, former assistant conductor to the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein; and Paul Vermel, the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Koussevitsky Memorial Award for the outstanding conductor at Tanglewood. Also on the faculty are esteemed conductors and composers including Victoria Bond (composer/conductor), Samuel Jones (composer), Avner Dorman (composer), Peter Jaffe (conductor) Diane Wittry (conductor) and Neil Casey (conductor).

Observe conductor training SCHEDULE

June 6–18, Monday through Saturday
9:00 a.m. to noon, and 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

June 6–9 String Orchestra Repertoire (session I)
Tchaikovsky – Serenade
Janácek – Idyll
Frank Bridge – Suite for String Orchestra
Avner Dorman – Concerto Grosso

June 10–14 Chamber Orchestra Repertoire (session II)
Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 4 in A Major, op. 90 (Italian)
Wagner – Siegfried Idyll
Rossini – Overture to The Barber of Seville
Victoria Bond – Bridges

June 15–18 Symphony Orchestra Repertoire (session III)
Beethoven – Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, op. 60
Weber – Overture to Der Freischutz
Johann Strauss, Jr. – Overture to Die Fledermaus
Samuel Jones – Janus

Learn more about the Conductors Institute of South Carolina http://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/music/community/summer_programs/conductors_institute/index.php

For more information, contact Charlene Rackley: 803-777-7500 or [email protected].