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Subject :FROM MUSICAL AMERICA - International Conductors Guild Conference - NYC!
INTERNATIONAL CONDUCTORS GUILD CONFERENCE TO FEATURE JAMIE BERNSTEIN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The International Conductors Guild (ICG), the international network for conductors, is pleased to feature Jamie Bernstein, daughter of the renowned “Leonard Bernstein: Citizen Artist” as their keynote speaker in New York City on Friday, January 5, 2024. Ms. Bernstein will be a featured guest speaker at the International Conductors Guild’s annual members’ conference at David Geffen Hall’s new Sidewalk Studio at Lincoln Center.
Jamie Bernstein’s career as an author, narrator, and filmmaker has taken her around the world to share her father’s life and legacy as a musical artist, educator, and activist-humanitarian. Her memoir, “Famous Father Girl,” is a rare, intimate look at her father and what life was like for her, growing up in the Bernstein home. It was published by HarperCollins in 2018 to mark the centennial of her father’s birth.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary year in 2025, the ICG organization, whose mission is dedicated to encouraging and promoting the highest standards in the art and profession of conducting, has held an annual conference nearly every year of its fifty years of operation. Dr. Claire Fox Hillard, President of the ICG and Music Director and Conductor of the Albany (GA) Symphony Orchestra commented, “This year’s conference follows our incredibly successful 2023 conference in Valencia, Spain, and our collaboration with the Berklee Valencia School of Music. We are overjoyed to have Jamie Bernstein as our keynote speaker this year as we celebrate her father’s work and music. We are also pleased to be offer a private tour of the new Geffen Hall with Mr. Christopher Blair, Vice President of the ICG and Principal, Chief Scientist, and Tuning Conductor with AKUSTIKS, the firm responsible for the acoustic renovation of the hall. Chris will give our delegates a behind the scenes view of the new hall which is quite exciting.”
The ICG’s volunteer conference committee, led by Dr. Carlos Brown, Director of Choral Activities at the College of Charleston, met virtually since early September to plan this year’s event and included a call for presentation proposals to the ICG membership. Selected from a committee of conductor peers from around the world, 24 of the 56 presentation proposals submitted will form the agenda and topic areas for this year’s event. Dr. Brown commented, “We were very pleased with the very high quality of the proposed presentations and thank everyone who submitted for this year’s conference. The unselected presentations we hope to share with our members and others via our popular online Podium Talks throughout the coming year.”
The conference will begin with a get-together on the rooftop of the Empire Hotel on 62nd street on Wednesday, January 3rd at 7:30pm, and conference sessions beginning at Geffen Hall on Thursday, January 4th with the group’s attendance at the dress rehearsal of the New York Philharmonic with Jaap van Zweden and pianist Rudolf Buchbinder performing Wagner’s, Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 4, and Brahms, Symphony No. 4.
Conference sessions will include:
Janna Sailor – “The Orchestra Re-Imagined: Community Engagement
and Societal Change Through Music”
Mark Bailey – “Conductor on Early Sound Recordings and the Art of
Romantic-Era Expression”
Francesco Attardi Anselmo – “Ottorino Respighi and the United
States: “The masterpieces commissioned by the great American
orchestras and their conductors: Koussevitsky, Reiner, Mengelberg,
Toscanini”
Scott Woodard – “To Relieve the Distressed: Benefit Concerts in the
Age of the Cash Crunch”
Liane Curtis – “Symphonies by Women: Exploring Three Centuries of
Great Works”
Sonia Marie De Leon De Vega – “Inclusion of Latino Communities and
Culturally Specific Communities”
William Kinderman – “Conducting Beethoven: From Rain and Hail on
Earth to the Starry Heavens Above”
Noreen Green-Drew – The Music of Eric Zeisl
Lawrence Isaacson – “Wow Your July 4th Audience!”
John Mauceri – A Conversation with Robert Whalen
Carlos Brown – “God, Give Us Men! A Conversation and Lecture on the
Life and Four Contrasting Choral Works by Uzee Brown, Jr.”
Alexandra Zacharella – “Exploring the Historical Landscape of
Pioneer Women Conductors”
Robert Baldwin – “The ‘C’ Before Copland. Rediscovering the
Neglected Orchestral Gems of American Composer, George Chadwick: A
Conductors Resource”
Philip Aguglia – “The Artistry and Science of Making the Conductors
Baton”
Richard Hickham – “The AdventHealth Orchestra – Medical Expertise,
Musical Passion”
Rain Worthington – “Creating Contemporary Concert Experiences:
Actionable Ideas for Cultivating Audience Engagement”
James Sinclair – “Conducting Charles Ives”
Sixtos Montesinos – “Eduardo Mata: Harmony Across Borders –
Celebrating the Legacy of a Mexican Maestro”
Marc-Andre Bougie – “Working on a Symphony Masterworks Program with
a Guest Choir – A Road Map”
Zarifa Adiba – “Playing for Freedom”
A key feature of every ICG conference is the benefit of receiving mentoring from expert colleagues who volunteer to assist fellow conductors with a variety of issues or questions that may include score study, dealing with a board of directors, which publishers to use, diverse programming, musician conflict resolution, and technique – baton, rehearsal, to name only a few. Conference delegates can sign up during the registration process for mentorship session or when they arrive at the conference.
Additional events will include an optional tour of the backstage of The MET Opera House, Election of Officers and Directors, and the Annual Membership Meeting of the International Conductors Guild. A conductor workshop will also be included in this year’s conference with applications sent to the ICG membership for participation. More details will be forthcoming.
Attendees are encouraged to register before Tuesday, November 20 to receive the early-bird $385 discount rate for the three-day event. New and first-time attendees receive a slightly reduced registration rate of $325 and students attending 4-year undergrad, master’s or doctoral programs may attend for only $100 for the three-day event. Group discounted tickets to the Saturday, January 6 New York Philharmonic performance are available, as well as discounted group rates at the Empire Hotel by December 4th, and discounted airfare through Delta Air Lines which has been a supporter/partner of the ICG for several years.
The full conference agenda may be viewed via the ICG website: https://www.internationalconductorsguild.org/2024-new-york-schedule-conference and registration may also be done online or by contacting the ICG office:
https://www.internationalconductorsguild.org/2024-registration-new-york-city-conference
For more information or assistance, please contact the ICG office at (202) 643-4791 or [email protected] |
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