International Conductors Guild - Fort Wayne Philharmonic

International Conductor Workshop

Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA 

Friday, March 21 - Wednesday, March 26, 2025   

 2025 CONDUCTORS WORKSHOP CONCERT March 13, 2025
 7:30 pm  Auer Hall at the Purdue Fort Wayne Music Center  

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2025 WORKSHOP CONDUCTORS!
J. Alexander Bennett - Brent Chancellor - Gert Kumi - Ziwei Ma 
Grace Wahlen - Timothy Woods - Gan Xiong - Cara Xu

Presented in partnership with the 
International Conductors Guild, and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic
with major support from the
Donald F. Wood and Darlene M. Richardson Foundation,
and Purdue University Fort Wayne.

This season the Fort Wayne Philharmonic joins the International Conductors Guild to present an international conductor training workshop designed to provide 8 promising conductors - from around the world - with instruction on the principles and techniques of one of the most celebrated conducting teachers of the twentieth century, Maestro Ilya Musin.

Over a legendary teaching career spanning 60 years, Ilya Musin's students included Vassily Sinaisky, Valery Gergiev, Ennio Nicotra, Yuri Temirkanov, Sian Edwards, Semyon Bychkov, Andrew Constantine, Konstantin Simeonov, Victor Fedotov, Martin Brabbins and many others.

The 2025 workshop will be held in Friday, March 21 through Wednesday, March 26, 2025 In Fort Wayne, Indiana and will be led by Musin protégé and internationally renowned conductor and Fort Wayne Philharmonic Music Director, Andrew Constantine.  

The workshop schedule begins with several two-piano sessions, moving to full orchestra rehearsals with the musicians of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and a concluding final performance on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from 7:30pm to 8:30pm. Participants also receive individual instruction and consultations with Maestro Constantine.

 "Hailed by Ilya Musin as ‘a brilliant representative’ of the conducting art”. 

"A conductor must make music visible to his musicians with his hands. There are two components to conducting, expressiveness and exactness. However these two components are incompatible; in fact, they cancel each other out. The conductor’s challenge, therefore, is to find a way of combining them.”

 
WORKSHOP REPERTOIRE

Mozart - Symphony No. 39, K. 543, E-flat major (1788)
   I.  Adagio - Allegro
   II. Andante con moto
   III. Menuetto:  Allegretto
   IV. Allegro

Brahms, Symphony No. 2, op.73, D major (1877)   
   I. Allegro non troppo
   II. Adagio non troppo
   III. Allegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino)
   IV.  Allegro con spirito

WORKSHOP TUITION

Participating conductors may use THIS FORM to pay their tuition payment.

Participating Conductor - $1,700 (USD) - Member of the International Conductors Guild
Participating Conductor - $1,950 (USD) - Non-Member of the International Conductors Guild
Auditor Conductor - $750 (USD) - Member of the International Conductors Guild
Auditor Conductor - $950 (USD) - Non-Member of the International Conductors Guild 

Application Deadline: Sunday, February 16, 2025
Application Fee: $40
Notification of Acceptance: Friday, February 21, 2025
Full tuition payment due: Monday, March 10, 2025

ACCOMMODATION

Successful applicants who participate in this workshop should look into Airbnb residences in Fort Wayne which can be quite reasonable.  There are also moderate local hotels available. Participants are responsible for arranging and paying for their own accommodations. The Philharmonic can supply accommodation recommendations, if needed.  Participants are also responsible for their travel to and from the Fort Wayne Workshop sessions.  

Aspiring conductors from several countries and continents have participated in this workshop in past years, often returning to hone their skills in this intensive, fast-paced, and supportive environment. 

2025 CONDUCTOR WORKSHOP SCHEDULE 

*If you are not from the local Fort Wayne area, it is highly recommended that you arrive the night
before the first session so plan your accommodation accordingly.

Friday, March 21, 2025
10:00am – 12:30pm    Piano Session 1 (Rhinehart Recital Hall-PFW)
2:00pm – 4:30pm        Piano Session 2 (Rhinehart Recital Hall-PFW)

Saturday, March 22, 2025
2:00pm – 5:00pm        Piano Session 3 (Rhinehart Recital Hall-PFW)

Sunday, March 23, 2025
2:00pm – 5:00pm        Piano Session 4(Auer Performance Hall-PFW) 
    *Freimann 3 concert in Recital Hall at 2:00pm