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Saturday, December 12, 2009 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Ferguson Hall, University of Minneapolis
The Conducting Symposium will inspire you and invigorate your passion for teaching and music-making. The symposium focuses on issues of interest to music educators at all levels including effective rehearsal and conducting techniques, communication, and movement for conductors. You will learn how to become an advocate for genuine music-making by approaching it from the inside out. The Conducting Symposium will be limited to 50 overall participants with 12 conductors selected to participate as active conductors. Participants will be accepted on a first come first serve basis.
For more information, download the Conducting Schedule Cover Letter. To apply, download the Application and Conducting Component.
The University of Minnesota High School Honor Band Weekend will be Friday, January 29 through Sunday, January 31, 2010. Ninety of the upper Midwest's finest young wind and percussion instrumentalists will rehearse and perform challenging wind music in Ted Mann Concert Hall.
For more information, download the Letter from the Directors.
To apply, download the application.
All applications and tapes must be received in the University of Minnesota Bands Office no later than Monday, November 9, 2009.
Event will take place in Ted Mann Concert Hall on Tuesday, October 6 at 10 a.m. Featuring a keynote by Marin Alsop, internationally acclaimed conductor, on "Education and the Arts: Musicians as Engaged Leaders" and a performance of Leonard Bernstein's "Make Our Garden Grow" by the University Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs. Featured speakers also include James A. Parente, Jr., College of Liberal Arts Dean and David E. Myers, School of Music Director. The community is invited to attend. For more information on Marin Alsop, visit her website.
The fifteenth annual University of Minnesota High School Honor Band Weekend will be held on campus Friday, January 30 through Sunday, February 1, 2009. This will be an opportunity for approximately ninety of the upper Midwest’s finest young wind and percussion instrumentalists to rehearse and perform challenging wind music in Ted Mann Concert Hall. High school students in grades 10–12 are eligible to participate. All applications and tapes must be received no later than Monday, November 10, 2008.
The Conducting Symposium focuses on issues of interest to music educators at all levels including effective rehearsal and conducting techniques, communication and movement for conductors. You will learn how to become an advocate for genuine music-making by approaching it from the inside out. The symposium environment promotes creativity, collaboration, and personal renewal as the means to inspired teaching and dynamic performances. Symposium applications are due by Monday, November 10.
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The annual U of M School of Music Schmitt Music Piano Sale will take place Friday, August 15 through Sunday, August 17 in Ferguson Hall at the University of Minnesota School of Music.
The documentary film Note by Note, which follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand, will be screened for free in Ferguson Hall, Room 225 on Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17 at 2 pm.
Visit the Schmitt Music website for more information about this sale and free screenings of Note by Note.
Dr. David Myers, currently professor in the School of Music at Georgia State University, Georgia, has been named director of the School of Music at the University of Minnesota.
Myers will become the School’s eleventh director. He succeeds Dr. Noel Zahler, who left the school in 2007 to become head of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University. Myers’s appointment becomes effective September 29, 2008.
For more information about Dr. David Myers, click here.
The Mechelke Competition will not take place this year. Information regarding next year's Mechelke Competition will be posted as soon as it is available. For questions and further information, please contact Professor Rebecca Shockley at shock001@umn.edu.
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