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educational events
open rehearsals | concert talks | lunch with the composers | student staff | conductors/composers workshop
conductors/composers workshop
“..the Cabrillo Festival is an asset to be cherished...It's the
ambiance that opens the door to musical adventurousness.” —San
Jose Mercury News
A New Professional Education Program
Marin Alsop’s commitment to music education in general, and to the
training of young conductors specifically, led to a conversation in 1999
with the (then) President of the Conductors Guild (CG), Wes Kenney, a
long time Festival-goer. Those discussions fostered a collaboration between
the two organizations which is now entering its third season. The Cabrillo
Conductors Training Workshop was initiated in 2001, and in 2002 became
the Cabrillo Conductors/Composers Training Workshop, adding three young
composers and the preparation and performance of their compositions into
the program. The prestigious faculty for the five-day program includes
Cabrillo Festival Music Director Marin Alsop, her teacher and mentor,
Maestro Gustav Meier, and composing faculty Michael Daugherty. With the
support of the National Endowment for the Arts, this summer’s program
includes 7 participating conductors, 3 young composers, and 14 auditing
conductors. The program runs from July 25 through July 30 on the campus
of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and at the Santa Cruz
Civic Auditorium. The workshops culminate with a public reading of the
three composers’ works, conducted by student conductors, and performed
by members of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra. This "In the Works"
concert takes place on Wednesday, July 30, from 5:15-6:15pm at the Santa
Cruz Civic Auditorium, and is free and open to the public.
Gustav Meier
Gustav Meier, a member of the Distinguished Visiting Faculty in Graduate
Conducting at The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
He received his diploma from the Zurich Conservatory in Switzerland and
undertook additional studies at Academia Chigiana Siena. Meier serves
as Music Director for the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra in Michigan
and Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut. He has regular appearances
as guest conductor in Europe, South and Central America, China, Canada,
and throughout the United States. Meier was former director of the Conductors
Seminar at Tanglewood from 1980-1996, and former faculty at Yale School
of Music, Eastman School of Music, and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
His awards include the Luise Vorgerian Teaching Award from Harvard University,
the 1996 Ditson Prize for a commitment to consistently perform works of
American composers, and the Max Rudolf Award in 1999 from the Conductors
Guild. He teaches regular master courses in such cities as Kiev, Bejing,
Mexico City, and Adelaide.
Conductors Guild
The Conductors Guild was founded in 1975 at the San Diego Conference of
the American Symphony Orchestra League, and it continued for a decade
as a subsidiary of that organization. In 1985, the Guild became independent.
The Conductors Guild is the only music service organization devoted exclusively
to the advancement of the art of conducting, and to serving the artistic
and professional needs of conductors. The Guild is international in scope,
with a membership of over 2,000 individual and institutional members,
representing all fifty states and more than thirty countries, including
conductors of major stature and international renown. Membership is open
to all conductors and institutions involved with instrumental and /or
vocal music, including symphony and chamber orchestra, opera, ballet/dance,
chorus, musical theatre, wind ensemble and band. The Conductors Guild
(http://www.conductorsguild.org)
sponsors numerous conductors training workshops, seminars, and symposia
throughout the year, as well as publishing and disseminating publications
and sharing resources.
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