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Contact:
Mun-Tzung Wong
New York Conducting Institute
(917) 960-3123
[email protected]
New York Conducting Institute Presents its Inaugural International Women’s Conducting Workshop
New York, NY: On March 17th, 2017 New York Conducting Institute (NYCI) will hold a four day workshop for women conductors at the National Opera Center. Maestro Diane Wittry of the Allentown Symphony will lead the event that includes sessions on baton technique and coached podium time in front of a sextet and a full orchestra. Additionally, clinics, that deal with career topics, will be held. Also scheduled will be panel discussions with pioneering women conductors such as: Victoria Bond, Teresa Cheung, Janna Hymes and Gisele Ben-Dor. The repertoire for the workshop will be Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite (1919 version) and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Workshop participants will be considered for Conducting Fellow positions with the Allentown Symphony.
“I am very excited to be teaching the First International Women’s Conducting Workshop in New York. It is so important that we nurture and develop the talent that we have and that we encourage women to pursue their careers as conductors of orchestras all over the world,” Ms. Wittry said. “I am very passionate about developing avenues for mentorship and lifetime learning and growth for women conductors.”
“For this workshop, we are trying to ensure that women are prepared to enter the pipeline of qualified conducting candidates,” said NYCI co-founder, Alicia Lieu.
About NYCI: NYCI's mission is to help leaders transform the world through the power of music by providing opportunities for conductors at all levels of experience to study repertoire from the orchestral, ballet, and operatic canon with exceptional pedagogues. Alicia Lieu and Mun-Tzung Wong began organizing conducting workshops in 2013 and incorporated New York Conducting Institute in 2016 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. www.newyorkconductinginstitute.org
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Contact:
Mun-Tzung Wong
New York Conducting Institute
(917) 960-3123
[email protected]
New York Conducting Institute Presents its Inaugural International Women’s Conducting Workshop
New York, NY: On March 17th, 2017 New York Conducting Institute (NYCI) will hold a four day workshop for women conductors at the National Opera Center. Maestro Diane Wittry of the Allentown Symphony will lead the event that includes sessions on baton technique and coached podium time in front of a sextet and a full orchestra. Additionally, clinics, that deal with career topics, will be held. Also scheduled will be panel discussions with pioneering women conductors such as: Victoria Bond, Teresa Cheung, Janna Hymes and Gisele Ben-Dor. The repertoire for the workshop will be Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite (1919 version) and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Workshop participants will be considered for Conducting Fellow positions with the Allentown Symphony.
“I am very excited to be teaching the First International Women’s Conducting Workshop in New York. It is so important that we nurture and develop the talent that we have and that we encourage women to pursue their careers as conductors of orchestras all over the world,” Ms. Wittry said. “I am very passionate about developing avenues for mentorship and lifetime learning and growth for women conductors.”
“For this workshop, we are trying to ensure that women are prepared to enter the pipeline of qualified conducting candidates,” said NYCI co-founder, Alicia Lieu.
About NYCI: NYCI's mission is to help leaders transform the world through the power of music by providing opportunities for conductors at all levels of experience to study repertoire from the orchestral, ballet, and operatic canon with exceptional pedagogues. Alicia Lieu and Mun-Tzung Wong began organizing conducting workshops in 2013 and incorporated New York Conducting Institute in 2016 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. www.newyorkconductinginstitute.org
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