conductors - Schwob School of Music

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Workshop Information
17TH ANNUAL
CONDUCTORS
WORKSHOP
Clinicians
Eugene Migliaro Corporon
Kevin Sedatole
Jamie L. Nix
2014 CSU Conductors Workshop
• World-class conducting clinicians and facilities
• Non-competitive, friendly, nurturing environment
• Aimed to energize and re-focus skills and musicianship
• Workshop for conductors of all levels and abilities
• Past conductors and auditors represent 35 states and 5 countries
Columbus State University
4225 University Avenue
Columbus, Georgia 31907-5645
For Conductors of all levels
CONDUCTOR STATUS
• Limited to 17 conductors
• Conductor status on first-come, first-served basis
• After 17 slots are filled, additional applicants can receive
auditor status and be placed on a waiting list for conductor
status if they wish
• Conductor status obtained by registering online or returning
the registration card and $225 fee
• Conductors provide their own scores
• All fees are non-refundable upon confirmation of slot
REPERTOIRE
AUDITOR STATUS
• Unlimited auditor spots
• Auditor status is obtained by registering online or returning
the registration card and $75 fee
• Auditors provide their own scores
• All fees are non-refundable upon confirmation of slot
• Auditors attend all sessions and clinics, but without one-onone podium time
WIND ENSEMBLE (select one - any section or movement)
Overture to Candide—Leonard Bernstein
Song—William Bolcom
Marsch from Symphonic Metamorphosis—Paul Hindemith
WORKSHOP SITE
CSU RiverCenter for the Performing Arts
900 Broadway
Columbus, GA 31901
MAILING ADDRESS
Columbus State University
Schwob School of Music Conductors Workshop
4225 University Avenue
Columbus, GA 31907-5645
WORKSHOP COORDINATOR
Fletcher Peacock
[email protected]
November 21 and 22, 2014
OFFICIAL HOTEL
Columbus Marriott
800 Front Avenue
Columbus, GA 31901
706-324-1800
Hotel conveniently located directly across from the RiverCenter
and Schwob School of Music
Book early, as there is another event in Columbus that
weekend
www.ColumbusState.edu/Music
WIND ORCHESTRA (select one—any section or movement)
Second Suite in F—Gustav Holst
Dusk—Steven Bryant
Slava—Leonard Bernstein
CHAMBER WINDS (select one—any section)
Scherzo Alla Marcia—Ralph Vaughan Williams
Funeral Music for Queen Mary—Steven Stucky
FRIDAY CONCERT PROGRAM (7:00 PM)
LEONARD BERNSTEIN: Overture to Candide
ROBERT BEASER: The End of Knowing
PAUL DOOLEY: Point Blank
WILLIAM BOLCOM: Song
KEVIN PUTS: Millennium Canons
Faculty
Eugene Migliaro Corporon is the conductor of the Wind
Symphony and Regents Professor of Music at the University of
North Texas. As Director of Wind Studies he guides all aspects
of the program, including the masters and doctoral degrees in
Wind Conducting. Mr. Corporon is a graduate of California State
University, Long Beach and Claremont Graduate University. His
performances have drawn praise from colleagues, composers and
critics alike. Mr. Corporon has held positions at the University of
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Michigan State University, the University
of Northern Colorado, the University of Wisconsin, and California State University,
Fullerton. His ensembles have performed at the Midwest International Band
and Orchestra Clinic, Southwestern Music Educators National Conference, Texas
Music Educators Association Clinic/Convention, Texas Bandmasters Association
Convention/Clinic, International Trumpet Guild Conference, International Clarinet
Society Convention, North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, Percussive Arts
Society International Convention, National Wind Ensemble Conference, College Band
Directors National Association Conference, Japan Band Clinic, and the Conference for
the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles.
Having recorded over 600 works, including many premieres and commissions,
his groups have released 100 recordings on the Toshiba/EMI, Klavier, Mark, CAFUA,
Donemus, Soundmark, GIA, Albany, Naxos, and Centaur labels. These recordings,
two of which have appeared on the Grammy nomination ballot, are aired regularly on
radio broadcasts throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Mr. Corporon maintains
an active guest-conducting schedule and is in demand as a conductor and teacher
throughout the world. He is Past President of the College Band Directors National
Association and a member of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and
Ensembles International Board. He has been honored by the American Bandmasters
Association and by Phi Beta Mu with invitations to membership. Mr. Corporon, a
frequent guest conductor at the Showa University of Music in Kawasaki City, Japan,
has also served as a visiting conductor at the Interlochen World Center for Arts
Education and the Aspen Music Festival and School. He is also the conductor of the
Lone Star Wind Orchestra, a professional group made up of musicians from the Dallas
and Fort Worth metroplex.
He is co-host with Barry Green on The Inner Game of Music video, which focuses
on overcoming mental obstacles and achieving one’s full potential as a performer.
He also appears with James Jordan on the DVD, The Anatomy of Conducting. He
is co-author of the book Teaching Music Through Performance in Band that is
published in seven volumes by GIA Publications. This series includes thirteen sets
of Resource Recordings by the North Texas Wind Symphony. The Teaching Music
Project emphasizes the importance of comprehensive conceptual learning in the
music-making process as well as the value of performing music of artistic significance.
Professor Corporon is a recipient of the International Grainger Society Distinctive
Contribution Medallion as well as the Phi Beta Mu International Band Conductor of
the Year Award. He has also received the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia National Citation
for advancing the cause of music in America, the University of North Texas Student
Government Association Honor Professor Award for teaching excellence, student
rapport, and scholarly publications, the American School Band Directors Association
A. A. Harding Award for making significant and lasting contributions to the school
band movement, and the California State University, Long Beach, College of Fine
Arts and Department of Music Distinguished Alumni Awards. He is grateful to many
people for their guidance and inspiration in his life. Among them are Charles Yates,
Robert Reynolds, Benton Minor, Don Wilcox, Larry Maxey, Jack Hopkins, Frederick
Fennell, Barry Green, James Jordan, and Carolyn Corporon.
Kevin Sedatole serves as director of bands, professor of
music, and chair of the conducting area at the Michigan State
University College of Music. Prior to joining MSU, he was
director of bands and associate professor of conducting at Baylor
University. Previous to his appointment at Baylor he served as
associate director of bands at the University of Texas and director
of the Longhorn Band, and as associate director of bands at the
University of Michigan and Stephen F. Austin State University.
Sedatole holds both the doctor of musical arts degree and master of music degree
from the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his bachelor of music degree from
Baylor University. His publications include: One Hundred Years of the Michigan
Marching Band, published by the University of Michigan Press; “Michael Daugherty’s
Niagara Falls: A Conductor’s Analysis” and “Gordon Jacob’s Music for a Festival:
A Conductor’s Analysis,” both of which appeared in Teaching Music Through
Performance in Band; and “Expressive Conducting: What We Should All Know to
Be Musical Conductors,” which appeared in the Texas Music Educators Association
publication, Southwestern Musician.
Sedatole has conducted performances for the College Band Directors National
Association, American Bandmasters Association, Texas Music Educators Association,
Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, and the World Association of
Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, as well as performances in Carnegie Hall. He is
a member of the College Band Directors National Association, for which he serves
as Southwestern Division vice president, the American Bandmasters Association,
the Big 12 Band Directors’ Association, the Michigan State Band and Orchestra
Association, the Texas Music Educators Association, and the Texas Bandmasters
Association. He holds honorary memberships in the Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta
Sigma National Band Fraternities, as well as the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Professional
Musicians Fraternity.
Schedule
Registration Card 2014
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2014
You may register and pay by credit card online. Go to http://music.
columbusstate.edu/windensemble and select 2014 Conductors
Workshop or use this registration form by regular mail.
3:45-4:30 pm
Open rehearsal with Eugene Migliaro Corporon (LH)
4:30-5:15 pm
Open rehearsal with Kevin Sedatole (LH)
6:00-7:00 pm
Workshop Registration/Check-in (RC Foyer)
7:00 pm
Wind Ensemble Concert (LH)
8:15 pm
Welcome and Philosophy (ST)
8:30-11:00 pm Wind Orchestra Session (LH)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2014
8:00-9:00 am
Workshop Registration (RC Foyer)
9:00-12:00 pm Chamber Winds Session (LH)
12:00-1:15 pm Lunch (on own)
Jamie L. Nix is director of wind ensemble activities and
associate professor of music at Columbus State University’s
Schwob School of Music. Dr. Nix conducts the CSU Wind
Ensemble and Wind Orchestra, coordinates the graduate
wind band conducting program, and hosts the annual CSU
Conductors Workshop. He previously served as the Donald R.
Shepherd assistant professor of conducting at the University
of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance and assistant
director of bands at The University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music.
In 2015 Nix will conduct the CSU Wind Ensemble at the CBDNA National
Convention in Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center. He has also served as
conductor at the CBDNA Southern Division and North Central Division Conferences,
Music for All Summer Symposium, GMEA State Conference, International Trumpet
Guild Conference, International Trombone Festival Conference, Florida All-State
Band, and numerous region and honor bands and orchestras throughout the country.
As an orchestral conductor he participated in the 2008 International Mahler/Brahms
Conducting Festival with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic in the Czech Republic.
Nix holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the University
of Miami Frost School of Music (professor Gary Green), two Master of Music
degrees in conducting and trombone performance from the University of Michigan
(professor H. Robert Reynolds), and a Bachelor of Music Performance degree from
Auburn University. He is a member of College Band Directors National Association,
Georgia Music Educators Association, Texas Music Educators Association, League of
American Orchestras, Pi Kappa Lambda, and is an honorary member of the Michigan
School Band and Orchestra Association, Phi Kappa Phi, and Tau Beta Sigma. He is
a conductor or producer on the following CDs: A Beautiful Noise, Wolf Rounds, The
Blue Album, Brooklyn Bridge, The Victors Valiant, and will release a new CSU Wind
Ensemble CD entitled Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs on the Naxos label in 2015.
1:15-2:00 pm
Kevin Sedatole presentation (ST)
2:00-2:45 pm
Eugene Corporon presentation (ST)
2:45-3:45 pm
Panel Discussion (ST)
3:45-4:15 pm
Break—drinks/snacks provided by CSU
4:15-7:30 pm
Wind Ensemble Session (LH)
7:30 pm
Conclusion (dinner on your own)
* Note: Meals (except Saturday snack) are not included in your
fee. Restaurant guide is included in your packet.
* Visit music.columbusstate.edu/windensemble and click 2014
Conductors Workshop for more information, or call 706-649-7252
RC = RiverCenter
LH = Legacy Hall
ST = Studio Theater
Please enclose your check or money order payable to
Columbus State University with this registration card.
Select from the following:
I am enrolling as a conductor ($225)
I am enrolling as an auditor ($75)
SDU/PLU ($10, additional)
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2014 Conductors Workshop
Columbus State University • Schwob School of Music
4225 University Avenue • Columbus, Georgia 31907-5645
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