Kenneth Woods, conductor
Resumé
Music Director, Assistant Conductor-
2010-date: Principal Guest Conductor, Orchestra of the Swan
2006- date: Music Director, Surrey Mozart Players
2005- date: Principal Guest Conductor, Rose City Chamber Orchestra
2000-2009: Music Director and Conductor, Oregon East Symphony and
Chorale
Founding Conductor, OES Preparatory Orchestra (2002-)
Founding Artistic Director, OES Summer Music Camp (2000-)
2004-date: Principal Conductor, Lancashire Chamber Orchestra
1999-2002: Music Director, Grande Ronde Symphony and Youth
Orchestras
1999-2002: Head of Strings and Instrumental Conducting, Eastern
Oregon University
1998-1999: Acting Music Director, Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
1998-1999: Conducting Assistant, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra,
Cincinnati Pops
1994-1999: Assistant Conductor, Texas Festival Orchestra
1996-1998: Chief Assistant Conductor Cincinnati Philharmonia
1996-1998: Assistant Conductor, CCM Opera Theater, CCM Ballet,
CCM Contemporary Music Ensemble
1994-1997: Assistant Conductor, Cover Conductor, Scotia Festival of
Music
Guest Conductor-
National Symphony Orchestra                                  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Spring 2012)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales                             Fort Wayne Philharmonic
Rose City Chamber Orchestra                                  State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra
Northern Sinfonia                                                      New Queen's Hall Orchestra
Orchestra  of the Swan                                              Bath Philharmonia
Aspen Music Festival (Academy Orchestra)              Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Lancashire Chamber Orchestra (UK)                        Ernest Read Symphony (London)
Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra                               Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra
Royal Orchestra Society (London)                            Surrey Mozart Players
Contemporary Music Ensemble of Wales                  Grandin Festival Players
Cincinnati American Music Festival Orchestra           UW Summer Clinic Honors Orchestra        
Plevin Philharmonic, Bulgaria                                    Camerata & Chorus of St. Cyres
Eastern Chamber Choir                                             Grande Ronde Community Chorus
Orchestra Sinfonica di Pescara                                 Texas Festival Orchestra
Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra                               Consort Columbia
Nottingham Philharmonic                                           Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra
Kent County Youth Orchestra                                    Helix Ensemble
Scotia Festival Orchestra                                          Valparaiso University Symphony
CCM Opera Theatre                                                  CCM Philharmonia
Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra                      Wrexham Symphony Orchestra
CCM Concert Orchestra                                            CCM Ballet Orchestra
Hermiston A Cappella Choir                                       CCM Contemporary Music Ensemble
University of Delaware Symphony                              Wisconsin Philomusica
University of Miami Symphony                                   John Day Chorus
University of Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra             Cincinnati Recent Music Ensemble
"Conductor Ken Woods
from the Cincinnati
Conservatory marshaled
the forces with
admirable consistency,
securely initiating
tempos, shaping the
endless flow of melody
and instrumental
acrobatics and balancing
the embarrassment of
musical riches to clarify
the main line. A brilliant
job…"

Halifax Mail Star
Other Conducting Experience-
(Workshops, auditions, cover conducting, etc)
2001 Participant, National Conducting Institute at the Kennedy Center
2000 Aspen Fellow at American Academy of Conducting at Aspen (inaugural class)
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (Assistant Conductor semi-finalist)
Budapest Festival Orchestra (Assistant Conductor runner-up)
Cover conductor (visiting), National Symphony Orchestra, 2001-
Cover conductor, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, 2003-
Workshop orchestras include- St. Louis Symphony Youth Symphony (ASOL), San
Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (ASOL), Bakersfield Symphony
Young People's, Educational Concerts-
Other Educational Projects-
  • Oregon East Symphony Preparatory Orchestra
  • Grande Ronde Symphony and Grande Ronde Youth Orchestras     

Other Educational Projects-                     
  • Collaborator with BBC National Orchestra of Wales education department 2004-,
    including a conducting masterclass with BBC NOW players in Nov. 2004, and
    numerous clinics and outreach sessions with student and amateur musicians
  • Conductor for "Play it Again" concerts with BBC NOW as part of the BBC's
    education project and BBC 2 Television series
  • Founding director, Rose City Conductor’s Workshop, a professional training
    program for young conductors
  • Cover conductor for entire 1998-9 season of Cincinnati Symphony YP and
    educational programming
  • 1995 National Endowment for the Arts/Chamber Music America Rural Residency as
    cellist of Taliesin Trio
  • Educational concerts and school residencies throughout northeast Arkansas and
    southeast Missouri
Education-
1991-1993: University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music. MM in cello performance
1986-1990: Indiana University, Bloomington, School of Music. BM in cello performance

Other education:
  • 2001: National Conducting Institute, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and
    National Symphony Orchestra
  • 2000: American Academy of Conducting at Aspen (Aspen Fellow)
copyright 1991- by Kenneth Woods