. His work on the concert platform and in the recording studio has led to numerous broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, National Public Radio, and the Canadian
\nBroadcasting Corporation.<\/p>\nIn the spring of 2001, Kenneth Woods was selected by Leonard Slatkin as one of four participants in the Kennedy Center National Conducting Institute. At the completion of the Institute, he led the National Symphony Orchestra in a debut concert, drawing great critical acclaim. Toronto Symphony Music Director Designate Peter Oundjian has praised Woods as \u201ca conductor with true vision and purpose. He has a most fluid and clear style and an excellent command on the podium\u2026 a most complete musician.\u201d<\/p>\n
Woods\u2019 activities as an active proponent of contemporary music include collaborations as a conductor or cellist with such figures as John Corigliano, Krystopf Penderecki, Peter Lieberson, Oliver Knussen and many others. He is a highly regarded teacher of conducting who has been a clinician for masterclasses offered by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and in 2005 was asked by the musicians of the Rose City Chamber Orchestra to found a new training institute for emerging professional conductors, the Rose City International Conductor’s Workshop.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAs a cellist he has been recipient of the Aspen Fellowship (Mr. Woods has received the Aspen Fellowship as both a cellist and conductor), the Dale Gilbert Award (the only musician to win this award in consecutive years), the Strelow Quartet Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Rural Residency Grant and has recorded and toured extensively as soloist and chamber musician. He has played chamber music with members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the <\/span>Cincinnati<\/span><\/span>, <\/span>Chicago<\/span> and <\/span>Toronto<\/span> symphonies, and the <\/span>Minnesota<\/span><\/span>, Gewandhaus and Concertgebow orchestras. As a student, he coached with members of many of the worlds leading quartets, including the <\/span>Tokyo<\/span><\/span>, Vermeer, <\/span>La Salle<\/span>, Pro Arte, Borodin, Emerson and Vegh.
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\n<\/span><\/div>\n Mr. Woods pursued his advanced conducting studies at the <\/span>University<\/span> of <\/span>Cincinnati<\/span> College-Conservatory<\/span> of Music, and has also studied at leading summer institutes and workshops around the world. He has studied conducting with Leonard Slatkin, David Zinman, Jorma Panula, Murry Sidlin, Robert Spano, Gerhard Samuel, and Larry Rachleff.
\n<\/span><\/div>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\nDavid Hoose<\/a>–<\/span><\/div>\nDavid Hoose is Music Director of two distinguished Boston<\/span> musical institutions, the Cantata Singers & Ensemble, a organization whose repertoire reaches from Bach and Handel to the music of today, with all in between, and Collage New Music, a chamber ensemble devoted to music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and whose members include musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra. As well, Mr. Hoose has recently completed eleven years as Music Director of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. He is Professor of Music at the Boston University<\/span> School of Music where he is Director of Orchestral Activities and Chairman \u00a0of the Conducting Department.
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\n<\/span><\/div>\n Mr. Hoose has just been awarded the 2005 Alice M. Ditson Conductors Award, given in recognition of his commitment to the performance of American Music. He has also received the Dmitri Mitropoloulos Award and, as a member of the Emmanuel Wind Quintet, the Walter W. Naumburg Award for Chamber Music. Mr. Hoose\u2019s recordings appear on the <\/span>New World<\/span>, Koch, Nonesuch, <\/span>Delos<\/span>, CRI and GunMar labels. His recordings of John Harbison\u2019s Motteti di Montale with Collage New Music and Harbison\u2019s Four Psalms and Emerson with the Cantata Singers & Ensemble have been recently released by New World Records, and his recordings\u00a0 of Peter Child\u2019s chamber opera Embers and of the complete chamber music of Donald Sur are forthcoming. The recording of the Harbison Motteti di Montale has been nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award.
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\n<\/span><\/div>\n Mr. Hoose has conducted the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis<\/span> Symphony, Utah Symphony, Chicago<\/span> Philharmonic, Korean Broadcasting Symphony (KBS), Orchestra Regionale Toscana (Florence), Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra, Ann Arbor<\/span> Symphony, Opera Festival of New Jersey<\/span>, and at the Warebrook, New Hampshire<\/span>, Monadnock and Tanglewood music festivals. In <\/span>Boston<\/span> he has appeared as guest conductor with the Boston<\/span> Symphony Chamber Players, Handel & Haydn Society, Back Bay Chorale, Chorus Pro Musica, Fromm Chamber Players, Dinosaur Annex, Auros, and many times both with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and with Emmanuel Music. For many summers he has conducted the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra, and he has been guest conductor at New England Conservatory, <\/span>Eastman<\/span> <\/span>School<\/span>, Shepherd School of Rice University and <\/span>University<\/span> of <\/span>Southern California<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/div>\nDavid Hoose studied composition at the Oberlin Conservatory with Walter Aschaffenburg and \u00a0Richard Hoffmann (student and amanuensis of Arnold Schoenberg), and at <\/span>Brandeis<\/span> <\/span>University<\/span> with Arthur Berger and Harold Shapero. His horn studies were with Barry Tuckwell, with Joseph Singer, principal horn of the New York Philharmonic, and with Richard Mackey of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His principal study of conducting was at the <\/span>Tanglewood<\/span> <\/span>Music<\/span> <\/span>Center<\/span>, where he studied with Gustav Meier and worked with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa.<\/span><\/div>\n