Second Annual Rose City International Conductor’s Workshop

Kenneth Woods, conductor

June 22-25, 2006, Portland, Oregon

The Rose City Chamber Orchestra, the Pacific Northwest’s Player Run Professional Chamber Orchestra, is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the Second Annual Rose City International Conductor’s Workshop. Details on the workshop, repertoire, application forms, tuition information and payment options can all be found on the workshop website, www.rosecityworkshop.org. The deadline for early registration tuition rates is February 10^th, 2006.

Returning faculty include workshop director Kenneth Woods, Principal Guest Conductor of the Rose City Chamber Orchestra and a regular guest of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Christopher Zimmerman, Music Director of the Symphony of Southeast Texas and Director of Orchestral Studies at the Hartt School of Music. They are joined by leading conductor and pedagogue David Hoose, director of the orchestra program at Boston University and former Music Director of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra.

The inaugural workshop in August 2005 attracted applicants from throughout the US and Argentina, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Mexico, Japan, Spain and South Korea. In addition to standard orchestra and chamber works, the Rose City workshop features a special emphasis on opera conducting and accompanying, and this year’s workshop offers all invited participants a chance to conduct excerpts from Bizet’s Carmen with professional singers, as well as sessions on Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations. Each participant gets to conduct in five teaching sessions and a final concert, and all sessions are professionally video taped. Every student gets to work on every piece, and every student gets to work with every teacher.

The mission of the Rose City International Conductor’s Workshop is to provide professional training at the highest level to emerging conductors from all over the world, regardless of age or affiliation. We welcome applications from young conductors just beginning their lives in the field and from experienced professionals who seek a fresh perspective on their work.