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2016 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 participants and auditors represent 35 states and 5 countries
Columbus State University
4225 University Avenue
Columbus, Georgia 31907-5645
Mallory Thompson
Damon Talley
Jamie L. Nix
For Conductors of all levels
November 18 and 19, 2016
CONDUCTOR STATUS
•L
imited 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)
Four Scottish Dances—Malcolm Arnold
Colonial Song—Percy Grainger
Huldigungsmarsch—Richard Wagner, trans. Schaefer
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
Simon Holoweiko
[email protected]
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)
English Folk Song Suite—Ralph Vaughan Williams
Contre Qui Rose—Morten Lauridsen, trans. Reynolds
Variants on a Mediaeval Tune—Norman Dello Joio
CHAMBER WINDS (select one—any section or movement)
Divertissement, Mvt. 1 or 3—Emile Bernard
Canzon Quarti Toni a 15—Giovanni Gabrieli, ed. Crees (or other)
FRIDAY CONCERT PROGRAM (7:00 PM)
RICHARD WAGNER: Huldigungsmarsch
PERCY A. GRAINGER: Colonial Song
WILLIAM BOLCOM: Concerto Grosso for Saxophone Quartet
and Band (featuring the Donald Sinta Saxophone Quartet)
DAVID MASLANKA: Symphony No. 4
Faculty
Mallory Thompson is director of bands, professor of music,
coordinator of the conducting program, and holds the John W.
Beattie Chair of Music at Northwestern University. In 2003 she
was named a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching
Excellence. As the third person in the university’s history to
hold the director of bands position, Dr. Thompson conducts
the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, teaches undergraduate and
graduate conducting, and administers all aspects of the band
program. Thompson has recorded four albums with the Northwestern University
Symphonic Wind Ensemble on the Summit Records label.
Dr. Thompson received the Bachelor of Music Education degree and Master of Music
degree in conducting from Northwestern University, where she studied conducting
with John P. Paynter and trumpet with Vincent Cichowicz. She received the Doctor
of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with
Donald Hunsberger.
Dr. Thompson maintains an active schedule as guest conductor, conducting
teacher, and guest lecturer throughout the United States and Canada. She has
taught conducting to hundreds of undergraduate students, graduate students, and
professional educators. Dr. Thompson has served as a conductor or clinician at the
College Band Directors National Association regional and national conventions, the
Midwest Clinic, the Interlochen Arts Academy, numerous state music conventions,
and the Aspen Music Festival. In addition to conducting all-state ensembles
throughout the United States, she has had professional engagements as guest
conductor with the United States Air Force Band, the United States Army Band
“Pershing’s Own,” the United States Army Field Band, the United States Coast Guard
Band, the United States Navy Band, the West Point Band, the Dallas Wind Symphony,
Symphony Silicon Valley, the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, Monarch Brass
Ensemble, and Banda Sinfônica in Sao Pãulo, Brazil. Her professional affiliations
include Pi Kappa Lambda, the College Band Directors National Association, and the
American Bandmasters Association.
Damon Talley serves as Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music
at Louisiana State University School of Music, where he oversees all aspects of the
University Band Department, conducts the Wind Ensemble and teaches graduate
conducting. Prior to his appointment at LSU, he held the position of Director of
Bands at Shenandoah Conservatory, where he was responsible for guiding the wind
band program, conducting the EDGE New Music Ensemble, and teaching graduate
conducting. While at Shenandoah, he established the Mid-Atlantic Invitational for
high school students as well as the summer Conducting Symposium.
Talley was previously on the faculties at The University of Texas at Austin and the
University of Michigan. While in Michigan, he also served as Music Director and
Conductor of the Dodworth Brass Band, a professional brass ensemble based in Ann
Arbor, MI. Their recording, released on Best Classical Records, received favorable
reviews from publications including Gramophone magazine and the American Record
Guide. He has also served as producer or associate producer on several commercial
recordings by the Naxos, Klavier, Equilibrium, and Longhorn record labels, and is
published in the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series, distributed
by GIA Publications.
As an avid supporter of new music for the wind medium, Talley has conducted
numerous world premier performances and commissioned composers to write for the
wind band. He has won praise for his work by composers such as William Bolcom,
Kevin Puts, Donald Grantham, John Mackey, Carter Pann, and
Dan Welcher. While at Shenandoah Conservatory, along with
faculty colleague David T. Little, he hosted a visiting composer
series that brought composers of national and international status
to the campus. He is a strong advocate for young composers, and
regularly premieres works by student composers.
Prior to teaching at the university level, Talley taught in the
public schools in Texas at both the middle school and high school levels. He is a
strong supporter and advocate of music in the public schools, and has served as
guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator for festivals throughout the United States
and abroad. He earned the Master of Music degree in Wind Conducting from the
University of Michigan and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Wind Conducting
from The University of Texas. His principal conducting teachers are Jerry Junkin,
Michael Haithcock, and H. Robert Reynolds. Talley is an honorary member of
Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, and holds professional memberships in the
College Band Directors National Association, the Texas Music Educators Association,
the Virginia Music Educators Association, and the Louisiana Music Educators
Association.
Jamie L. Nix is director of wind ensemble activities and professor of conducting at
Columbus State University’s Schwob School of Music. Appointed in 2010, Professor
Nix conducts the CSU Wind Ensemble and Wind Orchestra. He coordinates
the graduate wind band conducting program, teaches advanced undergraduate
conducting, and hosts the annual CSU Conductors Workshop, now in its 19th
year. Previous posts include serving as associate director of bands and 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.
Under the direction of Dr. Nix, the nationally acclaimed CSU
Wind Ensemble has performed at the 2015 CBDNA National
Convention, 2012 CBDNA Southern Division Conference, and
the 2012 Georgia Music Educators Association State Conference.
Nix has recently served as conductor at the Alberta International
Band Festival, International Double Reed Society Conference,
International Trumpet Guild Conference, International
Trombone Festival Conference, Florida All-State Band, Music
For All Summer Symposium, the Cobb Wind Symphony, and numerous region and
honor bands and orchestras in the U.S. and Canada. Upcoming appearances include
the 2017 Virginia All-State Band, and the 2018 Salem-Kaiser All City Band in Oregon.
As an orchestral conductor, he has led performances with the CSU Philharmonic, was
music director and conductor of the Advanced Young Musicians String Orchestra in
Coral Gables, FL, and in 2008 participated in the two-week International Mahler/
Brahms Conducting Festival with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic in the Czech
Republic.
Nix, elected into the prestigious American Bandmasters Association in 2016,
holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the University of Miami
Frost School of Music (Gary Green), two Master of Music degrees, in trombone
performance and conducting, from the University of Michigan (H. Robert Reynolds),
and a Bachelor of Music Performance degree from Auburn University. Nix is a
conductor or producer on the following CDs: Atlanta Chamber Winds, Psychedelia
(James Markey, Boston Symphony bass trombone), A Beautiful Noise (featuring
trombonists Joseph Alessi, Charles Vernon, Paul Pollard, and others), 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 Klavier label in 2016.
Schedule
Registration Card 2016
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2016
You may register and pay by credit card online. Go to
http://music.columbusstate.edu/windensemble and select 2016
Conductors Workshop or use this registration form by regular mail.
3:45-4:30 pm
Open rehearsal with Mallory Thompson (LH)
4:30-5:15 pm
Open rehearsal with Damon Talley (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 19, 2016
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)
1:15-2:00 pm
Damon Talley presentation (ST)
2:00-2:45 pm
Mallory Thompson presentation (ST)
2:45-3:45 pm
Panel Discussion—Thompson, Talley, Nix (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)
* Meals (except Saturday snack) are not included in your fee.
There are several great restaurants within walking distance.
Restaurant guide is included in your packet.
* Visit music.columbusstate.edu/windensemble and click 2016
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)
Return this Registration Card with payment to:
2016 Conductors Workshop
Columbus State University • Schwob School of Music
4225 University Avenue • Columbus, Georgia 31907-5645
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