Larry Rachleff, Music Director of Rhode Island Philharmonic and Music director of Rice University's Shepherd School Orchestra.

at Cornell University and Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

April 24 - 29, 2012

Five days of classes, April 24-29, 2012. Participants should plan on committing to the entire duration of the class. Date of arrival in Ithaca will be the afternoon of April 24 and departure on April 29.

The workshop will include score study sessions, conducting sessions with two pianos, conducting sessions with string quartet and piano, and conducting sessions with Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra and Cornell Symphony Orchestra. All sessions will be videotaped. 

Eight conductors will be chosen to be active conductors and up to eight additional conductors will be selected to be auditors.

Active Participants will be given approximately 50 minutes of podium time with the two orchestras and 60 minutes of podium time in sessions with two pianos (2 sessions) and string quartet and piano (2 sessions). 
In addition, Active participants will conduct a movement of a symphony chosen by the faculty in the final concert.

Repertoire:

L.V. Beethoven Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”

Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 in Bb Major, Op. 100


Application procedure and fees:

Ithaca conducting masterclasses online application form.
  (Link to online form)        

The receipt deadline for the application (including application fee) is February 15, 2012

Please note that all checks should be made payable  to Cornell Music Department.

Application fee: $30

Participant fee: $1250

Auditor fee: $250

The participant fee or auditor fee does NOT include travel, housing, or meals. Local transportation will be provided.

Acceptance will be announced via email by March 1, and the deadline for payment will be March 15.  No refunds will be given after this time.

The workshop fees are due upon notice of acceptance to the workshop. The fee will act as a deposit to
reserve each Participant/Auditor’s place in the workshop.


Application Deadline: February 15, 2012 (Receipt Date).

Payment Deadline: March 15, 2012

Please note that all checks should be made payable  to Cornell Music Department.

Send payment to:

Dr. Jeffery Meyer
Ithaca College School of Music
953 Danby Road
Ithaca, New York, 14850-7240, USA


Faculty

LARRY RACHLEFF

Professor of Music and Music Director, Shepherd School Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, 2003-04 is Larry Rachleff’s eighth season as Music Director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic. This is his twelfth season as Professor of Conducting and Music Director of Rice University’s Shepherd School Orchestras in Houston and his eleventh as Music Director of Chicago’s Symphony II, an orchestra made up of members of the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra. Mr. Rachleff has appeared as guest conductor with such prestigious orchestras as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In 1993 he was selected as one of four American conductors to lead the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall under the mentorship of Maestro Pierre Boulez.

Mr. Rachleff is a former faculty member of Oberlin Conservatory where he served as Music Director of Orchestras and Conductor of the Contemporary Ensemble. He also served as the Conductor of the Opera Theater at the University of Southern California. In 1988 Mr. Rachleff served as the Music Director of the highly acclaimed American-Soviet Youth Orchestra tour. He has conducted and presented master classes at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Poland, the Zurich Hochschule for Music and Theater and the Sydney and Queensland, Australia Conservatory Orchestras. He is in constant demand as a conductor and master class clinician and is frequently invited to lead the very finest American Conservatory Orchestras, most recently that of the Juilliard School. He has spent his summers guest conducting at Aspen, Tanglewood, the National Camp at Interlochen, the Music Academy of the West and the National Repertory Orchestra and has led the Camerata Australia on a tour of Japan.

This past summer he served in his third season as Music Director of the Sunflower Music Festival in Kansas. A champion of public school music education, Mr. Rachleff has conducted All-State orchestras and festivals in virtually every state of the United States, as well as in Europe and Canada. His college conducting career began at the University of Connecticut and continued at The University of Michigan. He has presented weeklong residencies at several leading universities and music schools, and he has served as conducting teacher for the American Symphony Orchestra League, the Conductors’ Guild and the International Workshop for Conductors in the Czech Republic. As an enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music, Mr. Rachleff has collaborated with several composers including Samuel Adler, Luciano Berio, George Crumb and John Harbison. Mr. Rachleff’s conducting reviews are impressive.

The Boston Globe, in a review of the Rhode Island Philharmonic’s Boston debut concert in June 2000, wrote, “Rachleff himself . . . is an important asset. He seems to relish the most complicated score and brings a nice sense of clarity and panache to the performance.” The Chicago Tribune’s most recent review of Mr. Rachleff stated, “He integrated his frequent tempo adjustments into seamless paragraphs and textures so clean that inner voices projected clearly. . . .” The Houston Chronicle hailed his last concert with the Houston Symphony as a “wonderful, polished performance . . . conducted with beauty and insight.” He is married to soprano Susan Lorette Dunn.


Conducting Workshop schedule
(Subject to Change--please check upon arrival)

Day 1 Tuesday, 4/24
14:00 - 14:45    Participants arrive (introductory meeting Hockett Green room IC)

15:00 - 17:00    2 piano session on Beethoven (Room 2330 in IC) 
                           4  conductors (30 minutes each)
15:00 - 15:30    conductor 1
15:30 - 16:00    conductor 2
16:00 - 16:30    conductor 3
16:30 - 17:00    conductor 4

17:10 - 16:40    rehearsal with orchestra - ICCO, Beethoven  (Presser Rehearsal Hall)
                            4 conductors (20 minutes each)
17:10 - 17:30    conductor 2
17:30 - 17:50    conductor 3
18:00 - 18:20    conductor 4
18:20 - 18:40    conductor 1

Day 2  Wednesday, 4/25
10:30 - 12:30    2 piano session on Prokofiev (Presser Rehearsal hall) 
                            4  conductors (30 minutes each)
10:30 - 11:00    conductor 5
11:00 - 11:30    conductor 6
11:30 - 12:00    conductor 7
12:00 - 12:30    conductor 8

lunch on own
 
14:00 - 16:00    Rachcleff conducts an open rehearsal on excerpt from
                          Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet, Suites nos. 1 & 2 (Ford hall at IC)

15:50 - 16:25    travel time from IC to CU

16:40 - 18:25    rehearsal with orchestra  - CSO on Prokofiev, (Bailey Hall, CU)
                            4 conductors (25 minutes each)
16:45 - 17:10    conductor 6
17:10 - 17:35    conductor 7
17:35 - 18:00    conductor 8
18:00 - 18:25    conductor 5

dinner on own

Day 3  Thursday, 4/26
13:00 - 15:00       2 piano & string quartet session on Beethoven Presser Hall 
                           4 conductors (30 minutes)
13:00 - 13:30      conductor 7
13:30 - 14:00      conductor 8
14:00 - 14:30      conductor 5
14:30 - 15:00      conductor 6

16:15 - 17:45      rehearsal with orchestra - ICSO on Beethoven FORD Hall, IC

    4 conductors (20 minutes each)

16:15 - 16:35       conductor 8
16:35 - 16:55       conductor 5
17:05 - 17:25       conductor 6
17:25 - 17:45       conductor 7

18:05 - 18:45    Larry Rachleff rehearsal, Mahler Adagietto with Cornell Chamber Orchestra, Barnes Hall, CU

19:30 - 20:30      Larry Rachleff Fireside chat at Hans Bethe House, CU

Day 4 Friday, 4/27
11:00 - 13:00       2 piano session on Prokofiev Barnes Hall
                           4 conductors (30 minutes)
11:00 - 11:30      conductor 3
11:30 - 12:00      conductor 4
12:00 - 12:30      conductor 1
12:30 - 13:00      conductor 2

14:00 - 16:00 Optional Rehearsal Observation
Ithaca College symphony Orchestra rehearsal in preparation for
Sunday, April 29 at 4:00
Annual Concerto Concert
Daniel Koontz: Heavy Rotation (2012) World Premiere
Tomasi: Concerto for Saxophone 
   Christopher Miley, alto saxophone    
Lalo: Cello Concerto in D Minor, I. Prélude: Lento - Allegro maestoso
   Peter Volpert, cello    
Liszt: Totentanz
   Sean Cotty, piano
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
   from Suite No. 2 
   1. The Montagues and the Capulets 5'
   2. Juliet—The Young Girl 4'
   7. Romeo at Juliet's Grave 6'
   from Suite No. 1
   7. The Death of Tybalt 4'

2:00 Presser (Koontz, Prokofiev)
3:00 Ford Hall (Concertos)


16:30 - 18:30       rehearsal with orchestra - CSO on Prokofiev B20 of Lincoln Hall

    4 conductors (25 minutes each)

16:35 - 17:00       conductor 4
17:00 - 17:25       conductor 1
17:30 - 17:55       conductor 2
17:55 - 18:20       conductor 3

8 pm Attend CCS concert Australian Chamber Orchestra concert in Bailey Hall with Soprano Dawn Upshaw

Day 5  Saturday, 4/28
13:00 - 15:30    Dress rehearsal at Presser Rehearsal Hall, IC
Day 6 Sunday, 4/29
10:30 - 12:30   Brunch at Banfi’s at Statler Hotel, Cornell

Participants depart


All programs subject to change

version December 21, 2011