Monteux School To Present Winter Workshops & Showcase Concerts

Following 75 years of summer seasons of training conductors and orchestra musicians in Hancock, Maine, the Monteux School and Music Festival is proud to announce the first New York City Monteux Winter Workshops and Showcase Concerts, featuring the School's Music Director Maestro Michael Jinbo, on January 2-5, 2019 at the Good Shepard-Faith Presbyterian Church, 152 W. 66th St, New York, NY.

Maestro Jinbo will conduct Appalachian Spring for 13 instruments by Aaron Copland, and will give masterclasses with six top conductors on Beethoven's Symphony no. 7 and Brahms' Serenade no. 1, with the Monteux Heritage Orchestra, including players from the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Broadway, and others. Monteux School alumni conductors will also conduct in concert, works by J.S Bach, Haydn, Saint-Saëns, Eflrida Andrée and Matilde Capuis. Funding for these events comes in part from the Women's Philharmonic Advocacy Group and from employees of Renaissance Technologies, Inc. and their corporate match program.

The workshops run from Wednesday, January 2 through Saturday, January 5, with a special concert on Friday, January 4, at 7:30 p.m.

Program Schedule of Public Events:

Wednesday, January 2 at 3:30 p.m.

Masterclass with Maestro Jinbo and workshop conductors:

Beethoven Symphony no. 7. Tickets are $25 and available only at the door; Students are free with valid ID.

Thursday, January 3 at 11 a.m.

Masterclass with Maestro Jinbo and workshop conductors:

Brahms Serenade no. 1. Tickets are $25 and available only at the door; Students are free with valid ID.

Friday, January 4 at 7:30 p.m.

Showcase Concert:

Bach Brandenburg Concerto no. 4 with Uli Speth, violin, Marisela Sager and Allison Kiger, flutes; Haydn Overture Il mondo della luna, both conducted by David Alexander Rahbee; Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto no. 2 with Christopher Johnson, piano, conducted by Michael Shane Wittenburg; Andante quasi recitativo by Elfrida Andrée and Concentus Brevis by Matilde Capuis, with oboe soloist Gerard Reuter, presented thanks to a grant from the Women's Philharmonic Advocacy Group, and both conducted by Reuben Blundell; and

Copland Appalachian Spring for 13 instruments, conducted by Michael Jinbo. Tickets are $25 and available only at the door; Students are free with valid ID.

Saturday, January 5 at 7:30 p.m.

Workshop Conductors' Concert: Conductors TBA

Beethoven Symphony no. 7; Brahms Serenade no. 1

Tickets are $25 and available only at the door; Students are free with valid ID.

For more information, visit https://monteuxschool.org/winter-concerts-conducting-workshop/.