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Guest Teaching Artist at Shepherd School of Music
Guest Teaching Artist for the Conducting Class at the Shepherd School of Music.
This week’s topics: “ How to start and end a piece?” Preparatory gestures, cut-offs, fermatas. & “ What to do with the other hand?” Cues, dynamics, reinforcement.
Clinician in Conroe
Guest Orchestra Clinician with the Grand Oaks High School Full Orchestra
Guest conducting the Grand Oaks High School Full Orchestra under the direction of Lea Cini and Josh High
Guest Teaching Artist at Shepherd School of Music
Guest Teaching Artist for the Conducting Class at the Shepherd School of Music.
This week’s topics: “ How to start and end a piece?” Preparatory gestures, cut-offs, fermatas. & “ What to do with the other hand?” Cues, dynamics, reinforcement.
Guest Teaching Artist at Shepherd School of Music
Guest Teaching Artist for the Conducting Class at the Shepherd School of Music.
This week’s topics: “ How to start and end a piece?” Preparatory gestures, cut-offs, fermatas. & “ What to do with the other hand?” Cues, dynamics, reinforcement.
Clinician in Conroe
Guest Orchestra Clinician with the Grand Oaks High School Full Orchestra
Guest conducting the Grand Oaks High School Full Orchestra under the direction of Lea Cini and Josh High
Conductor for Epiphany Benefit Concert
Epiphany Benefit concert with orchestra, Chorus, and soloists.
Soloists :
MET mezzo soprano, Hannah Jones
Grammy Award winner, Regina Belle
Grammy Award winner, Jonathan McReynolds
Staff Rehearsal Conductor with Houston Youth Symphony
Rehearsal conductor for the Houston Youth Symphony for their upcoming concert cycle. The symphony orchestra is under the direction of the HYS Artistic Director, Michael Webster.
Repertoire: TBA
2026 Head Faculty at Lima Conducting Workshop
The Lima Conducting Workshop is open to conductors from any level, age, nationality, with no restriction. Conducting faculty for the 2026 edition include and Nicholas Leh Baker (USA. and Rafael Reyes (Peru.)
Staff Rehearsal Conductor with Houston Youth Symphony
Rehearsal conductor for the Houston Youth Symphony for their upcoming concert cycle. The symphony orchestra is under the direction of the HYS Artistic Director, Michael Webster.
Repertoire: TBA
Staff Rehearsal Conductor with Houston Youth Symphony
Rehearsal conductor for the Houston Youth Symphony for their upcoming concert cycle. The symphony orchestra is under the direction of the HYS Artistic Director, Michael Webster.
Repertoire: TBA
Clinician in Cy-Fair
Guest Orchestra Clinician with the Cypress Lakes High School Orchestra.
Guest conducting the orchestras at Cypress Lakes High School orchestra program under the direction of Mc Adams Irubor.
Guest Teaching Artist at Shepherd School of Music
Guest Teaching Artist for the Conducting Class at the Shepherd School of Music.
This week’s topics: “ How to start and end a piece?” Preparatory gestures, cut-offs, fermatas. & “ What to do with the other hand?” Cues, dynamics, reinforcement.
Staff Rehearsal Conductor with Houston Youth Symphony
Rehearsal conductor for the Houston Youth Symphony for their upcoming concert cycle. The symphony orchestra is under the direction of the HYS Artistic Director, Michael Webster.
Repertoire:
De Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos
Ginastera: 4 Dances for Estancia
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole, M.54
Guest Teaching Artist at Shepherd School of Music
Guest Teaching Artist for the Conducting Class at the Shepherd School of Music.
“ What information can we transmit? Tempo, meter, style and MORE!!
Conducting Faculty at DMICS
Lead Conducting Faculty for the composition students DMICS
The Del Mar International Composers Symposium (DMICS) exists to encourage the sharing of new musical ideas between composers, performers, and the community, and to present the best new concert music from around the world in the City of Del Mar. In particular, the Del Mar International Composers Symposium is designed to allow composers and performers a space to collaborate intimately on the creation and presentation of new works, while inviting the public to experience that process first-hand. DMICS seeks to make the creative process accessible and tangible to the community through open rehearsals, concerts, and question and answer sessions with the symposium participants.
Topics include “ Decomposing the score.” & “How to turn score study into gesture.”
Conducting four new opera scenes by compositional faculty and assisting in recordings of student compositions.
Repertoire: Coming soon.
For more info visit https://www.delmarcomposers.org/
Houston Conducting Academy
Houston Conducting Academy in Spring, TX.
The Houston Conducting Academy is an immersive conducting 4-day workshop experience.
HCA designed for emerging conductors, music educators, and beginners.
June 9th - 12th, 2025
Masterclasses at University of Kansas School of Music
Guest teaching masterclasses to the conducting studio at the University of Kansas.
Topics: “ How to dive in deep in score score study” and “Turning scores study into gesture.”
Lab repertoire: Brahms Symphony no. 2
Guest Teaching Artist at Shepherd School of Music
Guest Teaching Artist for the Conducting Class at the Shepherd School of Music.
“ Putting it all together” Part 2
Repertoire: Beethoven: Symphony no. 1
Guest Teaching Artist at Shepherd School of Music
Guest Teaching Artist for the Conducting Class at the Shepherd School of Music.
“ Putting it all together” Part 1
Repertoire: Beethoven: Symphony no. 1
Clinician in Conroe
Guest Full Orchestra Clinician with the Grand Oaks High School Orchestra Program
Guest conducting the Grand Oaks High School Full Orchestra under the direction of Lea Cini, Micheal Cassagrande, and Mike Flake.
Clinician in Conroe
Guest Full Orchestra Clinician with the Grand Oaks High School Orchestra Program
Guest conducting the Grand Oaks High School Full Orchestra under the direction of Lea Cini, Micheal Cassagrande, and Mike Flake.
Guest Teaching Artist at Shepherd School of Music
Guest Teaching Artist for the Conducting Class at the Shepherd School of Music.
“I’ve got rhythm? - Rhythmic stability and mixed meters.”
Clinician in Klein
Guest Orchestra Clinician with the Krimmel Intermediate School Orchestras
Guest conducting the Krimmel Intermediate School Orchestras under the direction of Tiffany Webb & Stephen Cook.
Repertoire:
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Clinician in Sugarland
Guest Orchestra Clinician with the Grand Oaks High School Full Orchestra
Guest conducting the Grand Oaks High School Full Orchestra under the direction of Marea Franklin
Repertoire:
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 (Selections)
Balmages: Ice Sculptures
Tchaikovsky: Marche Slav
Clinician in Klein
Guest Orchestra Clinician with the Krimmel Intermediate School Orchestras
Guest conducting the Krimmel Intermediate School Orchestras under the direction of Tiffany Webb & Stephen Cook.
Repertoire:
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Clinician in Conroe
Guest Orchestra Clinician with the Grand Oaks High School Full Orchestra
Guest conducting the Grand Oaks High School Full Orchestra under the direction of Lea Cini, Micheal Cassagrande, and Mike Flake.
Guest Teaching Artist at Shepherd School of Music
Guest Teaching Artist for the Conducting Class at the Shepherd School of Music.
“How do you make it better? - Rehearsal technique, strategy, and psychology.”
Clinician in Cy-Fair
Guest Orchestra Clinician with the Cypress Lakes High School Orchestra.
Guest conducting the orchestras at Cypress Lakes High School orchestra program under the direction of Mc Adams Irubor.
Guest Conductor with Campanile Orchestra
Guest Conducting Campanile Orchestra rehearsal for the April concert.
Repertoire: Beethoven Symphony no.5 | all movements
2025 Lima Conducting Workshop
The Lima Conducting Workshop is open to conductors from any level, age, nationality, with no restriction. Conducting faculty for the 2025 edition include and Nicholas Leh Baker (USA. and Rafael Reyes (Peru.) Special guests this year include Eduardo Mognaschi, clarinetist and Juan Juárez.
Guest Conducting Orquesta Sinfónica Infanto Juvenil de Jaén
Guest conductor at the 1st Taller Orquestra Internacional en Jaén, Peru.
The Orquesta Sinfónica Infanto Juvenil de Jaén is under the direction of Maestro Mindor Vargas.
Repertoire: Music by Mozart, Haydn, Holst and traditional Peruvian music