Baltimore, MD. (Top40 Charts/ Baltimore Symphony Orchestra) The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is pleased to announce the launch of its fifth annual BSO Academy Week as well as a new Academy program specifically designed for aspiring and experienced music educators, the BSO
Music Educators Academy. From Saturday, June 14 through Saturday, June 21, 2014 instrumentalists from across the country are invited to rehearse and perform side-by-side with BSO musicians and
Music Director Marin Alsop in an intensive music "fantasy" camp. The BSO's Academy Week was notably featured in The New York Times and has become a popular destination for amateur musicians from across the country. From Monday, July 7 through Saturday, July 12, 2014 instrumental and vocal music educators will take part in the first-ever week-long orchestral immersion program playing side-by-side with BSO musicians and expert faculty to improve musicianship, performance technique, conducting skills, improvisation, arranging, practice techniques and ensemble skills. A distinctive professional development program, qualifying participants in the BSO
Music Educators Academy may obtain three graduate credits through the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Please see below for complete registration details.
The flagship of the BSO's lifelong learning curriculum, the Academy provides a variety of performing and learning experiences for adult musicians. New in 2014, the BSO Academy Week will launch a chamber music track designed to give participants a more personalized playing opportunity within two different chamber ensembles. The BSO will also accept pianists into the chamber music track. Repertoire for the chamber program will be determined based on applicant instrumentation. Participants in the orchestral track will rehearse and perform Dvořák's Carnival Overture; selections from Debussy's Iberia; Valse from Tchaikovsky's Suite from Swan Lake; Allegro energico, ma non troppo and Scherzo: Wuchtig from Mahler's Symphony No. 6, Tragic; and Reveries, Passions, Un Bal, Marche au Supplice and Songe d'un nuit de Sabbat from Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique under the baton of
Music Director Marin Alsop.
The BSO continues to foster the professional development of arts administrators through the arts administrator track. Launched in 2013, this program examines the Academy Week as an example for how an orchestra can engage its community in new and innovative ways. Participants will attend a series of professional development seminars, workshops and lectures by BSO staff and musicians on the various aspects of creating and managing a successful Academy program. The participants will observe and, as space allows, have the option to play in select Academy activities throughout the week. For more information, visit BSOAcademy.org.
The BSO
Music Educators Academy, Monday, July 7 through Saturday July 12, 2014, is a new initiative of the BSO in collaboration with UMBC. The BSO will offer instrumental and vocal participants the chance to improve musicianship, playing technique, conducting skills, ensembles skills, and improvisation through side-by-side rehearsal and performance with the BSO and a professional choir, led by Case Scaglione, assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, and a range of classes by expert faculty. Class topics include secondary instrument clinics, diction courses, piano classes, seminars in music technology and arranging, and a series of conducting workshops leading up to select participants conducting the BSO. Participants will play and sing Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, Selig sind, die da Leid tragen, Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras, Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen and Selig sind die Toten from Johannes Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, culminating in a performance at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
In addition to the BSO Academy Week and the BSO
Music Educators Academy, the year-round BSO Academy continuum includes:
Registration details for the programs above will be announced at a later date.
