CODA Northeast Regional Conference

February 24 & 25, 2007

State University of New York at Binghamton

Guest speaker: Maestro Jose-Luis Novo

"One of Spain's most exciting young conductors!"

SPECIAL VISITOR: Dorothea Nelhybel

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

Saturday, February 24

9 AM Registration (snacks provided by SUNY Binghamton)

10 AM        Main Stage

                  featuring: The CODA NE Combined Orchestra!

                  Tim Perry: Welcome and Introduction

Conducting Session I:

Conductor/School Affiliation/Composer/Title of Work/Movement

10:10: Tim Perry, Binghamton University: Bruckner: Symphony No. 4: Scherzo

10:35  Anthony Holland, Skidmore College: Holst: Planets: Mars

11:00  Jon Mitchell: University of Massachusetts Boston: Holst: Planets: Venus

11:25  Jim Barnes: Moravian College: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2, "Little Russian" (1872): IV. Finale. Moderato assai

11:50 Session I ends

12:00-1:15 PM Lunch: CODA NE GENERAL MEETING (box lunch)

1:30-3:10PM Conducting Session II:

Conductor/School/ Composer/ Title of work/Movement:

1:30  Willis Rapp, Kutztown University: Stanford: Symphony No. 4, Mvt. 4

1:55  Jiang Liu, University of Dayton: Chen Yi: “Momentum” (1998)

2:20  David Ramuel, Hofstra University; August DeBoeck: Dahomeyan Rhapsody

2:45  Eric Culver, College of The Holy Cross: Nehlybel: Music For Orchestra

3:10 Session II ends

3:15-5:00PMMaster Classes for Students (Winds/Strings)(rooms: TBA)

5:00PM Dinner & Round Table Discussions

         student dinner on campus (Pizza party!)(Conductors: dinner in town)

6:30PM Guest Students depart campus

8:00 PM CONCERT: Binghamton Philharmonic: Maestro José-Luis Novo

         featuring the big band group “DIVA”

         CODA members: ticket price included in conference fee (Conference fee: $25)

Sunday

Special Visitor: Dorothea Nelhybel

9:30-11:25 AM:  Location: TBA Sessions/Presentations/Panels

        

9:30  Jon Mitchell: University of Massachusetts Boston: “Unknown Holst”

9:55: Jiang Liu: University of Dayton: “20th Century American-Chinese Composers’  Master Orchestral Works”

10:20: Patricia Sparti: Gardner-Webb University : Orchestral Concertos of Vaclav Nelhybel”

10:45: Panel Discussion: “Guiding the Development of Would-be Conductors”

                  Panel Members:

                           Panel Chairman: Dwight Oltman: Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory

                           Eric Culver, College of the Holy Cross

                           David Ramael: Hofstra University

                           Willis M. Rapp, Kutztown University   

11:30 AM-12:30PM Bowing Presentation for Conductors

12:30PM Lunch: Guest Speaker: Maestro Jose-Louis Novo

                 (short walk from Arts Complex)

2PM Conference End.

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See below for photos and video from our 2005 CODA NE Conference at Hamilton
College (NY):

Conference registration fee: $25

For more information or to volunteer to help at the conference, please contact:

Prof. James Earl Barnes
Director of Instrumental Music
Moravian College
1200 Main Street
Bethlehem, PA 18018
610-861-1672
610-861-1657 (Fax)
barnesj@moravian.edu

or

Dr. Anthony G. Holland
Associate Professor of Music
Skidmore College
President: College Orchestra Director's Association NE Division

tholland@skidmore.edu

Tel/Fax: 518-587-6103

 

 

 

Northeast Division Conference

Hamilton College, February 12 & 13, 2005

Click here to download a PDF of the program

Click Here to download Part I video (Quicktime: 6 min, 19.3 Mb)

Click Here to download Part II video (Quicktime: 6 min 11.5 Mb)

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