Harold Rosenbaum Choral Conducting Institute Workshop – October 8 in New York, New York

For Immediate Release

Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting

516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net

The next 2017 Harold Rosenbaum Choral Conducting Institute workshop will be held at Nola Studios, 244 W. 54th St., 11th floor, studio D in New York, New York on Sunday, October 8 from 2 to 5 PM. Registration will close on Friday, October 6 at 5:00 pm.

Dr. Rosenbaum will bring multiple copies of a number of pieces, and will discuss the conducting challenges in each. Then, the group will do the actual conducting gestures of those spots. Participants are welcome to bring their own scores with questions they have.

Harold Rosenbaum is the only living choral conductor to have received the prestigious Ditson Award, bestowed annually since 1945 by Columbia University.  Choral conductors Robert Shaw and Gregg Smith were the other choral conductors to receive it. Other conductor recipients include Leonard Bernstein, James Levine, Alan Gilbert, Robert Spano, Mstislav Rostropovich, Eugene Ormandy, Lukas Foss, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Leopold Stokowski.

Tuition for the October 8 workshop is $75. For registration, please visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3102454.

 For more information, email Harold at haroldrosenbaum@gmail.com.

See www.haroldrosenbaum.com/ for information about his upcoming 5-day workshops.

Dr. Harold Rosenbaum, recipient of the 2014 Ditson Conductor’s Award from Columbia University, is the founder and conductor of the New York Virtuoso Singers and the Canticum Novum Singers. He is also founder of Virtuoso Choral Recordings. He is the 2010 winner of ASCAP’s Victor Herbert Founders Award and the winner of the 2008 American Composer Alliance’s Laurel Leaf Award, given in recognition of “distinguished achievement in fostering and encouraging American music.”
 
A strong proponent of and advocate for contemporary composers and American composers in particular, Rosenbaum has commissioned 99 works, and has conducted more than 540 World Premieres. Visit him at http://www.haroldrosenbaum.com.

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