American Conductor Lawrence Golan to co-lead European Music Institute Vienna's new Laudon Opera Workshop

American Conductor Lawrence Golan

adds

European Music Institute Vienna to his posts

Will co-lead the Austrian Institute’s new

Laudon Opera Workshop & Performances Program

December 12, 2018 - Beginning this summer 2019, conductor Lawrence Golan will co-lead the 43-year old European Music Institute Vienna’s new 23-day program for young conductors and singers taking place July 23-August 14, 2019 at Vienna’s Schloss Laudon.

One of the world’s leading summer academies founded in 1975 as Wiener Meisterkurse by the late conductor Günther Theuring and renamed the European Music Institute Vienna (EMIV) in 2016, the Institute is proud to announce the first season of the Laudon Opera Workshop this summer 2019. An intense, concentrated, bespoke program for select talented young conductors and singers from around the world, the program is devoted to further developing the required skills of the artists’ respective fields under the mentorship of a world-class faculty, culminating in public performances.

“It is with pleasure that I welcome Maestro Lawrence Golan to the faculty of the European Music Institute Vienna,” stated Artistic Director and conductor Jörg Birhance. “A distinguished musician, his expertise in the conducting and scholarly fields will greatly benefit the young artists in the Laudon Opera Workshop. EMIV has its humble beginnings as a cooperative project between US university choirs and Viennese teaching staff 45 years ago. The Laudon Opera Workshop is a revival of this wonderful cultural exchange and I look forward to our work together.

"I'm thrilled and honored to be joining the faculty of this highly distinguished institution,” stated Mr. Golan. “Held in one of Austria’s most stunning baroque palaces, in Vienna, one of the classical music capitals of the world, there is not a more idyllic setting in which to study and perform this beautiful music. For young conductors studying opera, obtaining podium experience is always a challenge. This program offers a unique opportunity to actually conduct public performances of an operatic masterpiece before a discerning international audience, as well as study with experienced professionals. I look forward to working with the accomplished artist-colleagues and young musicians this summer.”

For the inaugural season, the program will present W. A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni, KV 527 in Italian. Two full casts and four conductors will be accepted to the program of intense acting workshops and musical rehearsals, culminating in four public semi-staged performances of the opera (each cast will perform two of the four performances) with orchestra ensemble "WienSinfonietta" in Freskensaal of Laudon Palace.

Applications for the Laudon Opera Workshop are now open. The application deadline is March 1, 2019. Information on the program and the Institute can be found at http://emi-vienna.com/en/laudon/

The brochure for the workshop can be downloaded here.

LAWRENCE GOLAN, CONDUCTOR

Acclaimed for his vibrant, inspired performances, and evocative command of different styles and composers, Lawrence Golan has conducted throughout the United States and in Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, El Salvador, England, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, and continues to develop relationships with orchestras nationally and abroad.

Music Director of Washington’s Yakima Symphony Orchestra, the Denver Philharmonic and Pennsylvania’s York Symphony Orchestra, Golan has developed a reputation as an imaginative programmer and dynamic, charismatic communicator, both on and off the podium. 2018-19 season guest engagements take him to Arizona, Hawaii, and Italy, and to Austria in summer 2019.

Recent season highlights included guest conducting debuts with Germany’s Bayerische Philharmonie, Mexico’s Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes, China’s Wuhan Philharmonic and the music festivals of Colorado and Batumi (Georgia, Eastern Europe); a 14-city tour of China with the Denver Philharmonic, and return engagements with Italy’s Orchestra Sinfonica Città di Grosseto, Tucson Symphony Orchestra and Portland Ballet Company. Golan is also Music Director of Colorado’s Lamont Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theatre at the University of Denver.

Mr. Golan records for Albany Records. His latest release is the 2018 world premiere Blu-ray disc and audio CD of composer Jiaojiao Zhou’s theatrical symphonic poem Ode to Nature with the Lamont Symphony Orchestra and producer Dennis Law. He has recorded three CDs with the Moravian Philharmonic: “Tchaikovsky 6 & Tchaikovsky 6.1” featuring the composer’s Symphony No. 6 and the recording premiere of Tchaikovsky 6.1 by Peter Boyer (commissioned by Golan); “Funky Little Crustaceans” featuring orchestral music by composer William Hill; and “Visions, Dreams & Memories” featuring flutist James Pellerite.

A staunch advocate for music education, Golan has been Director of Orchestral Studies and head of the graduate conducting program at the University of Denver since 2001, as well as Music Director of the University’s award-winning Lamont Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theatre. www.lawrencegolan.com

EUROPEAN MUSIC INSTITUTE VIENNA

EMIV aims to prepare students for the versatile and challenging future of the musician’s profession. Offering concentrated instruction in musical analysis, performance practice and the various criteria for evaluating compositions, The Institute is grounded in the belief that the key to understanding all musical styles and epochs of the international concert repertoire up to contemporary music can be achieved through the study and practice of the masterworks of the classic epoch of Viennese Classics, which, combined with theory and practice, can provide a full understanding of all parameters of a musical piece–and the skills to accomplish every style of art music.

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