Tataki
01-31-2008, 02:55 PM
The 2008 International Saito Conducting Workshop will be held at the University of Saskatchewan from July 20 to 27, 2008. The workshop empowers participants to use gestures to express their musical ideas with artistry and precision. Participants have unanimously endorsed the workshops, claiming that the method provides for the accelerated development of conducting skills in a thoroughly musical context enhanced by a positive and constructive atmosphere.
Details are posted at http://conductorschool.com/course.html
Enrollment is limited so that everyone gets abundant podium time. Six of the dozen spots in the workshop have already been assigned.
The workshop will be instructed by Wayne Toews in collaboration with Bonnie Nicholson and Dianne Gryba. Mr. Toews studied the method with Prof. Morihiro Okabe in Tokyo and worked with Prof. Okabe, Fumi Torigai and Kazuyoshi Akiyama to prepare the English edition of the Saito Conducting Method textbook. He made presentations about the method at the Conductors Guild convention in New York and the MidWest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. More than 100 conductors have studied the method with him. The 2007 workshop included a former member of the New York Philharmonic, two university music professors, three military band conductors, directors of school and community choirs, bands and orchestras and university students. The four previous workshops have attracted students from Malta, Kuwait, England and many places in the United States and Canada. Comments from former students are posted at http://conductorschool.com/scrapbook.html Seiji Ozawa says of his teacher, "Prof. Saito's teachings are so comprehensive and yet so fundamental that they embrace and enrich all possible conducting styles."
Please direct questions to info@conductorschool.com or call 306.373.6408
Details are posted at http://conductorschool.com/course.html
Enrollment is limited so that everyone gets abundant podium time. Six of the dozen spots in the workshop have already been assigned.
The workshop will be instructed by Wayne Toews in collaboration with Bonnie Nicholson and Dianne Gryba. Mr. Toews studied the method with Prof. Morihiro Okabe in Tokyo and worked with Prof. Okabe, Fumi Torigai and Kazuyoshi Akiyama to prepare the English edition of the Saito Conducting Method textbook. He made presentations about the method at the Conductors Guild convention in New York and the MidWest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. More than 100 conductors have studied the method with him. The 2007 workshop included a former member of the New York Philharmonic, two university music professors, three military band conductors, directors of school and community choirs, bands and orchestras and university students. The four previous workshops have attracted students from Malta, Kuwait, England and many places in the United States and Canada. Comments from former students are posted at http://conductorschool.com/scrapbook.html Seiji Ozawa says of his teacher, "Prof. Saito's teachings are so comprehensive and yet so fundamental that they embrace and enrich all possible conducting styles."
Please direct questions to info@conductorschool.com or call 306.373.6408