UIndy Wind Conducting Workshop

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15 participant conductors will be accepted. Early bird price availble until 12/1

The University of Indianapolis Wind Conducting Workshop (2/7-2/9) is designed to give inspiring, hands-on experience to conductors of diverse skill levels - college students, music educators, professional, or community musicians. Our philosophy is to help you achieve your next level of musical artistry by encouraging you through your conducting. If you come with an open mind and open heart, you will have a transformative experience. This is not an introductory workshop, some experience (basic undergraduate conducting, minimum) is required.

Overview: All participants will receive real-time training and feedback on your conducting technique while on the podium. All sessions will be recorded on video by the UIndy Music Tech department and saved to a Google Drive folder after the completion of the workshop. You will receive a link to your videos roughly a week later. Additionally, on Friday night, a professional photographer will be taking candid photos of all participants when you are on the podium. These will be shared in a Google Drive Folder as well. Additional presentations will be given by the clinicians and members of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra are a part of the weekend. This year's repertoire focuses on traditional repertoire for high school and collegiate ensembles. In a future email, you will be asked to choose four pieces from the repertoire list to conduct. Two of your choices will be the pieces you work on in your first two conducting lab sessions; one piece should be one that you know well and another should be a stretch for you. The third is your suggestion of a possible piece to rehearse and conduct on the concert and the fourth is a backup for the concert. In order to accommodate everyone's choices, it is important that everyone choose 4 DIFFERENT pieces. Your selections may be specific movements from a larger multi-movement piece.

Friday 2/7:

6:00  - 9:00  pm

Saturday 2/8:

8:00 am - 12:00 pm and 2:00 - 6:00 pm 

Sunday 2/9:

Dress rehearsal: 11:00 - 1:30  pm

Concert 3:00 - 5:00 pm

Repertoire

Barnes, Yorkshire Ballad

Bruckner, Apollo March

Ives, Variations on America

Jolley, Ash

Jager, Third Suite

LaPlante, American Riversongs

MacBeth, They Hung Their Harps in the Willows

Piunno, Be Still and Still Moving

Schuman, When Jesus Wept & Chester Overture

Shostakovich / deMeij, Waltz from the Jazz Suite

Ticheli, Shenandoah

Vaughan Williams, Sea Songs

Additional Information:

Instruments: Participants should plan to bring their instrument to the workshop and play in the ensemble during the podium sessions when not conducting. Participants will have the option of playing in the ensemble for the concert, but it is not required. 

Concert: All participants will conduct the UIndy Symphonic Wind Ensemble in concert on Sunday afternoon. This public performance will be recorded (video and audio) and may be used for audition purposes. You have permission to list yourself as a “Guest Conductor” for this performance in your biography, but we request that you also include the clause “as part of the UIndy Conducting Workshop” for clarification. 

Testimonials

"The UIndy Conducting Workshop was a wonderful experience and I learned so much each day, whether the instruction or feedback was meant for me or not. This was the first conducting workshop that I have attended, and as nervous as I was, the clinicians and other attendees made me feel welcome and comfortable. It was a phenomenal learning environment where we were all able to try new things and take risks. I will absolutely be returning in future years, and look forward to learning even more!"

"The UIndy Conducting Workshop was the best experience I could've asked for and sets a very high standard for this type of event. The sessions, podium opportunities, and clinicians were top-notch and I will definitely be keeping a keen eye on any announcements they'll have in the future!"

"This was my first conducting symposium experience, and I cannot think of a better introduction to these workshops than the event put on by the University of Indianapolis. Dr. Noworyta cultivated a welcoming and supportive environment which allowed each participant the opportunity to be musically expressive and experimental with new gestural ideas. I look forward to future workshops hosted by UIndy."

has enjoyed a forty-three-year career teaching and conducting throughout the United States and around the world. Most recently, he served as director of bands at the University of Illinois, where he served from 2015 until his retirement in 2022. At Illinois, he conducted the Illinois Wind Symphony, led the graduate wind conducting program, taught courses in wind literature, and guided all aspects of one of the nation’s oldest, largest, and most storied band programs. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Illinois, he served as director of bands at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York for seventeen years. From 1988–1998, he served as associate director of bands at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Peterson was also conductor of the renowned Northshore Concert Band. He held positions as associate and interim director of bands at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas and has several years of successful teaching experience in the public schools in Arizona.

The first to receive the doctor of music degree in wind conducting from Northwestern University, Peterson earned master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Arizona State University. In 2012, he was awarded the prestigious Ithaca College Faculty Excellence Award, recognizing his contributions to Ithaca College. His ensembles have appeared before national conventions of the American Bandmasters Association (three times), the College Band Directors National Association (twice), the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, the American School Band Directors Association, and at Chicago’s Orchestra Hall and Lincoln Center in New York City.

is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Bands, Instrumental Activities, and Educational Outreach at the University of Indianapolis (UIndy). There, he administers all aspects of the woodwind, brass, and percussion area, teaches basic and advanced conducting, courses in music education, and conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Pep Band, and opera. A versatile conductor who is equally comfortable with orchestras as well as wind and brass groups, Noworyta is the Director of the Crossroads Brass Band of Indianapolis, IN, the Artistic Director of the Queen City Freedom Band (Cincinnati), and the former Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Prior to UIndy, Noworyta was a twenty-plus year veteran public school music educator. Ensembles under his direction have performed at local, state, national, and international venues including the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the Music for All National Concert Band Festival, Chicago's Symphony Center, the Kennedy Center, at various European venues, and most notably Carnegie Hall. Noworyta holds degrees from Baldwin-Wallace College (BME), Northwestern University (MM), and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (DMA). Additional studies in conducting have taken place at the Eastman School of Music, the New England Conservatory, and the Juilliard School.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Christel De Haan Fine Arts Center, 1400 East Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, United States