About this Event
The University of Indianapolis Wind Conducting Workshop 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
All participants will receive real-time training and feedback on your conducting technique while on the podium. All sessions will be recorded on video which participants will receive roughly a week after the workshop. Significantly, all participants will conduct the UIndy Symphonic Wind Ensemble in concert on Sunday afternoon. This public performance will also be recorded (video and audio) and may be used for audition purposes. We ask all participants to bring their instrument to the workshop and play in the ensemble when not conducting.
Prices for the 2027 UIndy Conducting Clinic are:
Participant Conductor - $350
Auditor - $50
College Student Observer - free
All participants are asked to choose and prepare four different pieces/movements to conduct. You will be sent a follow-up email once you register where you can submit your repertoire choices. Two of your choices will be the pieces you work on in your first two conducting sessions, the third is your suggestion of a possible piece to rehearse and conduct on the concert. The fourth is a backup for the concert. The repertoire for the workshop will include the following pieces, but is subject to change:
- Brahms/Buelmann, Blessed Are They
- Grainger, Australian Up-Country Tune
- Hanson, Chorale and Alleluia
- Hindemith, Symphony in B-flat mvmt 1
- King/Paynter, The Hosts of Freedom
- Margolis, Fanfare, Ode, and Festiva]
- Milburn, American Hymnsong Suite
- Nelson, Courtly Airs and Dances
- Reed, Armenian Dances Part 1
- Piunno, Bright Shadow Fanfare
- Sousa/Fennell, The Black Horse Troop
- Trad, arr Galvin, We Shall Overcome
- Ticheli, Nitro
- Thomas, A Mother of a Revolution
- Wooley, Divine
2027 UIndy Conducting Workshop Clinicians
Dr. Robert Taylor (guest clinician) is Professor of Conducting and Director of Bands at Northwestern University. As the fourth person in the university’s history to hold the Director of Bands position, Taylor conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting, and leads all aspects of the band program. With a career in music education spanning over thirty years, ensembles under his direction earned recognition by Downbeat Magazine, the Selmer Corporation, and Grammy Signature Schools.
Known for innovative and immersive concert programming, Dr. Taylor maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor and collaborator with such virtuosi performers and composers to jazz, pop, and crossover artists. He is a passionate advocate of music in the schools and in high demand as a festival adjudicator, rehearsal clinician, and guest conductor. His research on wind literature, rehearsal techniques, integration of cutting-edge technology, has been featured in presentations at regional, national, and international music conferences. He has contributed to numerous leading publications and is a co-author of The Horizon Leans Forward.
Taylor received the Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees in conducting from Northwestern University, where he studied with Mallory Thompson, and the Bachelor of Arts degree in Trumpet and Music Education from Humboldt State University.
Jun Märkl (guest presenter) serves as Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Taiwan Philharmonic (National Symphony Orchestra), and Chief Conductor of the Residentie Orkest, the Hague, Netherlands. He also serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the Oregon Symphony. Märkl regularly guest conducts the leading orchestras of North America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe and has conducted many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, and many others.
Märkl is a highly respected interpreter of the core German repertory and has become known for his refined and idiomatic explorations of the French Impressionists He studied in Munich with Sergiu Celibidache, at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. Mr. Märkl is highly dedicated to working with young musicians: for many years, he worked as Principal Conductor at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo and the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. He teaches as a Guest Professor at the Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, and in 2023, he founded the National Symphony Youth Orchestra of Taiwan.
Jon Noworyta (clinician and host) 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
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