David Loebel, Associate Director of Orchestras, NEC College
YPO Conductor for Spring 2012
Rehearsals:
Saturday, 3:10–6:00 p.m. in Brown Hall
YPO 2011-2012 Concerts Include:
September 11, 2011, 2 p.m., Jordan Hall.
January 20, 2012, 8 p.m., Jordan Hall.
May 15, 2012, with the Boston Ballet School, Boston Opera House
June 1, 2012, 8 p.m., Jordan Hall
Music Director Search Process:
During the spring of 2012, the YPO will host seven outstanding conductors who will lead rehearsals, take part in Q & A sessions, be interviewed by a distinguished search committee, and visit the NEC at Walnut Hill program in a process leading to the selection of Music Director of the YPO and artistic director of the Walnut Hill music program. The successful candidate will be announced in June and assume the podium in fall 2012.
After several months of screening candidates, the search committee identified the following seven finalists: José-Luis Novo, Steven Jarvi, Larry Loh, Adam Glaser, Matthew Hazelwood, Amy Andersson, and George Stelluto.
Maestro Novo is the first candidate to take part in the finalist auditions, and will be on campus February 10—11. (See his biography below). With the YPO, he will work on the third movement of the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 and the first movement of the Beethoven Symphony No. 7. Subsequent candidate auditions happen during the month of April. The schedule: April 7—Steven Jarvi, Lawrence Low; April 14—Adam Glaser, Matthew Hazelwood; April 21—Amy Anderson; April 28—George Stelluto.
Prior to each visit, the candidate’s curriculum vita and photo will be posted on this page along with repertory to be performed. Throughout each audition, YPO students and parents will have several opportunities to get better acquainted with and to register their reactions to the conductor candidates including:
• Paper questionnaires that can be filled out during the audition
• Question and Answer sessions with the candidates
• A post-audition online questionnaire via Surveymonkey.com
• Two student representatives on the search committee
In addition, each candidate’s audition will be video-recorded for reference.
Biographies
José-Luis Novo
Maestro José-Luis Novo was appointed music director and conductor of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra in 2005, and has been the music director and conductor of the Binghamton (New York) Philharmonic Orchestra since 2003. Prior to these appointments, he served as Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under the direction of both Music Director Emeritus Jesús Lopez-Cobos and former Music Director Paavo Järvi, and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra under the late Erich Kunzel.
Some of the ASO's highlights during Maestro Novo's tenure include a national broadcast on NPR's Performance Today, a 2008 ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award, and the recent release of the ASO's first commercial CD commemorating the 300th anniversary of the signing of Annapolis' Royal Charter. Additionally, the organization Meet the Composer granted the ASO a two-year Music Alive Residency (2011-2013) with Latin Grammy Award-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank, and the League of American Orchestras recognized the ASO's potential and selected it nationwide as one of only five participants in the Institutional Vision Leadership Initiative two-year seminar (2005-2007).
Recent and upcoming guest conducting engagements include appearances with the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Silicon Valley, the Baltimore Symphony; the Minnesota Orchestra; the Syracuse, Modesto, Windsor, Stamford, and Tallahassee symphonies; the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra; the Cleveland and Abilene Philharmonics; the Tenerife, Principado de Asturias, and Castilla y León symphony orchestras; the City of Granada Orchestra; the Andrés Segovia Chamber Orchestra at the National Auditorium in Madrid.
While maintaining a promising professional conducting career, Mr. Novo has also developed a reputation as a keen educator of young musicians. He has held the positions of Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Miami University Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor of the National Repertory Orchestra, and Assistant Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain and the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Since 1999 he has been the Resident Conductor at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina. In addition, he has conducted many noteworthy college and youth orchestras. Among these are the Curtis Institute Orchestra, the University of Maryland Symphony, the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, and the Portuguesa State Youth Orchestra of the Venezuelan El Sistema.
As a violinist, Mr. Novo has appeared in concerts and recitals in Europe and in the United States and has made recordings for the Spanish and Norwegian national radios. He is a founding member of several important ensembles in which he has held leading positions: as concertmaster and soloist with the Youth Chamber Orchestra of Spain, as principal second violin of the New Amsterdam Sinfonietta, and as concertmaster of the National Youth Orchestra of Spain.
A native of Spain, José-Luis Novo began his musical studies at the Conservatory of Valladolid, his hometown, obtaining the degree of Profesor Superior de Violín with honors in solfege, harmony, and violin. A scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Culture allowed him to continue his studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, where he earned a first prize in violin. In 1988, he came to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar, obtaining both Master of Music and Master of Musical Arts degrees from Yale University, where he was also awarded the Frances G. Wickes Award and the Yale School of Music Alumni Association Prize. In 1992, the Spanish foundation La Caixa awarded him a fellowship to study at the Cleveland Institute of Music where he completed a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting. He concluded his conducting studies at the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music. His conducting teachers have included Gerhard Samuel, Carl Topilow, Louis Lane, Edmon Colomer, James Ross, and Charles Bruck (at the Pierre Monteux School in Maine).
Steven Jarvi
Described as an “eloquent and decisive” conductor by the Wall Street Journal and praised for his “uncommonly expressive and detailed” performances by the Miami Herald, Steven Jarvi is recognized as one of Americas fastest rising conductors with an equal passion for the concert hall and the opera house. Mr. Jarvi is the Music Director of Winter Opera Saint Louis and returns to the Kansas City Symphony for his fourth season as Associate Conductor. Recently the winner of the Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Award, he came to Kansas City after several years as the Conducting Fellow with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony in Miami Beach and as an Associate Conductor for the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center.
As Associate Conductor, Mr. Jarvi leads the Kansas City Symphony in over 30 concerts each season including their Family, Young People’s and Pops concerts, Handel's Messiah, selected classical performances and the popular Symphony in the Flint Hills. In his first season, he made his Classical Series debut after filling in on short notice for Music Director Michael Stern in a program featuring violinist Midori. Jarvi returned the following season, after studying with principal members of the Vienna Philharmonic thanks to the support the Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Career Grant, with a highly praised weekend of Viennese music featuring pianist, Simone Dinnerstein.
At the age of 21, Steven traveled to Austria at the invitation of Claudio Abbado to observe and study with the maestro and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Salzburg Easter Festival. He was later selected by former New York Philharmonic Music Director, Kurt Masur, to appear on a concert with Masur at the Manhattan School of Music as part of a week-long master class. In 2005, as the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, Steven was one of two conductors selected to study under Boston Symphony and Metropolitan Opera Music Director, James Levine, and conducted critically praised performances with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and the Mark Morris Dance Group.
As a performer of new music, he has collaborated with many celebrated composers including Philip Glass, Henri Dutilleux, John Adams, John Zorn, Augusta Read Thomas, Steven Mackey, Adam Schoenberg, Jennifer Higdon and Leon Kirchner, has conducted at Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music, and has lead performances at New York City Opera’s annual VOX Festival Showcasing American Composers. A frequent conductor with the New World Symphony, Steven has shared subscription concerts in Miami with Michael Tilson Thomas, Roberto Abbado, Marin Alsop, Mark Wigglesworth and Alasdair Neale, conducted on the NWS Charles Ives: In Context Festival and lead their Concerts for Kids and Symphony with a Splash.
Upcoming and recent engagements include the Rochester Philharmonic, Windsor Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony, East Texas Symphony Orchestra and Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, Germany. Mr. Jarvi has also served as a cover conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Concert Hall and conducted the Helsinki Philharmonic as a competitor in the 3rd Sibelius International Conducting Competition in Helsinki, Finland.
Mr. Jarvi was the first conductor ever invited to be a member of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at the Kennedy Center’s Washington National Opera, a position he was personally selected for by Plácido Domingo. Recent engagements include a Virginia Opera production of Orphée by Phillip Glass, Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Ashlawn Opera Festival and La Boheme with Winter Opera Saint Louis.
Raised in Grand Haven, Michigan, Steven Jarvi holds a Bachelor's degree in Music Theory from the University of Michigan where he studied with Kenneth Kiesler, Martin Katz and Jerry Blackstone, along with a Master's in Orchestral Conducting from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Gustav Meier.
Lawrence Loh
Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic and Music Director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Loh is one of the most exciting young talents on the classical music scene today. He was brought to national attention in February 2004 when he substituted last minute for an ailing Charles Dutoit with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conducting Stravinsky’s Petrouchka and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, Loh received enthusiastic acclaim from orchestra players, audience members and critics, alike.
Since his appointment as Music Director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic in 2005, the orchestra has flourished artistically, defining its reputation as one of the finest regional orchestras in the country. His leadership has attracted such artists as André Watts, Anne Akiko Meyers, Jon Nakamatsu, Zuill Bailey and Sharon Isbin. A champion of early childhood exposure to music, Loh created a family concert series that is dedicated to the youngest of audiences. He is very active in the region as an arts leader and music advocate, and is constantly in demand as a guest speaker and clinician.
As Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Loh works closely with Music Director Manfred Honeck and conducts a wide range of concerts including classical, educational and pops. He is active in the PSO’s Community Engagement and Partnership Concerts, extending the PSO’s reach into other communities. Recent notable concerts with the Pittsburgh Symphony include performances of Dvorak’s Seventh Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Fourth Symphony and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony on a concert featuring violinist Sarah Chang. He made his debut on the main classical series conducting Handel’s Messiah in December 2008. As the conductor of the enormously popular Fiddlesticks Family Series “Bringing Music to the Lives of Children,” Lawrence Loh plays the part of host and conductor. In addition to his duties on the podium, he is an audience favorite in the PSO’s Concert Preludes lecture series, edits radio broadcasts, and makes many public appearances. His association with the PSO began as Assistant Conductor in 2005-2006. He was promoted to Associate Conductor in 2006-2007 and to Resident Conductor in 2007-2008.
Lawrence Loh’s recent guest conducting engagements include his debut with the Seoul Philharmonic and a return engagement with the Dallas Symphony. Other recent guest conducting appearances include the Malaysian Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony and the San Angelo Symphony. He has conducted the symphony orchestras of Portland, Cedar Rapids, Colorado Springs, East Texas, Fort Collins, Fort Worth, Lubbock, Plano, Shreveport, Sioux City, Spokane and Tallahassee among others. He has also led Korea’s Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Binghamton Philharmonic, the Yale Philharmonia, Omaha Area Youth Orchestra, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Dallas Chamber Orchestra. His summer appearances include the festivals of Bravo Vail Valley, Breckenridge, Las Vegas and Hot Springs, the Kinhaven Music Academy, the Performing Arts Institute (PA) and the Carnegie Mellon Summer Strings Camp.
Lawrence Loh held the positions of Assistant and Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony from 2001-2005. He led the Dallas Symphony in a variety of classical and educational programs throughout each season including classical subscription. Prior to his Dallas appointment, he was appointed by Music Director Marin Alsop to be Associate Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. From 1998-2001, he conducted more than 50 concerts annually, including classical subscription, pops, education, family and outreach programs. While in Denver, he was also Music Director of the Denver Young Artists Orchestra, the premiere youth orchestra in the Colorado Rocky Mountain Region. Additionally, Mr. Loh served as the Interim Director of Orchestras and Head of the Orchestral Conducting Program at Denver University’s Lamont School of Music in 2000-2001.
In May 1998, Lawrence Loh received his Artist Diploma in Orchestral Conducting from Yale University, also earning the Eleazar de Carvalho Prize, given to the most outstanding conductor in the Yale graduating class. During his years at Yale, he was chosen to be the Assistant Conductor of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra and Apprentice Conductor of the Hot Springs Music Festival. He received further training at the world-renowned Aspen Music Festival and School and has additional degrees from Indiana University and the University of Rochester. A dedicated teacher, Mr. Loh held the position of Associate Instructor in Music Theory at Indiana University and, later, that of Teaching Assistant at Yale University in Advanced Hearing, Conducting and Orchestration. He was also the Guest Curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science for “What Makes Music?” an interactive exhibit, offering the opportunity to explore the science of music and sound, as well as the role of music in culture.
Loh was born in southern California of Korean parentage and raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He and his wife Jennifer have a son, Charlie, and a daughter, Hilary.
Adam Glaser
With a growing reputation for his innovative programming, charismatic personality on and off the podium, and profound commitment to arts education and community engagement, Adam Glaser is one of the most promising young conductors on the music scene today. Now in his 13th season on the conducting faculty of the Juilliard School Pre-College Division, Mr. Glaser leads the esteemed Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra, a professional-caliber ensemble that performs regularly at New York’s Lincoln Center. He also serves as Chair of the division’s Conducting Department. In addition, Mr. Glaser is the Resident Principal Conductor of the Usdan Center for the Arts on Long Island, NY, where he recently directed Metropolitan Opera soprano Monica Yunus, Tony Award-nominated dancer Ashley Tuttle, and Usdan’s orchestra, chorus and dance company in a gala performance of selections from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
Mr. Glaser has received awards from the Hermitage Artist Retreat, where he will be an artist-in-residence in 2012 and 2013, and the American-Austrian Foundation, whose Karajan Fellowship for Young Conductors sponsored his residency at the Salzburg Festival and the Vienna Philharmonic’s Attergau Orchestra Institute.
Guest conducting appearances include performances with the Victoria Symphony (BC), the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, along with the orchestras of the Curtis Institute of Music, the University of Michigan, the New York Summer Music Festival, the New England Music Festival, and the Connecticut All-State Music Festival. Passionate about opera and vocal music, Mr. Glaser served as Music Director for the Curtis Opera Theater’s production of La Tragédie de Carmen (Bizet/Constant), earning critical praise for leading the orchestra in “a sinewy and carefully balanced sound” (Philadelphia City Paper). He conducted the Oregon Bach Festival’s orchestra and chorus as part of a master class with Helmuth Rilling, and studied the operas of Rossini with Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy.
An established composer, Mr. Glaser has enjoyed performances of his works by over 20 major orchestras throughout the U.S. and Canada, including the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, along with the orchestras of Toronto, Phoenix, Utah, New Mexico, Long Island, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Illinois, Victoria (BC), Richmond, South Bend, Toledo, Regina (SK), Naples, the University of Michigan, Central Washington University, Cornell University, William and Mary, and Stanford University. His recent works include two commissions: Launch, a concert piece for orchestra and chorus commissioned and premiered by the Lake Forest (IL) High School Orchestra and Chorus, and a new arrangement of Hatikvah (Israel’s national anthem) for string orchestra and children’s chorus, commissioned by the Usdan Center. Active as a jazz pianist and songwriter, Mr. Glaser regularly performs originals and standards with Phil Orch Jazz, the renowned jazz group comprised of members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and continues to compose and produce contemporary songs for recording artists.
A former marketing executive and consultant to Fortune 500 companies, Mr. Glaser maintains a keen interest in commercial music, audio branding and the use of music and sound throughout the business world. In 2007, he established Glaser Music, Inc. (GMI), which specializes in the creation of original music for film, television, advertising, corporate/retail and new media.
Mr. Glaser earned a diploma in orchestral conducting from the Curtis Institute of Music, a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School Pre-College Division in composition, and a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Additional studies include piano performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and composition at the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division.
Matthew Hazelwood
Matthew Hazelwood has established, over two decades of distinguished conducting in both the professional and educational fields, a unique reputation in the USA as well as overseas, for his individual professional skill, passionate advocacy for young musicians, and visionary arts leadership.
After an acclaimed fifteen year tenure as Music Director of the Interlochen Arts Academy orchestra, in June of 2008 Matthew was named Artistic Advisor/Principal Conductor for the Batuta National Youth Orchestra program of Colombia, an "El Sistema"-inspired program that now reaches nearly 50,000 young musicians in over 135 centers across Colombia. Subsequently, in January of 2011, Maestro Hazelwood was named Artistic Director and Conductor of the newly-founded Colombian Youth Philharmonic (FJC) a major international performance initiative for top Colombian orchestral musicians between 16 and 25 years of age. This year, the FJC will be featured in a program recorded in Bogota by From the Top, the first time this widely recognized NPR program has traveled overseas to record a program. The FJC will soon announce its complete 2012-13 activities, including two international tours and performances with major international soloists. Along with his many conducting activities in Latin America, Matthew also continues his position as Music Director of the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra located near his home in northern Michigan.
At the age of 21, after studies in Percussion, Conducting, and Piano at the Mannes College of Music in New York City, Hazelwood was appointed timpanist of the National Symphony of Colombia, a position he held for over nine years. He developed many conducting projects in addition to his performing, and served as Choir Master for the National Opera for five seasons, and was responsible for musical preparation (accompanist, chorus master, assistant conductor) for over thirty different operas. His recent return to extensive activity in Colombia, after his tenure at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, is in many ways, a return to early professional musical roots. Hazelwood also holds a MA degree from Michigan State University in Conducting, with a minor in Piano Performance.While at the Interlochen Arts Academy, Hazelwood developed a broad spectrum of engaging programs and a rigorous, nurturing educational philosophy towards working with talented young musicians as they prepare themselves for future careers inmusic. In this position, Hazelwood worked with many hundreds of students, many of whom are to be found in important positions throughout the musical world.
In addition to his work with youth orchestras, Maestro Hazelwood has devoted much of his career to the development of community orchestra ensembles, creating unique opportunities for local musicians of varied backgrounds the experience of professional music-making. He currently serves as Music Director of the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra, a regional professional ensemble based in Northern Michigan, and Hazelwood has an ongoing position as Principal Guest Conductor for the Heart of England Orchestra based in Leicester, England. Previously, for his previous distinguished work over thirteen years as Music Director of the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Hazelwood was named Music Director Emeritus.
Hazelwood has led major concerto performances with many distinguished artists including Misha Dichter, Sarah Chang, Russell Sherman, Jerome Lowenthal, Ida Kavafian, Leon Bates, Janos Starker, Miles Hoffman, Hilary Hahn, Orli Shaham, Eugene Fodor, Awadagin Pratt, Christopher Taylor, Ralph Votapek, Steve Doane, Melissa White, Christopher O'Riley and Dudley Moore.
A native of New York, Maestro Hazelwood holds an MA from Michigan State University in Conducting, with a minor in Piano Performance. He completed his advanced musical studies at the Mannes College of Music where he studied percussion with Howard van Hyning (NYC Opera) and Walter Rosenberger (NY Philharmonic), conducting with Richard Westenburg, theory and analysis with Carl Shachter, Edward Aldwell, and Ernst Oster, and piano with Emile Harris. In subsequent years, he studied privately with Lukas Foss, Helmuth Rilling and with Enrico Pessina at the La Scala Opera house in Milan.
Amy Andersson
Recognized for her dedicated work with young musicians, Ms. Andersson has conducted orchestras both in the U.S. and Europe. She has led tours and guest conducted the top European youth orchestras, including the Brandenburg Youth Orchestra, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Bundesjugend Orchestra, Spanish National Youth Orchestra (JONDE) and Jeunesses Musicales (World Youth Orchestra). Ms. Andersson's many engagements have included a five week tour with the Jeunesses Musicales to Germany, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia. Live televised concerts in Belgrade, Sarejevo, and the World Youth Orchestra's debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus International Bach Fest concluded their critically acclaimed tour. She also led a production of La Traviata in Weikersheim, Germany with JONDE, which also toured to Perlada, Spain.
Ms. Andersson has held the posts of Guest Professor of Conducting at the Berlin Hochschule der Kunste, as well as Music Director posts of the CPE Bach High School Arts Academy in Berlin, Weikersheim Opera Festival and High Plains Youth Symphony (Colorado). Her guest conducting engagements include the Niederrheinische Symphoniker, LOH Orchestra in Sonderhausen, Berliner Symphoniker at the Philharmonie, Giessen Symphoniker, Hart School of Music Orchestra (Connecticut), Aalborg Symphony Orchestra (Denmark), Rheinsberg Chamber Opera Festival, Madedonian Philharmonic (Skopje), Colorado Music Festival, Colorado Light Opera and regular guest appearances in the German operas houses of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, National Theater of Mannheim, and Stadttheater Aachen.
Ms. Andersson began piano studies at an early age and received her B.M. from the University of Michigan, with studies in piano, conducting and composition, followed by a Master's degree in conducting at the Mannes College of Music in New York. She was awarded a conducting Fellowship to the Aspen Music School and her teachers have included Yakov Kreizberg, Paul Vermel, Gustav Meier, Murray Sidlin, and David Zinman.
George Stelluto
American conductor George Stelluto is acclaimed for his compelling, inspired performances of repertoire ranging from the Baroque to present day. As Resident Conductor of the Juilliard School, Music Director of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Conductor of the Ravinia Festival, and advisor to Sinfonia por La Vida in Ecuador, he has established himself as a versatile conductor comfortable in many styles and genres.
In 2011, Stelluto made critically acclaimed debuts with the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Germany. Maestro Stelluto’s other recent guest appearances include: The Juilliard Orchestra, Ukrainian National Orchestra, New York City Ballet, Transylvania State Philharmonic (Romania), Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Nevada Symphony Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble, Alea III, and Juilliard’s “Beyond the Machine” Festival and AXIOM Ensemble.
The conductor made his Avery Fisher Hall debut with the Juilliard Orchestra in May 2008 and his international debut was at the Kiev International Music Festival in 2000 where he gave the Ukrainian premiere of Samuel Barber’s Second Essay for Orchestra. Subsequent acclaimed premieres there include William Schuman's Symphony #5, Barber’s First Essay, and Ewazen’s Chamber Symphony. He also worked extensively with the Central Conservatory Orchestra in Beijing as part of the conducting staff for The Juilliard Orchestra's 2008 tour of China and for the school’s 2005-2006 100th Anniversary Tours of Europe and America - premiering Senderovas’ Fanfare at the Berlin Konzerthaus. Past Music Director positions for Mr. Stelluto include the Las Vegas Music Festival (1998-2007) and Inter-School Orchestras of New York (2008-2010).
In performance, reviews, interviews, and recordings, George Stelluto has been featured in print, radio, and television throughout the Americas and Europe. He has collaborated with solo artists such as Sarah Chang, Hilary Hahn, Edgar Meyer, Heidi Grant Murphy, and Samuel Ramey, actors Kate Mulgrew and Isaac Mizrahi, and many young rising stars such as Conrad Tao and Sirena Huang. His numerous contemporary premieres include works by Philippe Bodin, Virko Baley, Huang Ruo, Paul Desenne, and Theodore Antoniou.
Beyond his conducting interests, Maestro Stelluto is also involved in cultural advocacy, arts education, and arranging. The Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, and the Juilliard Orchestra have performed his orchestral reduction of Schreker’s overture to the opera Die Gezeichneten. His reduction of the entire opera was premiered by the Los Angeles Opera in April 2010 and is published by Universal Edition, Vienna. His reduction of Grosz’ Afrika Songs was premiered this past summer at the Ravinia Festival. He has published several co-authored articles on leadership (Leadership Quarterly, 2004) and given presentations about conductors as leadership models for business organizations. He has served as a board member and consultant to many American and international arts organizations and delivered speeches throughout the United States and Europe on “Building Cultural Infrastructure”©; a presentation on ensuring the future of the Arts.
A member of Juilliard’s College and Pre-College faculties, George Stelluto has worked with the Orchestral, Dance, Vocal, and Jazz divisions at Juilliard, as well as The Juilliard Pre-College Symphony (PCS), for over five years. His performances with PCS are a regular feature on WQXR, New York. He also regularly prepares the Juilliard Orchestra for esteemed guest conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez, Michael Tilson Thomas, James Conlon, and Andre Previn. Dedicated to outreach, he just finished a two-year collaboration with the Inter-School Orchestras in concerts combining New York’s public and private school musicians with students from the Juilliard School, Columbia University, and members of the Vienna Philharmonic.
George Stelluto is Juilliard’s only Artist Diploma recipient in conducting. He also holds two Master's Degrees (Violin & Conducting) from the Yale School of Music and a Bachelor’s Degree in Violin from West Virginia University, summa cum laude. He has participated in many summer festivals both as a conductor and chamber musician, including Ravinia, Aspen, Peter Britt, Focus!, Kiev International, and Ukrainian Summer. His teachers include James DePreist, Otto-Werner Mueller, and Eleazar DeCarvalho. He is the recipient of the Nevada Regents Creativity Award and the Bruno Walter Memorial Fellowship to Juilliard.
Founded in 1962, the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra (YPO) is the senior orchestra at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. The YPO is composed of accomplished young musicians between the ages of 12 and 18 who are selected annually from over 400 applicants.
Fifteen international concert tours have enriched audiences on four continents and established YPO as one of the finest youth orchestras in the world. Most recently, it traveled to Eastern Europe in June 2011. In 2007, it traveled to China. YPO has been invited and sponsored by such prestigious organizations as the Friendship Ambassador Foundation, Korean Broadcasting Service, Pacific Cultural Foundation, Mozarteum Argentino, and BankBoston. It has also performed some of the finest concert halls of the world, including Vienna’s Musikverin and Prague’s Rudolfinum, three sold-out performances on the subscription series of Santiago, Chile’s Teatro Municipal, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the Teatros Muncipal of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The orchestra has also performed on several occasions in Venezuela, as guests of El Sistema.
In 1998, the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra was invited to participate in the 2nd National Youth Orchestra Festival sponsored by the American Symphony Orchestra League. The festival brought together 450 of the country’s most accomplished young instrumentalists to study under the guidance of an esteemed faculty. Selected from a national pool of applicants through a rigorous two-part audition process, only five of this country’s leading youth orchestras were chosen.
WGBH-TV, Boston’s public television station, has produced two documentary films of the orchestra’s tour of Chile. The one-hour documentary film, A New World of Music, produced by Concert Productions, Inc. from the 1995 tour of Chile and Argentina, was nominated for an Emmy Award and has aired nationally on public television. The CD recordings of YPO have received acclaim from Classic FM Magazine, Fanfare Magazine and the American Record Guide in which the playing of the Dvorak New World Symphony was lauded as “unbelievable in its conviction and communication.” The American Record Guide concluded: “Listen to the New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and you will know there is hope for the future. The kids of the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra are remarkable. But don’t take my word for it—hear it for yourself.”
Past 2010-2011 Concerts Included:
December 15, 2010, Jordan Hall
June 3, 2011, Jordan Hall
June 16, 2011, Dvorak Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
June 17, 2011, 7p.m. Smetana Open Air Opera Festival
June 19, 2011 Slovak Radio Concert Hall, Bratislava, Slovakia
June 20, 2011, 6pm Jihlava Mahler Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
June 22, 2011, Krems, Austria
June 23, 2011, 7:30p.m. Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
Listen to YPO's June 4, 2010 Concert recorded live in Jordan Hall - use redemption code NECBZ64 for downloads.
How do I Audition for YPO?
Auditions for the YPO take place on a yearly basis in May. Students take a Large Ensemble audition. Qualified students are then invited to play in a final round of YPO callback auditions before being accepted into the orchestra. Students can sign up online for May 2012 auditions starting March 15, 2012. Information about fall auditions can be found at the following link:
Additional Audition Information
Technical requirements: for highly advanced string, woodwind, brass and percussion players. Admission to YPO is extremely selective. Students placed in YPO generally play at a level which will guarantee them admission to selective conservatories. Younger college-age players are sometimes invited to fill vacancies due to the absence of qualified pre-college players.
How do I request to be absent from a YPO rehearsal?
Please print and hand-in an Absence Request Form to YPO manager or Concert Ensemble Manager, Rebecca Bogers. Requests need to be submitted at least two weeks before the date of absence. We urge you to submit requests as soon as you know about them so that there is plenty of time for them to be approved.
You may also fax your form in to
(617) 585-1135
or snail mail to:
NEC Preparatory School
Attn: YPO
290 Huntington Avenue
Boston MA 02115-5018
You may also email a letter of request to the YPO manager.
NOTE: You will receive an email from the YPO manager when your absence has been approved.
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