An interactive session for teachers at all levels. Discover ideas and techniques to immediately apply to your classes, rehearsals, and performances. Learn skills that will save rehearsal time and add clarity and artistry to your musical ideas. Basic through advanced techniques will be covered. Bring your baton!
Glenn Price
- Biographical Information
Dr. Glenn D. Price has an international reputation as a leading conductor and educator, having conducted student, community and professional symphony orchestras and wind ensembles in over 30 countries.
He has appeared as featured conductor for organizations such as CBDNA, WASBE, ABA, The Midwest Clinic, MENC, and BASBWE. His comprehensive text on the art of conducting, titled The Eloquent Conductor (pub. GIA 2016), has earned highly positive critical acclaim.
A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he also studied at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Japan and the Tanglewood Music Center in the U.S., as well as in Europe and Russia. His numerous recordings are recognized as performance models and for expanding the repertoire.
His performing, teaching and conducting career has included full-time positions as Professor of Music (Emeritus) at the University of Calgary, as Director of Wind Studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), and currently as the Director of Performing and Visual Arts at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he conducts the Wind Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, he is the conductor of TEMPO, a professional contemporary chamber ensemble based in Los Angeles.
His service to the profession has included appointments as Artistic Director of the International Youth Wind Orchestra, Founding Conductor of the Orquesta Latinoamericano de Vientos (Wind Orchestra of Latin America), and election as President of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE).