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Twelfth Annual University of Montana
Orchestra Festival
November 1-3, 2009

We are thrilled to announce our Guest Clinicians for this year:

Louis Bergonzi and Terry Shade

Louis Bergonzi is Professor of Conducting and Music Education (Instrumental: Strings) at the University of Illinois, where he specializes in conducting and string education/pedagogy and is Music Director/Conductor of the University Philharmonia. Prior to his 2005 appointment at Illinois, he was on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music for 17 years. While at Eastman he was Director of the Rochester-Eastman String Partnership Urban Project, a multifaceted program for preparing studio and group string teachers for work in urban settings. He is a Past-President of the American String Teachers Association and was string specialist and orchestra conductor for the Lexington (Massachusetts) Public Schools. He teaches each summer at the Illinois Orchestral Conducting Workshop with Don Schleicher.

Active as a clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor of youth orchestras throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia. He has written for the American String Teacher, the NSOA Newsletter, and the Journal of Research in Music Education. He is co-author of Effects of Arts Education on Participation in the Arts (National Endowment for the Arts, 1996) and of Teaching Music Through Performance in Orchestra, Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (GIA, 2002/2003/2007). His Rounds and Canons for Strings: Shaping Musical Independence is published by Kjos Publishers.

Terry Shade is a nationally recognized Middle School/High School Orchestra Specialist whose past orchestra programs have been selected to perform at the Southern Division Music Educator’s National Conference, the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago and the Atlanta International Band and Orchestra Conference.  Following these performances, she was featured in the Instrumentalist Magazine discussing effective teaching methods and practices.  After teaching for ten years in Atlanta, Georgia, she moved to Las Vegas, Nevada to continue her career in the Clark County School District.  She was a director of the Las Vegas Youth Orchestras for six years while there. Ms. Shade worked as a Project Facilitator with the district, mentoring a huge staff of orchestra teachers (approximately 80 teachers) and performing supervisory duties for the Secondary Fine Arts Department.  Under her supervision, the Clark County Orchestra Program experienced huge growth and national recognition.  She received a state award for her work with the Las Vegas teachers; The Steve Maytan Contribution to Education Award was presented to Terry at the NMEA Conference in 2004. In the past several years, Ms. Shade was invited to conduct Jr. High All-State Orchestras and Honor Orchestras in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Oregon and Nevada.   Terry contributed a chapter in the new ASTA Publication String Teaching in America: Strategies for a Diverse Society about her experiences teaching orchestra in at-risk schools throughout her career.  Her professional affiliations include Music Educator’s National Conference and ASTA.  She received her Music Ed degree from Loyola University in New Orleans, studying string pedagogy with retired Professor Dean Angeles.  She currently resides in Seattle, Washington with her husband and two children where she is continuing to be active as a conductor and clinician. She teaches Middle School Orchestra at Issaquah Middle School in the Seattle area.

The University of Montana Orchestra Festival is open to all high school and middle school orchestras.  Monday will be reserved for high school orchestras; Tuesday will be open to middle school orchestras and any high school orchestras who cannot attend on Monday.

 

Schedule of Activities

Sunday, November 1

4:00-6:00          Open Rehearsal: UM Symphony Orchestra in the University Theatre                            

Monday, November 2

Between 8:00-5:00, your students will participate in the following activities:

Perform for and be critiqued by Mr. Bergonzi or Ms. Shade

Your orchestra will perform for up to 30 minutes on the stage of the University Theatre.  You will receive a CD of the performance as you leave the stage.  Immediately following the performance, your ensemble will move to the Music Recital Hall where one of our outstanding clinicians will work with your ensemble for another 30 minutes. 

Upper Strings, Cello, and Bass Clinics

Dr. Margaret Baldridge (violin/viola), Prof. Fern Glass Boyd (cello), and Mr. Don Beller (bass) will lead separate workshops on technique and performance issues that are unique to their instruments.

Opportunity to watch other orchestras perform

7:30      UM Symphony Orchestra Concert

Monday's schedule will be available closer to the date of the Festival.

Tuesday, November 3

The schedule will be the same as Monday, without the concert in the evening.

Tuesday's schedule will be available closer to the date of the Festival.

Any questions may be directed to Dr. Luis Millán at luis.millan@umontana.edu

 

The University of Montana Orchestra Festival application form.