 INTERNATIONAL CONDUCTORS GUILD SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE 2025 String & Orchestra Educator’s
LOCATION: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville FACULTY:
Dr. Sandra Dackow Sandra Dackow holds three degrees from the Eastman School of Music and was most recently Music Director of the Hershey Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania, the Hershey Symphony Festival Strings, and the William Paterson University Symphony Orchestra in New Jersey. An Aspen Conducting fellow, she was awarded the Silver medal in the 2001 Vakhtang Jordania/New Millennium Conducting Competition in Ukraine. Dr. Dackow has published over 100 works for student orchestras and is an author of Alfred’s Orchestra Expressions, Tempo Press’s Expressive Techniques for Orchestra, and a co-author of the MENC (NAfME) Complete String Guide. Dr. Dackow has appeared as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator throughout the US and abroad, including summers at Interlochen, and other music camps. Sandra Dackow is a former President of the Conductor’s Guild (now the International Conductors Guild) an international organization serving conductors in 31 countries. In 2009 she was elected a Lowell Mason Fellow by MENC: The Association for Music Education, as well as awarded the Bruno Walter Best Conductor Prize by the Master Academy International Competition in Switzerland.
Michael Mishra is currently Director of Orchestral Studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He has conducted worldwide, performing with the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Sofia, the Arpeggione Kammerorchester in Austria, the Orquesta Sinfonica Uncuyo in Argentina, the Saratov Philharmonic in Russia, the Kharkov Philharmonic in Ukraine, and the Karlovy Vary Philharmonic, Hradec Kralove Philharmonic, and at the Silesian State Opera in the Czech Republic. In 2004, he conducted the Daegu City Symphony in the premiere performance by a Korean orchestra of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 2. Following this performance, the Yeong-Nam Daily wrote: “With flowing tempi and natural control of rubato, [Mishra] brought out beautifully the elaborate dialogues in Bruckner’s complexly woven collection of melodic lines. Maestro Mishra combined delicate analysis with musical charisma.” In 2003, Michael was awarded First Prize at the Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition in Ukraine. He was also a semi-finalist at the 2015 Blue Danube Opera Conducting Competition in Bulgaria. In the field of opera, Michael has conducted productions of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Midwest Lyric Opera), Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado and Gounod’s Faust (Winter Opera St. Louis) and concert productions of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana. He has served on the faculty of the Conductors Guild’s Conducting Workshops for String Educators and has twice been invited as a guest lecturer in conducting at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston. He currently serves on the board of the Illinois Council of Orchestras, where he heads the Conducting Mentorship program, and the International Conductors Guild. Michael’s major research interest is the music of Shostakovich. His analytical volume, A Shostakovich Companion, has been acclaimed in Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. He has also given papers on Shostakovich’s 7th Quartet, the cantata The Execution of Stepan Razin, the song cycle Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarotti, the first version of the 9th Symphony, and Shostakovich’s reorchestration of Schumann’s Cello Concerto. THE SCHEDULE: 4.00pm Introduction to workshop 9:30am - 11:00am Conducting Session 2 (with string quintet) – Group A 11:00am - 12:20pm Conducting Session 4 (with string quintet) – Group B WORKSHOP REPERTOIRE: Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, movements 1 and 2 Tchaikovsky: String Serenade, movement 3 Soon Hee Newbold: Perseus Mahler: Symphony No. 1, movement 2 (arr. Sandra Dackow, published by Tempo Press) Continuing Education Units from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Conductors at all levels are welcome. TO APPLY: We ask all applicant conductors to complete short application form at THIS LINK.Video samples are welcome but not required. There is a non-refundable application fee of $20. Review of Active Participant applications will begin August 15 and continue until the workshop is full. Auditor applications will be accepted until October 15. THE TUITION: For more information on the workshop, contact: Dr. Michael Mishra at: [email protected] Continuing Education Credits |
