Conducting Residency: Robert Porco
Monday, October 15, 2007
11:30am Westminster Symphonic Choir Master Class: Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 – The Playhouse (open to public)
1:30pm Question and Answer with Graduate Choral Conductors – The Martin Room
4:30pm Observe Westminster Choir
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
10:30am Mastersingers Master Class: Bach’s Magnificat The Playhouse (open to the public)
11:30am Westminster Symphonic Choir Master Class: Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 – The Playhouse (open to public)
2:30pm Conducting Master Class – The Playhouse (open to the public)
Robert Porco
Robert Porco is one of America’s pre-eminent conductors of orchestral works requiring large choral ensembles. He has guest conducted The Cleveland Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony and other orchestras in the United States and Europe.
From 1980 to 1998, Mr. Porco served as Professor of Music and chairman of the choral department at the Indiana University School of Music, and continues to teach conducting in classroom settings and privately.
In 1989, Mr. Porco became Director of Choruses for the Cincinnati May Festival, and has prepared the May Festival Chorus for performances in Carnegie Hall and with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, and for the annual May Festival.
In 1998, Mr. Porco was appointed Director of Choruses for The Cleveland Orchestra, and has prepared The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus for performances with the Orchestra at the London Proms, the Lucerne Festival, the Edinburgh Festival and in Carnegie Hall. In addition, Mr. Porco leads the Orchestra and Chorus in their annual Christmas concerts and in frequent performances of Messiah.
Mr. Porco has done chorus preparation for such prominent conductors as Pierre Boulez, James Conlon, Christoph von Dohnányi, Paavo Järvi, Raymond Leppard, James Levine, Jahja Ling, Jesús López-Cobos, Zubin Mehta, John Nelson, André Previn, Kurt Sanderling, Leonard Slatkin, Robert Shaw, Franz Welser-Möst and John Williams.
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