“Esa-Pekka Salonen is to helm a new, pre-professional conducting program at the Colburn School, its first,” writes Susan Elliott in Wednesday’s (10/3) Musical America (subscription required). “It will be called the Negaunee Conducting Program and its participants—no more than three per year—will be known as Salonen Fellows. Tuition is free and applications for the first class of fellows, starting in Fall of 2019, are due by December 1, 2018. The Negaunee Foundation is presided over by Richard W. Colburn and funded largely from the estate of his father, Richard D. Colburn, for whom the Los Angeles school [is] named…. Salonen is conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and principal conductor of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, which will play a role in the program…. The orchestra has its own Emerging Artists Program, with which the Colburn program will interface. Fellows will study with Salonen at the Colburn School and lead the Colburn Orchestra. Salonen, who becomes an adjunct faculty member, will offer several seminars on conducting and auditioning. He’s also scheduled to conduct the school’s orchestra. Graduates of the program will a diploma in conducting in two to three years.”
Posted October 5, 2018
