“The Cape Ann Symphony has introduced its Conducting Fellowship Program and selected Michael Coelho of Ipswich for the initial 2018-19 season,” reads an unsigned article in Sunday’s (8/19) Gloucester Times (Mass.). “Coelho will study under the leadership of music director and conductor Yoichi Udagawa for the 2018-19 concert season…. ‘This is a new position and I am just so thankful to be given the opportunity,’ Coelho said…. Coelho will spearhead the symphony’s new pre-concert lecture series before the concerts on Sept. 22 and 23, lead rehearsals and make his conducting debut during the holiday concerts on Nov. 24 and 25…. He will conduct … the Cape Ann Symphony’s Educational Youth Initiative … [He] has been tasked with not only programming a concert, but developing and justifying its budget as well. ‘For me personally, it is an opportunity to dip into what a professional orchestra would be like as an instrument,’ he said…. A graduate of Boston Conservatory, Coelho is director of orchestras at Ipswich Public Schools…. Coelho said he hopes to encourage more of his students to attend some of the orchestra’s performances … ‘We have a professional orchestra in our backyard,’ he said. ‘We should take advantage of that.’ ”
Posted August 21, 2018
