“Geoffrey Robson will be on the podium tonight at New York’s Carnegie Hall, conducting the Chamber Orchestra of New York,” writes Eric E. Harrison in Thursday’s (6/8) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock). “Robson, associate conductor of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, won the New York orchestra’s inaugural Respighi Prize in Conducting on Monday night at its New York Conducting Workshop, which … wrapped up Tuesday…. The prize includes the opportunity to conduct the ensemble … during its season finale in Carnegie’s Weill Hall. The workshop included 16 conductors from at least six different countries and all over the United States…. The workshop curators included … conductors Dirk Brosse, the music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia; John Farrer of the London Conducting Workshop and the Royal College of Music in London; Salvatore Di Vittorio, the music director of the Chamber Orchestra of New York; and … Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore and Sao Paulo symphony orchestras. The four coached and analyzed the participants’ technique over three days as they conducted … works by Mozart, Edvard Grieg, Ottorino Respighi, and Antonin Dvorák.”
Posted June 9, 2017
