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Orchestra
and Apprentice
Conducting
Orchestra
Ryan
McAdams, Music Director
Ryan
McAdams
leads the orchestra during the 45th anniversary season season of three subscription
performances in Carnegie Hall and three concerts at the Colden
Center for the Performing Arts in Queens (2007-08).
| "The
New York Youth Symphony...often gets compared to professional
orchestras, and one can hear why. Its music making is alive
and full; its players are thoroughly prepared and very able...they
have a freshness and a drive that seasoned ensembles are
going to rediscover only very occasionally." |
| --The
New York Times |
Rehearsals
Rehearsals take place for four hours each Sunday afternoon from September through May at Riverside
Church, Riverside Drive at 120th Street.
Masters
Coaching
Twice a year, sectional rehearsals are led by members of the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the American Symphony Orchestra.
Fellowships
Fellowships are offered each season to principal string, wind, brass,
and percussion players. Fellows have unique responsibilities and make a
commitment for additional performances.
Weekend
KICKOFF Retreat
Surrounded
by 4,500 acres of forested beauty at a Catskill Mountains facility, musicians participate in
intensive rehearsals, with free time for hiking, sports, movies,
practicing, and relaxing. Kickoff Fee: $225
For
more information please see the members page.
First Music World
Premières
Every season, the orchestra gives world premières of three pieces written
by young American composers. Orchestra members collaborate with today's most gifted young composers in
a unique opportunity for both composer and player to realize musical dreams and
to surmount the challenges of giving the world a new work of
art.
Note:
Prospective applicants are urged to review the Membership
Guidelines and check for scheduling conflicts before applying for
an audition.
To
request an auditions brochure click here.
Apprentice
Conducting
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| “The
orchestra has been a training ground for conductors who
have gone on to bigger things.” |
| --The
New York Times |
The world’s finest emerging conductors have found the Symphony’s podium to be an
unparalleled opportunity to sharpen their craft, develop their talent, and
gain exposure in front of New York's discerning audiences. The Apprentice Conducting Program allows select participants
the chance to meet regularly with the orchestra’s Music Director and Assistant Conductor in a season-long course of study which includes
• score analysis
• parts preparation
• podium time
• baton and body technique
• orchestra psychology
Performance
Selected members of the program will end the season by conducting principal players of the New York Youth Symphony in performances of new works written by members of the Making Score program. This concert will take place on May 7, 2008, at Symphony Space.
To
order an auditions brochure, click here.
Ryan McAdams,
Music Director
Ryan McAdams recently completed a Fulbright Fellowship year as Conducting Apprentice of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic under the tutelage of that orchestra's esteemed Music Director (and newly-appointed Music Director of the New York Philharmonic), Alan Gilbert. He assisted both Maestro Gilbert and an array of international visiting guest conductors, most notably during the 2007 Nobel Prize Concert, featuring Renee Fleming. Recent and upcoming engagements include performances with the New Jersey Symphony, the Juilliard Opera Center and the Longy Conservatory. This past spring, Mr. McAdams was invited by Lorin Maazel and the Chataeuville Foundation to serve as the Foundation's first Apprentice Conductor, assisting Maestro Maazel on Britten's "The Rape of Lucretia" at the Maazel Estate in Virginia.
After two summers as an Academy conductor at the Aspen Music Festival, Mr. McAdams was appointed by Maestro David Zinman as his assistant conductor during the Aspen premiere of Ned Rorem's "Our Town." At the conclusion of the 2006 Aspen season, he was nominated by Maestro Zinman and Glimmerglass Opera to become the first-ever recipient of the Aspen Glimmerglass Prize. As a result of the prize, he served as assistant conductor on the 2007 Glimmerglass productions of Philip Glass' "Orphee" and Haydn's "L'Anima del Filosofo." He has also served as cover conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Saint Louis Symphony.
A champion of new music, Ryan McAdams has premiered over twenty works for the Juilliard Composers Concerts series and the New York City Ballet, including the 2005 world premiere of Justine Chen's opera "The Maiden Tower," recently featured at New York City Opera's VOX Festival. He has served as assistant conductor for the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and at Philadelphia's Zellerbach Theater, and was invited to conduct Samei Satoh's "The Last Song" for the Juilliard School's 2006 FOCUS! Festival.
Mr. McAdams was recently chosen as one of 14 candidates to participate in the 2nd Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg, Germany, having been selected out of almost 300 candidates from 40 countries. Last fall, he was named a nominee for the Rolex Mentor-Protege Arts Initiative.
A recent graduate of the Juilliard conducting program, Ryan McAdams has worked with all of the Juilliard orchestral ensembles; highlights include numerous orchestral performances at Alice Tully Hall, a production of Stravinsky's "Histoire du Soldat" with members of the Juilliard Music, Dance and Drama departments in Alice Tully Hall, and a concert performance of Mozart's "Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail" with members of the Juilliard Opera Center and Orchestra. Mr. McAdams was the first Master's degree candidate accepted into Juilliard by James DePreist, and is a recipient of the Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship.
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