8:00pm

Barcelo Hotel Rooftop

Join your colleagues for a social get-together prior to the beginning of the conference sessions.  Arrive at your hotel, settle in, remember that the Spanish dine much later - usually beginning around 8:00pm -, and gather with all conference delegates for an evening of laughter, stories, photos, and much more!

Breakfast on your own -

Mentoring Sessions - sign-up in advance or when you arrive for one-on-one mentoring sessions with highly experienced colleagues, ready to share their knowledge with you! Mentoring sessions will be scheduled individually and throughout each day. See an ICG Board Member if you have not signed up in advance.

Tour of Valencia - meet at the Barcelo Hotel Valencia at 9:30am
 Av. de França, 11, 46023 València, Valencia, Spain

President's Welcome - Opening Session
Julius Williams, President, International Conductors Guild 
Cristóbal Soler - President - AESDO
María Martínez Iturriaga - Executive Director, Berklee Valencia/ Senior
Vice President, International Learning Environments
Simone Pilon - Dean, Berklee College of Music Valencia

Edward Cumming - What is harder to conduct: Stravinsky's Danse sacrale, or a Mozart Divertimento for strings? 

Bram Lamberts - Professionalisation of the enthusiasts’ association by working together with professional conductors.
"Today we experience a great professionalisation of the music associations. Not only in their organisational structures, but also in the way the approach making music together. This brings new challenges along the way. Not only in way of finances, but also in making music together. The level of mastery demanded by the associations for their conductor brings a need of life long learning and Fair Practice. It also brings the need of a well thought administrative setup with a contract and an official co-operation resulting in a sustainable relation between the conductor, the board and the musicians." 

Carlos Brown - The Bridge: Tone Poem for Orchestra by Sharon J. Willis, an introduction

Javier José Mendoza 
Gustavo Sanchez 
18th Century Symphonies in Iberia and New Spain

Conductor Retrospective - Maestro Jesús López-Cobos (in memoriam)
Cristóbal Soler - President, AESDO
David Azagra - Vice President, AESDO
François López Ferrer - Director Residente en la Academia de la Ópera de París
Beatrice Altobelli - Maestro López-Cobos' Manager
Justo Romero, Music Critic

Coffee - Snack Break

Sasha Mäkilä - Music philology and manuscript study and their relevance to the profession of conducting.

7:00pm - 7:45pm

The Conducting Profession - Claire Fox Hillard, Moderator

Mark Perlman - Is There a Language of Conducting? - A Philosophical Examination of the Nature of Conducting as a Communication System

Dinner on your own - see the list of restaurants at the registration desk or on the app

7:30am - 8:30am

Breakfast on your own

Remember to contact [email protected] if you would like to schedule a Mentoring Session during the conference. 

8:30am - 9:15am

International Conductors Guild - Board of Directors Meeting

9:15am - 9:30am

Visit the Exhibitor Area just outside the Aula Magistral

Orquesta de Valencia - Dress Rehearsal begins at 10:30am - please do not be late!
Dress Rehearsal
Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia

Alexander Liebreich, Conductor and Artistic Director 

*We encourage you to visit the Exhibitor area during the orchestra break.

Lunch Break - Palau Cantina or see the list of recommended local eateries.

Caleb Wenzel -  Revisiting the Gesamtkunstwerk: Retrospective Lessons on Interdisciplinary Performance from the Work of Carmen-Helena Téllez

Cynthia Katsarelis - An Overlooked Masterpiece: Shostakovich Symphony No. 14 for Soprano, Bass, and Chamber Orchestra

Women Conductor Panel - Liane Curtis, Moderator

Carolyn Watson - Cracks in the Glass Ceiling: Women Conductors, New Trends, Old Challenges

Danielle Lisboa - Revisiting the Status of the Maestra in today's podium

Cristóbal Soler

7:30pm - 9:00pm

Orquesta de València Concert               
Alexander Liebreich, Director

 Györgi Ligeti  - Ramifications

Anton Bruckner  - Sinfonia No. 7

Location: Palau de Les Arts Auditorium

9:00pm

Dinner on your own

Breakfast on your own

Mentoring Sessions - today is your last day to receive a one-on-one mentoring session with highly experienced colleagues, ready to share their knowledge with you! Mentoring sessions will be scheduled individually and throughout each day. Email Jan if you would like a mentor:  [email protected]

Tour the Berklee College of Music Valencia Campus - Entrance
  Souvenir materials (t-shirts, bags, mugs, etc.) will be available for purchase.

Walk to the Aula Magistral

The Amateur Ensemble and Musicians - Julie Sorensen, Moderator
Sandra Dackow

Jonathan D. Lane

Victoria Zhadko - Ukraine Music
Anatolij Zhuljev's Concert piece "Yatran" and Symphony poem "Bajda

12:30pm - 1:15pm

Mercedes Diaz Garcia - The Shaping of Time in Contemporary Music

Brian Festa - The Most Important Instrument: The Self.
How conductors can support musician and conductor wellbeing.

Lunch Break - Palau Cantina - Please feel free to walk to various outside restaurants for lunch today!  Ask at the desk for more information.

Multi-Cultural and Culturally Informed Conducting - What is it? - Dominique Røyem, Moderator

Dwight Pile-Gray - What is Culturally Informed Conducting?

Noreen Green- Drew - Multi-cultural Programming: Expanding the orchestral repertoire with Jewish-themed works

Alexandra Zacharella - The Incomparable Helen May Butler and Her Ladies Military Brass Band 

International Conductors Guild Annual Membership Meeting
Election of Directors
Election of Officers
Other Business
**This session is only for active members of the International Conductors Guild.  All other delegates, please visit with our Exhibitors just outside of the Aula Magistral.

Light Refreshments provided in the Exhibitor Hallway

Walk to the Conservatorio Municipal de Musica
Av. de les Balears, 38, 46023 València, Valencia, Spain

Joven Orquesta de la FSM de La Communidad Valenciana
Cristóbal Soler, Director

Joseph Canteloube - Chants d'Auvergne

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Sinfonia No. 4

Location: Conservatorio Municipal de Música, Auditorio
Av. de les Balears, 38, 46023 València, Valencia, Spain

**There is no ticket charge for this concert.

Dinner on your own