As busy music educators, refining our conducting skills can be challenging. This interactive session offers an opportunity to explore and improve both the technical and expressive elements of ensemble conducting. Educators will gain concepts and tools to enhance their personal conducting craft and elevate both their own and their ensemble’s musicianship. In response to the evolving educational landscape, where directors are increasingly asked to teach outside their area of expertise, the clinician will provide tips and advice for strings, winds, brass, and percussion directors conducting beyond their specialty. This clinic is designed for students and professionals at all levels who seek to enhance their conducting skills and develop tools for self-assessment and improvement.
Topics will include:
- Clear and Expressive Conducting Through:
- Ergonomic movement
- Effective score study and musicianship
- Tips and tricks for conducting Winds, Brass, Percussion, and Strings
Good Habits on the Podium to:
- Improve ensemble attentiveness, response, and performance
- Enhance both personal and ensemble musicianship
There will be dedicated time for Q&A, so come prepared with your inquiries!
Target Audience
Orchestra Directors, Band Directors, Music Education Majors, all musicians interested in conducting
Additional Notes
Clinician Info
Bradley Hogarth
San Francisco State University
Brad Hogarth is a versatile and multi-faceted musician, whose career has taken him from the finest concert halls in Europe to the frozen Arctic tundra and the dusty Black Rock Desert. He is especially passionate about musical outreach – both as a performer and as an educator, Brad hopes to bring people and communities together through the power of live performance.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Brad is the Associate Professor of Conducting at San Francisco State University, the Associate Conductor of the Monterey Symphony, and is the music director and conductor of the Art Haus Collective, known for presenting spectacular performances of classical and contemporary works in unique spaces. Brad conducts theSan Francisco Conservatory of Music Wind Ensemble, and is the music director of the Peninsula Youth Orchestra.
Brad has made appearances as a guest conductor with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Ballet, Eastman Wind Ensemble, Eastman Brass Guild, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Bay Brass, and regularly conducts Grammy winning composer Mason Bates’ Mercury Soul projects.
As a trumpeter, Brad regularly plays with orchestras in the Bay Area and beyond. He is on recordings with the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Ballet. He has toured with the Indianapolis Symphony, and has performed as guest principal trumpet with the Louisville Orchestra.
An avid educator, he was previously the Chair of Instrumental Music, Band and Full Orchestra director of Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts High School and taught music at the Gunma Kokusai Academy in Ota Gunma, Japan.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music – MM
Eastman School of Music – BM