This page contains a Flash digital edition of a book.
AVA All-State 2006 Clinicians Patrick Gardner, High School TTBB


Patrick Gardner's performances have been acclaimed by New York audiences, critics, and an international roster of composers whose orchestral and choral works he has con- ducted. In addition to his duties as Director of Choral Activities at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, where he conducts the Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir and the Rutgers Glee Club, Dr. Gardner is also the Director of the Riverside Choral Society. This com- ing season Dr. Gardner will prepare Riverside Choral Society for a performance of Shostakovich's Second and Third Symphonies with the Kirov Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic, Valery Gergiev conducting. These performaces follow Dr. Gardner’s work last season preparing RCS for critically acclaimed performances of Mahler’s Second Symphony with Gergiev and the Kirov at Carnegie Hall and the NJPAC in April


of this year. Last season he conducted Handel’s Opus 4 Organ Concerti, the Coronation Anthem Number 3 with Musica Raritana, a period instrument orchestra of professional instrumentalists and graduate students at Rutgers University, and conducted the Sacred Service of Mario Castelnouvo-Tedesco at New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage . Recently Dr. Gardner conducted the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 and the Schubert Fifth Symphony with the Rutgers Summer Festival Orchestra, the professional orchestra in residence at the University, and the Haydn Symphony No. 88 and the Mozart D Minor Piano Concerto in Burlington, New Jersey. In other recent orchestral concerts he has conducted the Ibert Flute Concerto, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky and the Faure Pavane. Dr. Gardner has prepared the Rutgers University Glee Club to join with the Philadelphia Singers for a performance of Schönberg's Gurrelieder with Sir Simon Rattle and the Philadelphia Orchestra, guided RCS for their appearances in Avery Fisher Hall, singing Robert Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri, Strauss’ reworking of Mozart’s Idomeneo and other works for the Mostly Mozart Festival. Active in premiering new music, he has won the praise of such notable composers as Lukas Foss, John Harbison, William Bolcom, Lou Harrison, and Leslie Bassett. Dr. Gardner was the chorus master for the inter- nationally acclaimed Robert Altman production of Stravinsky's Rake's Progress at the Opera de Lille in France. He has recorded for


Albany,


Ethereal and Folkways and records. His recent record- ing of Miriam Gideon’s Sacred Service with the Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir will be released as part of the Naxos Records American Classics series, joining their 2004 Naxos release of Samuel Adler’s Five Sephardic Songs in music stores nationwide.


30 ala breve February 2006


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52
Produced with Yudu - www.yudu.com