Lawrence Golan, Conductor
Résumé


Current Appointments:


Position: Institution: Years:
Artistic Director/Conductor Atlantic Chamber Orchestra (Portland, Maine) 1998-present
Music Director/Conductor  Portland Ballet Orchestra 1997-present
Conductor Lamont Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theatre 2001-present
Director of Orchestral Studies
     and Professor of Conducting
University of Denver's Lamont School of Music 2001-present
Music Director/Conductor Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestras 2002-present

 

Past Appointments include:


Position:  Institution:  Years:
Principal Guest Conductor Bolshoi National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Uzbekistan (Tashkent) 2001-2003
Music Director/Conductor Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra
(Symphonic, Opera, and Pops)
1990-2001
Music Director/Conductor Portland Youth Symphony Orchestra 1998-2001
Director of String Studies University of Southern Maine 1990-2001
Concertmaster Portland Symphony Orchestra 1990-2001
Jazz String Ensemble Director University of Maine at Augusta 1996-1997
Principal Second Violin Honolulu Symphony Orchestra 1989-1990
Substitute Violinist Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1989-1994

 

Recent Awards:


 

2003: Downbeat Magazine's Student Music Awards, Best College Symphonic Orchestra-Lamont Symphony Orchestra, University of Denver; Lawrence Golan, Conductor

2002: Aspen Music Festival's American Academy of Conducting Fellowship

2001: Awarded Full Professor with Tenure upon arrival at the University of Denver

1999: Tanglewood Music Center's Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship

1999: University of Southern Maine's College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher and Scholar Award

 

Educational Background:


Degree: Institution: Degree Received:
D.M.A. New England Conservatory of Music May 1995
M.M. Indiana University August 1989
B.M. Indiana University May 1988

 

Summer Festivals/Workshops


Institution: Years:
National Arts Centre Conducting Program (Canada) 2003
American Academy of Conducting at Aspen 2002
National Symphony Orchestra Conducting Institute; Washington, DC 2000
Tanglewood Music Center 
(1999 Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship)
1998-1999
International Institute for Conductors; Kiev, Ukraine 1997
Conductors Institute at Varna, Bulgaria 1997
Hartt Conductors Institute 1996
Pierre Monteux School for Conductors 1995
Solti Orchestral Project at Carnegie Hall (violin) 1994
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (violin) 1988
Aspen Music School (violin) 1987
Interlochen National Music Camp (violin) 1980-1982

 

Principal Conducting Teachers:


Robert Spano
David Zinman
Jorma Panula
 

Conducting Teachers at Festivals/Workshops:


Seiji Ozawa
André Previn
Leonard Slatkin
Michael Tilson Thomas
Harold Farberman
Murry Sidlin
Pinchas Zukerman


 

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