About the International Conducting Workshop and Festival (ICWF)
Since 2002, ICWF has offered unparalleled conducting training and critique in an intensive, yet non-competitive, professional, and supportive atmosphere creating a superb opportunity to immerse oneself deeply in important standard orchestral repertoire studying with faculty of world class stature.
For practical experience, all participants conduct both full orchestra and piano sextet. Subjects studied include conducting technique, interpretation, score study, analysis, rehearsal technique, stage deportment, and musician interaction.
ICWF 2024: Lviv November!
From November 27-December 2 (6 days) the International Conducting Workshop and Festival will present ICWF 2024 Lviv November in Lviv, Ukraine in partnership with the Lviv National Philharmonic. The workshop will include two public concerts conducted by each of the ten participants. The workshops will focus on varied standard repertoire and will be led by Benjamin Loeb (ICWF Artistic Director). The workshop is timed specifically for conductors wanting new video for graduate school applications.
ICWF 2024 North Bohemian Opera and Ballet Orchestra
ICWF 2024 North Bohemian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. Conductors: Feliza Estrada, Justin Han, Jacqueline Klein, John Moon, Michael Sheppard.
Watch their entire concert here:
Don Schleicher's 12 Ingredients to be a Great Conductor
Don Schleicher tells us all the "12 Ingredients to be a Great Conductor" with Benjamin Loeb
ICWF 2024 Dallas
The International Conducting Workshop and Festival is thrilled to announce ICWF 2024: Dallas, a new partnership with the Plano West High School Orchestra and Boosters, Ryan Ross, Orchestra Director, in Plano, TX (a suburb of Dallas) to present a workshop from June 19 through June 24, 2024 focusing on Beethoven and Tchaikovsky and led again by Donald Schleicher (Northwestern University Bienen School of Music) and Farkhad Khudyev (University of Texas Austin Butler School of Music). They will be assisted by Benjamin Loeb (ICWF Artistic Director). Susan Dunn will lead Presence on Stage sessions, and Michael Sheppard will be the workshop pianist.
