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2009 Wisconsin State Music Conference
creativity to the core

Thursday, October 29

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10:00 am - 11:15 am Location:  Room H, Monona Terrace

Conducting Technique: The Art of Accompanying

Presented by:  Lucia Matos, DeKalb, IL
WSMA Middle Level State Honors Orchestra Conductor

Presider:  Robert Ignaszak, Waukesha

How the study of fundamental opera conducting techniques can help us to become better conductors.

Wisconsin Teacher Standards: 1, 4, 5, 6, 9
Wisconsin Music Standards: E, F, G, H

Brazilian-born conductor, Lucia Matos has appeared with numerous orchestras in the US, Brazil and Europe and has recorded a CD with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. Also intensively involved with opera, Lucia Matos has conducted several productions at Opera Illinois and was a semi-finalist at the Bela Bartok International Opera Conducting Competition.  Since fall 2008, Lucia Matos is the Music Director of the NIU Philharmonic and Opera Theater. She has also been recently appointed Music Director of the Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra.

 

 

 

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