
ATLANTA SUMMER CONDUCTING INSTITUTE
Immerse yourself in a week of musical mentorship in the conducting art.
Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute
About
“I would absolutely recommend this institute for other musicians.”
June 27 - July 1
Choral Track Schedule
June 27 - July 1
Monday - Sample Schedule
Welcome
Morning Sing with Dr. Bara
Lecture: Assembling and Preparing the Choral Ensemble
Building Choral Tone, and Teaching Ensemble Awareness Skills
Lunch
Conducting Master Class
End of Day
Tuesday
Questions from the Class
Optional for those who wish to ask in-depth questions
Morning Sing with Dr. Bara
Lecture: The Score: Seeing All That Is In There
Namely, its questions, mechanics, technical hurdles, dramatic opportunities, stylistic assumptions, and interpretive options.
Lunch
Conducting Master Class
End of Day
Wednesday
Questions from the Class
Optional for those who wish to ask in-depth questions
Morning Sing with Dr. Bara
Lecture: Assembling and Preparing the Choral Ensemble
Building Choral Tone, and Teaching Ensemble Awareness Skills
Lunch
Beethoven & Company
Visit Beethoven & Company’s booth to explore their selection of print music, vocal exercises, teacher’s resources and more.
Conducting Master Class
End of Day
Thursday
Beethoven & Company
Visit Beethoven & Company’s booth to explore their selection of print music, vocal exercises, teacher’s resources and more.
Questions from the Class
Optional for those who wish to ask in-depth questions
Morning Conducting Master Class
Lunch
Afternoon Conducting Master Classes
End of Day
Friday
Beethoven & Company
Visit Beethoven & Company’s booth to explore their selection of print music, vocal exercises, teacher’s resources and more.
Morning Conducting Master Class
Lunch
Afternoon Conducting Master Classes
End of Institute
Wind Band Track Schedule
June 27 - July 1
Monday
Welcome
Introduction and Technique Session
Conducting Session 1
Small Group Conducting
Lunch
Lecture: Mallory Thompson
Conducting Session 2
Small Group Conducting
Wrap Up and Questions
End of Day
Tuesday
Morning Introduction and Techniques Session
Optional for those who wish to ask in-depth questions
Conducting Session 3
Full Band Conducting Session
Lunch
Lecture: Mallory Thompson
Conducting Session 4
Small Group Conducting
Wrap Up and Questions
End of Day
Wednesday
Introduction & Techniques Session
Optional for those who wish to ask in-depth questions
Conducting Session 5
Full Band Conducting Session
Lunch
Building Choral Tone, and Teaching Ensemble Awareness Skills
Lecture: Robert Ambrose
Conducting Session 6
Visit Beethoven & Company’s booth to explore their selection of print music, vocal exercises, teacher’s resources and more.
Wrap Up and Questions
End of Day
Thursday
Introduction and Techniques Session
Conducting Session 7
Chamber Ensemble Conducting Session
Lunch
Beethoven & Company
Visit Beethoven & Company’s booth to explore their selection of print music, vocal exercises, teacher’s resources and more.
Lecture: Mallory Thompson and Robert Ambrose
Conducting Session 8
Small Group Conducting Session
Wrap Up and Questions
End of Day
Friday
Beethoven & Company
Visit Beethoven & Company’s booth to explore their selection of print music, vocal exercises, teacher’s resources and more.
Conducting Session 9
Full Band Conducting Session
Wrap Up and Questions
End of Institute
Repertoire
June 27 - July 1
Repertoire for the upcoming Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute will be released in the spring and will be listed with the appropriate edition and publisher. Conductors will be assigned selections to ensure a wide range of music styles and all literature is covered. Auditors and Conducting Fellows will be responsible for purchasing or providing their own copies of the repertoire.
Complete Publishers Packets will be made available through Beethoven and Company by visiting the Beethoven & Company Website. Participants may choose to order music individually or through their publisher of choice, however; please note the indicated preferred publications for the repertoire.
Music listed through the Choral Public Domain Library (cpdl.org) is free and should be downloaded and printed prior to attending the workshop. CPDL selections will not be included in the completed Publishers Packet from Beethoven and Company.
CHORAL REPERTOIRE
Longer works
NATHANIEL DETT: Chariot Jubilee – GIA
MARIANNA MARTINES: Dixit Dominus – A-R Editions
BRAHMS: Schicksalslied – Schirmer PV, Dover Full Score
BRAHMS: Nänie – Schirmer PV, Dover Full Score
MENDELSSOHN: Psalm 42 – Carus Full Score / PV
HANDEL: Messiah – Dover Full, Novello PV
HOWELLS: Requiem – Novello
LILI BOULANGER: Soir Sur La Plaine – Schirmer
Octavos
BRITTEN: Festival De Deum – Boosey
CECILIA MCDOWALL: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth – Oxford
SARAH QUARTEL: How Can I Keep from Singing
SARAH QUARTEL: Sing My Child – Oxford
PHILIP STOPFORD: Ubi Caritas – Philipstopford.com
SHAWN KIRCHNER: Hard Times Come Again No More – Boosey
RAFFAEALLA ALEOTTI: Vidi Speciosam (CDPL)
KEN BURTON: Many are the Wonders – Voquality
REENA ESMAIL: Tarakita – Oxford
BRITNEY BOYKIN – Music of Life – Oxford (SSAA)
RICHARD BURCHARD: Cum Laude Ego Canto – Fred Bock
Wind Band Track
Small Group
- Short SATB excerpts from well-known band and chamber wind works, provided by Georgia State University
Chamber Ensemble
- Gaetano Donizetti (ed. Townsend) – Sinfonia for Winds
- Charles Gounod – Petite Symphonie, all movements
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Octet-Partita, movement 1
Full Ensemble
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (arr. Kreines) – Ave Verum Corpus (grade 3)
- Cait Nishimura – Chasing Sunlight (grade 3)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – Flourish for Wind Band (grade 3)
- Katahj Copley – Cold (grade 4)
- John Mackey – Sheltering Sky (grade 4)
- Hugh M. Stuart – Three Ayers from Gloucester (grade 4)
- Frank Ticheli – Simple Gifts: Four Shaker Songs (grade 4)
- Malcolm Arnold – Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo (grade 5)
- Gustav Holst (ed. Matthews) – Second Suite in F (grade 5)
- Percy Grainger (ed. Fennell) – Lincolnshire Posy, mvts. 2, 4, 6 (grade 6)
Fees
June 27 - July 1
Faculty
June 27 - July 1




Application
June 27 - July 1
Application Criteria
Application for the Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute. Conducting Fellow Applications are due by April 15, 2022.
- Wind Band Track applicants will be contacted within 2 weeks of their submission.
- Choral Track applicants will be notified of their acceptance the week of May 16th.
- Auditor Applications will be accepted until June 3, 2022 or our auditor capacity is reached.
Application Requirements
Completed Application
CV/Resume
Brief Paragraph indicating your reason for choosing the Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute.
Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute
June 27 - July 1
“I would absolutely recommend this institute for other musicians.”
Choral Track
The Choral Track will accept Conducting Fellows and Auditors. Each conductor will receive 4 sessions of podium time.
Wind Band Track
The Wind Band Track will accept Conducting Fellows and Auditors. Each conductor will receive 5 sessions of podium time.
Choral Track Schedule
The Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute offers approximately
500 MINUTES
of master class time
June 27 - July 1
SAMPLE SCHEDULE - Monday
Welcome
Morning Sing with Dr. Bara
Lecture: Assembling and Preparing the Choral Ensemble
Building Choral Tone, and Teaching Ensemble Awareness Skills
Lunch
Conducting Master Class
End of Day
Tuesday
Questions from the Class
Optional for those who wish to ask in-depth questions
Morning Sing with Dr. Bara
Lecture: The Score: Seeing All That Is In There
Namely, its questions, mechanics, technical hurdles, dramatic opportunities, stylistic assumptions, and interpretive options.
Lunch
Conducting Master Class
End of Day
Wednesday
Questions from the Class
Optional for those who wish to ask in-depth questions
Morning Sing with Dr. Bara
Workshop: Rehearsal Techniques
A demonstration of techniques and overriding aesthetic goals of brisk, productive, efficient, rewarding rehearsals.
Lunch
Beethoven & Company
Visit Beethoven & Company’s booth to explore their selection of print music, vocal exercises, teacher’s resources and more.
Conducting Master Class
End of Day
Thursday
Beethoven & Company
Visit Beethoven & Company’s booth to explore their selection of print music, vocal exercises, teacher’s resources and more.
Questions from the Class
Optional for those who wish to ask in-depth questions
Morning Conducting Master Class
Lunch
Afternoon Conducting Master Classes
End of Day
Friday
Beethoven & Company
Visit Beethoven & Company’s booth to explore their selection of print music, vocal exercises, teacher’s resources and more.
Morning Conducting Master Class
Lunch
Beethoven & Company
Visit Beethoven & Company’s booth to explore their selection of print music, vocal exercises, teacher’s resources and more.
Conducting Master Class
End of Day
Wind Band Track Schedule
Accepted Conducting Fellows receive
DAILY
podium time.
June 27 - July 1
Monday
Welcome
Introduction and Technique Session
Kopleff Recital Hall
Conducting Session 1
Small Group Conducting
Lunch
Lecture: Mallory Thompson
Conducting Session 2
Small Group Conducting
Wrap Up and Questions
End of Day
Tuesday
Morning Introductions & Techniques Session
Conducting Session 3
Full Band Conducting Session
Lunch
Lecture: Mallory Thompson
Conducting Session 4
Small Group Conducting
Wrap Up and Questions
End of Day
Wednesday
Morning Introduction and Techniques Session
Conducting Session 5
Full Band Conducting Session
Lunch
Lecture: Robert Ambrose
Conducting Session 6
Small Group Conducting
Wrap Up and Questions
End of Day
Thursday
Morning Introduction and Techniques Session
Conducting Session 7
Chamber Ensemble Conducting Session
Lunch
Beethoven & Company
Visit Beethoven & Company’s booth to explore their selection of print music, warmup exercises, teacher’s resources and more.
Lecture: Mallory Thompson and Robert Ambrose
Conducting Session 8
Small Group Conducting
Wrap Up and Questions
End of Day
Friday
Morning Introduction and Techniques Session
Conducting Session 9
Full Band Conducting Session
Wrap Up and Questions
Workshop Ends
Faculty
June 27 - July 1

Dr. Daniel Bara
Daniel Bara is the John D. Boyd UGA Foundation Professor of Choral Music and the Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Music at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia where oversees seven university choral ensembles as well as the graduate choral conducting program. His university choirs have performed by juried invitation for state, regional, and national conventions of ACDA, MENC, and IMC. In spring of 2014, The UGA Hodgson Singers won the Grand Prix at the International Choral Competition Ave Verum in Baden, Austria and performed at the ACDA Southern Division Convention in Jacksonville, FL. His former MM and DMA conducting students now hold collegiate conducting appointments at Susquehanna University, New England Conservatory, Miami University of Ohio, University of Idaho, William Jewell College, as well as heads of church and school choral music programs throughout the country.
Prior to his appointment at UGA, Dr. Bara was the Director of Choral Activities at East Carolina University, where he received the UNC Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Teaching Award and the Robert L. Jones Award for Outstanding Teaching, and released two internationally distributed choral recordings, Greater Love (2007) and Eternal Light (2010) with Gothic Records. In 2001was a winner of the Walter Hagen Conducting Prize given at the Eastman School of Music, and the ACDA National Student Conducting Competition (Graduate Division) awarded at the National Convention in San Antonio, TX.
Dr. Bara is a past-president of NC-ACDA, has held the Artistic Directorship of the New York State Summer School of the Arts – School of Choral Studies (2007-2009), and has served as conductor of the World Youth Honor Choir at Interlochen Arts Camp (2004-2006). He is in regular demand as a guest conductor and clinician, having conducted all-state and honor choirs in 17 states and Carnegie Hall, and has served as a clinician for conferences sponsored by ACDA, AGO, and other school and church musical organizations.
Dr. Bara holds the DMA degree in conducting from the Eastman School of Music, organ and conducting degrees from the University of Michigan, and is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy. He is the Repertoire and Standards Chair for Youth and Student Activities for the Southern Division Chapter of ACDA and has served on conference planning committees for the 2012 and 2016 Southern Division conferences. At UGA, Dr. Bara conducts the UGA Hodgson Singers, the University Chorus, and oversees the graduate conducting student recital choir, The Repertory Singers.

Dr. Deanna Joseph
Dr. Deanna Joseph is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at the Georgia State University School of Music where she conducts the University Singers and leads the master’s program in choral conducting. In 2015, she was the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Outstanding Teacher Award at Georgia State, where she was selected out of a pool of over 800 faculty. A recent review of her work states, “[t]he choir sings with great musicality, excellent intonation, clear diction, and a healthy and beautiful pallet of tone colors…” (The Choral Scholar).
In May of 2017, the University Singers under Dr. Joseph’s leadership won first place in the renowned Marktoberdorf International Chamber Choir Competition while on a concert tour of Austria and Bavaria. In May of 2013, the University Singers competed in La Florilège Vocal de Tours where the choir placed second overall in the mixed choir category and Dr. Joseph was honored with the Prix du chef de choer (conducting prize). The Georgia State University Singers have been invited to perform at two Southern Division conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and at two conventions of the Georgia Music Educator’s Association during Dr. Joseph’s tenure at GSU, and the Georgia State University Choirs have been hired to sing two productions of David Bintley’s Carmina Burana with the Atlanta Ballet: in 2013 (North American premiere performances) and 2017. The choir’s professional recording, Evening Hymn (Gothic Records), is distributed internationally by Naxos and is available for purchase or streaming on all the major music distribution outlets including Amazon, Spotify, iTunes, etc. The American Record Guide review states “There are no runts in the repertory litter…[and] [t]he Georgia State choir of 40 is very good at all of it: radiant as dusk approaches, but hushed and sensitive to the coming darkness as shadows deepen and fall.” The disk has been featured several times on National Public Radio’s program, With Heart and Voice.
Dr. Joseph is an active guest conductor and headline clinician and has conducted all-state and honor choirs in more than twelve states. She is a frequent conductor of choral-orchestral repertoire, and has led performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven Mass in C, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Creation and Lord Nelson Mass, Schubert’s Mass in A-flatand Bruckner’s Mass in D Minor. She has prepared choirs to sing with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Opera, and Andrea Bocelli. One of her small ensembles was featured on a 2016 episode of “The Walking Dead”.
Dr. Joseph’s research in the area of 19th century choral-orchestral performance-practice has led to invited presentations on the topic at several division conferences of the American Choral Director’s Association and at the national convention for the National Collegiate Choral Organization. In October of 2012 she was selected as one of 25 presenters from ten countries to speak at the Lund Choral Festival in Sweden.
Prior to her appointment at Georgia State University, Dr. Joseph served on the faculties at Smith College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Dr. Joseph holds conducting degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she was awarded the Walter Hagen Conducting Prize. She is the founder and artistic director of the Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute (ASCI), a weeklong, summer conducting master class that draws conductors from across the country.

Dr. Robert Ambrose
Conductor Robert J. Ambrose enjoys a highly successful and diverse career as a dynamic and engaging musician. His musical interests cross many genres and can be seen in the wide range of professional activities he pursues. Dr. Ambrose studied formally at Boston College, Boston University and Northwestern University, where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting.
Dr. Ambrose has conducted professionally across the United States as well as in Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. His interpretations have earned the enthusiastic praise of many leading composers including Pulitzer Prize winners Leslie Bassett, Michael Colgrass and John Harbison. Dr. Ambrose is considered an authority on Arnold Schoenberg’s landmark piece Pierrot Lunaire, having conducted it several times in three different countries. He has conducted over two dozen premiere performances including works by Michael Colgrass, Jonathan Newman, Joel Puckett, Christopher Theofanidis and Joseph Turrin. In addition, a recent performance of Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms under his direction has been given repeated airings on Georgia Public Radio.
Dr. Ambrose is founder and music director of the Atlanta Chamber Winds a professional dectet specializing in the promotion of music by emerging composers as well as lesser-known works of established composers. Their premiere compact disc, Music from Paris, was released in 2009 on the Albany Records label and has received outstanding reviews in both Fanfare and Gramophone magazines.
As a guitarist, Robert Ambrose has performed in dozens of jazz ensembles, combos, rock bands and pit orchestras. His rock band “Hoochie Suit,” formed with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, received rave reviews throughout the Chicago area and performed for such distinguished guests as Yo-Yo Ma and Daniel Barenboim.
Dr. Ambrose currently serves as director of bands, associate professor of music and associate director of the School of Music at Georgia State University, a Research I institution of 32,000 students located in Atlanta, GA. As director of bands he conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, maintains a highly selective studio of graduate students in the Master of Music in wind band conducting degree program, and oversees a large, comprehensive band program comprised of four concert ensembles and three athletic bands. He lives in Peachtree City, GA with his wife Sarah Kruser Ambrose, a professional flute player, and daughters Isabelle and Hannah.

Dr. Mallory Thompson
Mallory Thompson is director of bands, professor of music, coordinator of the conducting program, and holds the John W. Beattie Chair of Music at Northwestern University. In 2003 she was named a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. As the third person in the university’s history to hold the director of bands position, Thompson conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting, and administers all aspects of the band program. She has recorded ve albums with the Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble on the Summit Records label. In addition to her teaching duties at Northwestern, Dr. Thompson has served as the Artistic Director of the Northshore Concert Band since 2003.
Thompson received the Bachelor of Music Education degree and Master of Music degree in conducting from Northwestern University, where she studied conducting with John P. Paynter and trumpet with Vincent Cichowicz. She received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Donald Hunsberger.
Maintaining an active schedule as a guest conductor, conducting teacher, and guest lecturer throughout the United States and Canada, Thompson has had the privilege of teaching conducting to thousands of undergraduates, graduate students, and professional educators. She has served as a conductor or clinician at the College Band Directors National Association regional and national conventions, the Midwest Clinic, the Interlochen Arts Academy, numerous state music conventions, and the Aspen Music Festival. In addition to conducting all-state ensembles throughout the United States, she has had professional engagements as guest conductor with the United States Air Force Band, the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own,” the United States Army Field Band, the United States Coast Guard Band, the United States Navy Band, the West Point Band, the Dallas Wind Symphony, Symphony Silicon Valley, the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, Monarch Brass Ensemble, and Banda Sinfônica in Sao Pãulo, Brazil. In 2019, She was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Midwest Clinic in recognition of her service to music education and continuing influence on the development and improvement of bands and orchestras worldwide. Her professional affiliations include Pi Kappa Lambda, the College Band Directors National Association, and the American Bandmasters Association.
Dr. Thompson is especially proud of her 56 graduate conducting students and the hundreds of outstanding Symphonic Wind Ensemble members with whom she has had the joy of making music at Northwestern. She treasures her relationship with the Wildcat Marching Band and is honored to preserve and grow Northwestern’s legacy.
Repertoire
20 FELLOWS
receive a total of 40 minutes of podium time throughout multiple sessions
June 28 - July 1
Choral Track
Choral Repertoire for the upcoming Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute will be released in the spring and will be listed with the appropriate edition and publisher. Conductors will be assigned selections to ensure a wide range of music styles and all literature is covered. Auditors and Conducting Fellows will be responsible for purchasing or providing their own copies of the repertoire.
Complete Publishers Packets will be made available through Beethoven and Company by visiting the Beethoven & Company Website. Participants may choose to order music individually or through their publisher of choice, however; please note the indicated preferred publications for the repertoire.
Music listed through the Choral Public Domain Library (cpdl.org) is free and should be downloaded and printed prior to attending the workshop. CPDL selections will not be included in the completed Publishers Packet from Beethoven and Company.
CHORAL REPERTOIRE
Longer works
NATHANIEL DETT: Chariot Jubilee – GIA
MARIANNA MARTINES: Dixit Dominus – A-R Editions
BRAHMS: Schicksalslied – Schirmer PV, Dover Full Score
BRAHMS: Nänie – Schirmer PV, Dover Full Score
MENDELSSOHN: Psalm 42 – Carus Full Score / PV
HANDEL: Messiah – Dover Full, Novello PV
HOWELLS: Requiem – Novello
LILI BOULANGER: Soir Sur La Plaine – Schirmer
Octavos
BRITTEN: Festival De Deum – Boosey
CECILIA MCDOWALL: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth – Oxford
SARAH QUARTEL: How Can I Keep from Singing
SARAH QUARTEL: Sing My Child – Oxford
PHILIP STOPFORD: Ubi Caritas – Philipstopford.com
SHAWN KIRCHNER: Hard Times Come Again No More – Boosey
RAFFAEALLA ALEOTTI: Vidi Speciosam (CDPL)
KEN BURTON: Many are the Wonders – Voquality
REENA ESMAIL: Tarakita – Oxford
BRITNEY BOYKIN – Music of Life – Oxford (SSAA)
RICHARD BURCHARD: Cum Laude Ego Canto – Fred Bock
Wind Band Track
WIND BAND REPERTOIRE
Small Group
- Short SATB excerpts from well-known band and chamber wind works, provided by Georgia State University
Chamber Ensemble
- Gaetano Donizetti (ed. Townsend) – Sinfonia for Winds
- Charles Gounod – Petite Symphonie, all movements
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Octet-Partita, movement 1
Full Ensemble
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (arr. Kreines) – Ave Verum Corpus (grade 3)
- Cait Nishimura – Chasing Sunlight (grade 3)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – Flourish for Wind Band (grade 3)
- Katahj Copley – Cold (grade 4)
- John Mackey – Sheltering Sky (grade 4)
- Hugh M. Stuart – Three Ayers from Gloucester (grade 4)
- Frank Ticheli – Simple Gifts: Four Shaker Songs (grade 4)
- Malcolm Arnold – Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo (grade 5)
- Gustav Holst (ed. Matthews) – Second Suite in F (grade 5)
- Percy Grainger (ed. Fennell) – Lincolnshire Posy, mvts. 2, 4, 6 (grade 6)
Conducting Fellow - $595.00
Fees
Up to
70 AUDITORS
to attend the Institute
June 27 - July 1
Choral Track Fees
Application Fee - $25.00
Conducting Fellow - $595.00
Institute Auditor - $395.00
Wind Band Track Fees
Application Fee - $25.00
Conducting Fellow - $595.00
Institute Auditor - $295.00
Application
$25 Application Fee due with application
June 27 - July 1
Application Criteria
Completed Application
CV or Resume
Brief Paragraph indicating your reason for choosing the Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute
Apply Today
Application for the Atlanta Summer Conducting Institute. Conducting Fellow Applications are due by April 15, 2022.
- Wind Band Track applicants will be contacted within 2 weeks of their submission.
- Choral Track applicants will be notified of their acceptance the week of May 16th.
- Auditor Applications will be accepted until June 3, 2022 or our auditor capacity is reached.
Apply Today
Wind Band Track applicants will be contacted within 2 weeks of their submission.
Choral Track applicants will be notified of their acceptance the week of May 16th.
Auditor Applications will be accepted until June 3, 2022 or our auditor capacity is reached.