Kenneth Woods, conductor
Resumé
-Music Director, Assistant Conductor-
2009-date: Principal Guest Conductor designate, Orchestra of the Swan
2006- date: Music Director, Surrey Mozart Players
2005- date: Principal Guest Conductor, Rose City Chamber Orchestra
2000-2009: Music Director and Conductor, Oregon East Symphony and Chorale
Founding Conductor, OES Preparatory Orchestra (2002-)
Founding Artistic Director, OES Summer Music Camp (2000-)
2004-date: Principal Conductor, Lancashire Chamber Orchestra
1999-2002: Music Director, Grande Ronde Symphony and Youth Orchestras
1999-2002: Head of Strings and Instrumental Conducting, Eastern Oregon University
1998-1999: Acting Music Director, Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
1998-1999: Conducting Assistant, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Pops
1994-1999: Assistant Conductor, Texas Festival Orchestra
1996-1998: Chief Assistant Conductor Cincinnati Philharmonia
1996-1998: Assistant Conductor, CCM Opera Theater, CCM Ballet,
CCM Contemporary Music Ensemble
1994-1997: Assistant Conductor, Cover Conductor, Scotia Festival of Music
-Guest Conductor-
National Symphony Orchestra                                    Aspen Music Festival (Academy Orchestra)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales                             Fort Wayne Philharmonic
Rose City Chamber Orchestra                                   State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra
Bath Philharmonia                                                        London Mozart Players
Welsh Chamber Orchestra                                         Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Symphony
Lancashire Chamber Orchestra (UK)                       Ernest Read Symphony (London)
Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra                                Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra
Royal Orchestra Society (London)                             Surrey Mozart Players
Contemporary Music Ensemble of Wales               Grandin Festival Players
Cincinnati American Music Festival Orchestra        UW Summer Clinic Honors Orchestra        
Plevin Philharmonic, Bulgaria                                    Camerata & Chorus of St. Cyres
Eastern Chamber Choir                                              Grande Ronde Community Chorus
Orchestra Sinfonica di Pescara                                 Texas Festival Orchestra
Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra                              Consort Columbia
Nottingham Philharmonic                                           Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra
Kent County Youth Orchestra                                      Helix Ensemble
Scotia Festival Orchestra                                             Valparaiso University Symphony
CCM Opera Theatre                                                      CCM Philharmonia
Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra                     Wrexham Symphony Orchestra
CCM Concert Orchestra                                               CCM Ballet Orchestra
Hermiston A Cappella Choir                                       CCM Contemporary Music Ensemble
University of Delaware Symphony                              Wisconsin Philomusica
University of Miami Symphony                                    John Day Chorus
University of Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra          Cincinnati Recent Music Ensemble
"Conductor Ken Woods
from the Cincinnati
Conservatory marshaled
the forces with
admirable consistency,
securely initiating
tempos, shaping the
endless flow of melody
and instrumental
acrobatics and balancing
the embarrassment of
musical riches to clarify
the main line. A brilliant
job…"

Halifax Mail Star
-Other Conducting Experience-
(Workshops, auditions, cover conducting, etc)
2001 Participant, National Conducting Institute at the Kennedy Center
2000 Aspen Fellow at American Academy of Conducting at Aspen (inaugural class)
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (Assistant Conductor semi-finalist)
Budapest Festival Orchestra (Assistant Conductor runner-up)
Cover conductor (visiting), National Symphony Orchestra, 2001-
Cover conductor, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, 2003-
Workshop orchestras include- St. Louis Symphony Youth Symphony (ASOL), San Francisco Symphony
Youth Orchestra (ASOL), Bakersfield Symphony
-Young People's, Educational Concerts-
-Other Educational Projects-
Young People's Concerts with-
  • Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
  • Oregon East Symphony and Chorus
  • Oregon East Symphony Preparatory Orchestra
  • Grande Ronde Symphony and Grande Ronde Youth Orchestras     

Other Educational Projects-                     
  • Collaborator with BBC National Orchestra of Wales education department 2004-, including a
    conducting masterclass with BBC NOW players in Nov. 2004
  • Conductor for "Play it Again" concerts with BBC NOW as part of the BBC's education project and
    BBC 2 Television series
  • Founding director, Rose City Conductor’s Workshop, a professional training program for young
    conductors
  • Cover conductor for entire 1998-9 season of Cincinnati Symphony YP and educational
    programming
  • 1995 National Endowment for the Arts/Chamber Music America Rural Residency as cellist of
    Taliesin Trio
  • Educational concerts and school residencies throughout northeast Arkansas and southeast
    Missouri
-Education-
1993 to date: University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. DMA (ABD) degree in
1991-1993: University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music. MM in cello performance
1986-1990: Indiana University, Bloomington, School of Music. BM in cello performance

Other education:
  • 2001: National Conducting Institute, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and National
    Symphony Orchestra
  • 2000: American Academy of Conducting at Aspen (Aspen Fellow)
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