Diversity, Mentorship, and Know Your Body Well with Anna Edwards

05/19/22 • 41 min

Conducting is never about swinging your arms - left and right as you command the flow of music to your delight. Conducting is embracing your personal strengths, expressing it through music and letting it create a rippled effect to its viewers and listeners.

This is one of the reasons why Anna Edwards is beyond passionate in breaking the barriers of the conducting industry. She wants aspiring conductors to understand that there's more to it than just waving their arms.

Tune in this episode of the Conductor's Podcast and be enlightened on how Anna fosters diversity and individuality in conducting.

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Tune in this episode of the Conductor's Podcast and be enlightened on how Anna fosters diversity and individuality in conducting.

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The World of Sound and Image with JoAnne Harris

Film scores play a crucial role in cinema. It’s intertwined with visual imagery and is a secret ingredient for a blockbuster hit. It heightens the emotional impact of a movie, creating an aural mood for each scene. If you’re curious to know how they’re made, then this episode is right up your alley!

Meet composer, orchestrator, and conductor for TV, film, and theatre, JoAnne Harris. In this episode, let’s listen to her story on how she was able to land her current job, what it takes to work in the film industry, and some advice that she’ll be giving to aspiring musical composers and conductors.
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JoAnne Harris has conducted and recorded film scores at Abbey Road, East West, The Village, and Avatar with artists such as grammy winning Kurt Elling and members of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Her television work includes score for: Mal de Ojo (HBO), 20/20, Primetime, CNN, and Dateline. She has orchestrated and conducted scores for blockbusters City of Lies and The Infiltrator.

A graduate of Concordia College, JoAnne studied choral composition and conducting with René Clausen. She enjoys teaching at the Feirstein Graduate Center for Cinema (CUNY Brooklyn College), and is a steering committee member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists in New York.

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Organize Your Score, Time, and Journey with Lina Gonzalez Granados

Conductor Lina Gonzalez Granados joined me and shared her experiences in organizing her time, studying scores, and taking care of her health when she was always on the go conducting around the globe.
Some of Lina's Career Highlights:

Third Prize and ECHO Special Award at the Inaugural La Maestra Competition
Named conducting fellow of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Seattle Symphony
Winner of the 4th CSO Sir Georg Solti Conducting Competition and Apprenticeship
Founded Unitas Ensemble, a chamber orchestra dedicated to performing works by Latin-American composers. Since 2014, have given nearly a dozen world, North-American, and U.S. premieres, and released their debut album Estaciones
Selected as one of the final eight participants for the Bernard Haitink Masterclass at the Lucerne Festival
Debut with Tulsa Opera in The Little Prince: First Latina conductor to conduct a mainstage performance in a U.S. Opera House
Selected for the 2017 Linda and Mitch Hart Institute at the Dallas Opera: First Hispanic Conductor ever selected. Mentored by Carlo Montanaro, Marin Alsop, and Nicole Paiement
Feature Articles in the Boston Globe, Seattle Times, CNN, TELEMUNDO, Semana

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