Sample of conducting opportunities for MM wind conducting student
Brian Diller came to Ithaca College in the fall of 2010 from a public school position in Nashville. After he graduates, he plans to continue his conducting study as a doctoral student at one of the nation's leading schools of music.
- 2010-2011
- Wind Ensemble
- Ito: Festal Scenes (September concert)
- Portnoy: Sasha Takes a Train (December concert)
- Symphonic Band
- Tull: Sketches on a Tudor Psalm (March concert)
- Fucik: Florentiner (April concert)
- Trombone Choir
- Tour to Washington, D.C. and performance at Eastern Trombone Workshop
- Recitals
- Campus Band (graduate conductor for December concert)
- Symphony Orchestra
- Rite of Spring (rehearsal)
- Brahms: Symphony #1 (rehearsal)
- Chamber Orchestra
- recording sessions for student arrangements
- Wind Ensemble
- 2011-2012
- Wind Ensemble
- Reed: La Fiesta Mexicana, mvt. 1 (September concert)
- Elective recital October 29, 2011
- Mozart: Serenade in C Minor, k388
- Copland: Appalachian Spring
- Concert Band
- Hanani: Wind Borne (October concert)
- Trombone Troupe
- All performances at IC and spring tour to Vermont
- Syracuse Opera, Assistant Conductor (October, La Traviata)
- Symphony Orchestra
- Brahms: Symphony #4 (rehearsal)
- MM Recital: April 4, 2012
- Janacek: Sokol Fanfare
- Ibert: Concerto for Cello and Winds
- Heidi Hoffman, cello
- Theofanadis: I Wander in a Dream of my Own Making
- Wagner: Huldigungsmarsch
- Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis
- Campus Band (graduate conductor for April concert)
- Wind Ensemble
Brian participates in the Graduate Seminar in conducting with clinicians Stephen Peterson (wind ensemble) Jeff Meyer (orchestra), and Brian Demaris (opera). Repertoire conducted with over two years: Beethoven: Symphony #3 in Eb, Beethoven: Symphony #5 in C Minor, Brahms: Symphony #1 in C and Symphony #4 in E Minor, Dvorak: Serenade in D Minor, Gounod: Faust, Mozart: Symphony #41 in C, Mozart: The Magic Flute, Mozart: Serenade in C Minor k.388, Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Tchaikovsky: Symphony #4 in F Minor, and Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde.
