2024 Nebraska All-State Orchestra

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Conductor Info
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The following information will be posted at a later time:
Audition Registration Dates, Repertoire List, Audition Manuals

 

2024 ALL-STATE ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Emmy award-winning and Grammy-nominated conductor, celebrates 35 years of professional conducting, and with a deep commitment to passing his experience on to the next generation of musicians, he is currently The Mary Franks Thompson Professor of Orchestral Studies at Baylor University, and Music Director of the Baylor Symphony Orchestra where in addition to performing, he teaches orchestral conducting at the undergraduate and graduate level.

He has also established The Conducting Institute to teach the fundamentals of conducting to students ages high school and up, of all levels, through intensive summer and winter programs, workshops, courses, and seminars.

Harth-Bedoya has amassed considerable experience at the helm of orchestras, including recently completing tenures as Chief Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and as Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, where he now holds the title of Music Director Laureate. Previously he has held Music Director positions with the Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand, the Eugene Symphony in Oregon, the Lima Philharmonic Orchestra in Peru, and the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall. He also held the Director of Orchestral Studies position at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

Harth-Bedoya conducts orchestras worldwide such as the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, BBC Orchestra, Birmingham Orchestra, National Orchestra of Spain, New Zealand Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, NHK Symphony, and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, among others.

Born and raised in Peru, Harth-Bedoya received both of his degrees in orchestral conducting from the Curtis Institute of Music (BM) and from The Juilliard School (MM), both under the guidance of Otto-Werner Mueller. He also received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Texas Christian University.

2024 AUDITION MATERIALS

The 2024 NMEA All-State Orchestra auditions will include:
  • Scales
  • Etudes Set 2 from common repertoire (For some instruments, there may be multiple etudes.)
  • An excerpt from the All-State Orchestra music (which will be made available on the NMEA website in August)

1. All-State Scale Sheets (click each link to download)

Scale selections for the 2024 audition season will be announced in September

Major Scales Minor Scales
Bass Major Scales Bass Minor Scales
Cello Major Scales Cello Minor Scales
Viola Major Scales Viola Minor Scales
Violin Major Scales Violin Minor Scales

 

2. All-State Etudes (click each link to download)

WITH Bowings WITHOUT Bowings
Bass Etudes Bowed Bass Etudes
Cello Etudes Bowed  Cello Etudes
Viola Etudes Bowed Viola Etudes
Violin Etudes Bowed Violin Etudes
  Harp Etudes

 

3. All-State Orchestra Music Excerpts (coming in August)