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Keith Dudenbostel began working as a preparation
and cover conductor for the Manhattan
School of Music in the fall of 2008, preparing
the student orchestras for such eminent conductors
as Kenneth Kiesler, Yoav Talmi, H. Robert
Reynolds, and Alan Kay. He has also conducted
a number of recording for the Pacific
Opera/Pacific Encore Performances repertory
company. This summer, he will serve his third
season as assistant conductor of the Seattle
Youth Symphony's Marrowstone
Music Festival, a two-week intensive orchestral
training program for students aged 13-23.
At
the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where
he earned his Masters Degree in Orchestral
Conducting, Dudenbostel has served as assistant
conductor on productions of Puccini's La
Bohème and Handel's Giulio
Cesare. Prior to moving to Kansas City,
he was extremely active as a theatrical conductor
at Western Washington University in Bellingham,
Washingtion, leading performances of Die
Fledermaus, Sweeney Todd, and Lee Hoiby's
Bon Appetit! among others. He also
held the position of Music Director for three
seasons of WWU Summer Stock Theatre, directing
productions of The Sound of Music, A Funny
Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and
West Side Story.
A
champion of new music, he founded and directed
the Western Washington University Composers'
Ensemble, a group dedicated solely to the
rehearsal and performance of student compositions.
Ryan
Dudenbostel has studied conducting with Robert
Olson, David Wallace, Kenneth Kiesler, Gustav
Meier and Rossen Milanov. He was a participant
in the 2004 International Conducting Workshop
in Sofia, Bulgaria, and studied at the Conductors
Retreat at Medomak in rural Maine in the summer
of 2007.
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