Ryan Keith Dudenbostel

Ryan Keith Dudenbostel is currently a Teaching Associate at UCLA, where he co-directs the UCLA Symphony and serves as an Assistant Conductor in performances by the UCLA Philharmonia and Opera Studio. Prior to relocating to Los Angeles, he served as a preparation and cover conductor for the Manhattan School of Music since 2008, preparing the student orchestras and wind ensemble for such eminent conductors as Philippe Entremont, Kenneth Kiesler, Yoav Talmi, H. Robert Reynolds, and Alan R. Kay. He made his New York opera conducting debut in 2010, leading performances of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci with the Pocket Opera of New York. He has also conducted a number of recordings for the Pacific Opera/Pacific Encore Performances repertory company. This past summer, he returned for a fourth season as Associate Conductor of the Seattle Youth Symphony's Marrowstone Music Festival, a two-week intensive orchestral training program for young artists.

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 active as a theatrical conductor at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washingtion, leading performances of Die Fledermaus, Sweeney Todd, and Lee Hoiby's Bon Appétit! 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. He also founded and directed the Western Washington University Composers' Ensemble, a group dedicated solely to the rehearsal and performance of student compositions, in 2005.

Ryan Dudenbostel has studied conducting with Neal Stulberg, 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. He is cuttently pursuing doctoral studies in conducting at UCLA.

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Repertoire List

Works Conducted

Bach
Beethoven
Berlioz
Bernstein
Bernstein
Brahms
Copland
Copland
Gounod
Handel
Haydn
Hindemith
Hoiby
Leoncavallo
Mahler
Mendelssohn
Mussorgsky
Prokofiev
Ravel
A. Reed
Rorem
Sarasate
Schubert
Shostakovich
Sondheim
J. Strauss
R. Strauss
Stravinsky
Stravinsky
Stravinsky
Stravinsky
Tchaikovsky
Tower
Villa-Lobos
Vivaldi
Wagner
Wagner
Weber
Orchestral Suite No. 1
Overture to Coriolanus
Roman Carnival Overture
West Side Story
Trouble in Tahiti
Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16
Fanfare for the Common Man
Suite from The Red Pony
Petite Symphonie
Giulio Cesare
Concerto for Cello in D Major
Hin und zuruk
Bon Appétit!
Pagliacci
Das Himmlische Leben
Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream
Songs and Dances of Death
Symphony No. 1 ("Classical")
Ma mere l'oye
Russian Christmas Music
Three Sisters who are not Sisters
Zigeunerweisen
Symphony No. 5
Festive Overture
Sweeney Todd
Die Fledermaus
Serenade in E-flat, op. 7
Concerto in E-flat ("Dumbarton Oaks")
Eight Instrumental Miniatures
Suite No. 2 for Small Orchestra
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Capriccio Italien
Black Topaz
Bachianas Brasilieras No. 8
The Four Seasons, Op. 8 Nos. 1 and 2
Overture to The Flying Dutchman
Siegfried Idyll
Bassoon Concerto

Works Studied

Bach
Bartók
Bartók
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
Berlioz
Bernstein
Bizet
Brahms
Brahms
Brahms
Brahms
Britten
Copland
Copland
Corigliano
Debussy
Debussy
Dvorák
Dvorák
Elgar
de Falla
Mahler
Mendelssohn
Mozart
Mozart
Mozart
Mussorgsky/Ravel
Puccini
Ravel
Ravel
Ravel
Respighi
Schoenberg
Schoenberg
Schuller
Shostakovich
Shostakovich
Shostakovich
Stevens
Strauss
Strauss
Strauss
Stravinsky
Stravinsky
Stravinsky
Stravinsky
Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky
Varèse
Vaughan Williams
Vaughan Williams
Wagner
St. Matthew Passion
Concerto for Orchestra
Dance Suite
Overture to Egmont
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 6
Symphony No. 7
Symphonie Fantastique
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
L'Arlessiene Suites 1 & 2
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 3
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Appalachian Spring
Concerto for Clarinet
Symphony No. 1
La Mer
Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
Symphony No. 9 "New World"
Serenade in D minor
Enigma Variations
The Three-Cornered Hat
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
Symphony No. 34, K. 338
Symphony No. 38, K. 504, "Prague"
Symphony No. 40, K. 550
Pictures at an Exhibition
La Bohéme
Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand
La Valse
Le tombeau de Couperin
Pines of Rome
Five Orchestral Pieces
A Survivor from Warsaw
Viola Concerto
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 6
Symphony No. 7
Journey for Tuba and Orchestra
Death and Transfiguration
Don Quixote
Also Sprach Zarathustra
The Firebird
Petrouchka
The Rite of Spring
Pulcinella Suite
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture
Serenade for Strings
Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, and 6
Violin Concerto
The Nutcracker
Intégrales
A Sea Symphony
Serenade to Music
Siegfried's Rhine Journey

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