University of Indianapolis Conducting Workshop

The University of Indianapolis Wind Conducting Workshop is designed to give inspiring, hands-on experience to conductors of diverse skill levels - college students, educators, professional, or community musicians. Our philosophy is to help you achieve your next level of musical artistry by encouraging you through your conducting. If you come with an open mind and open heart, you will have a transformative experience. This is not an introductory workshop, some experience is required.

Repertoire:
This is the repertoire for the UIndy Conducting Workshop. It is best if conductors should bring the scores to all of the pieces to the workshop. If you still need to purchase any of the scores, Jeff Girard at Gateway Sheet Music has set copies of our scores aside and will get them to you very quickly. Visit this link to order:

Bourgeois, Serenade

Chen, Spring Festival

Dello Joio, Scenes from the Louvre

Grainger, Country Gardens

Lathem, Three Chorale Preludes (mvmts 1 and 3)

Price, Adoration

Ticheli, Cajun Folk Songs

Turina/van der Beek - Ensueno from Danzas Fantasticas

Whitacre, Ghost Train (mvmt 1 only)

Whitacre, Lux Aurumque

Vaughan Williams, English Folk Song Suite

Other repertoire TBA

In early 2026, I will send out a link asking participants for their preference of pieces to conduct. As you look over the repertoire, please consider and prepare four different pieces/movements to conduct. Two of your choices will be the pieces you work on in your first two conducting sessions, the third is your suggestion of a possible piece to rehearse and conduct on the concert. The fourth is a backup for the concert. For the conducting sessions, one piece should be one that you know well and the other should be a stretch for you. Your selections may be one movement from a larger multi-movement piece. If you select the Dello Joio, Ticheli, or Vaughan Williams, please prepare the entire piece. The faculty will assign your third piece/movement and will work with you on it during your third conducting session and dress rehearsal. These assignments will be based on your suggestions, strengths, and goals, as well as what we feel will best benefit you in the concert setting. Due to the popularity of some of the works, you might be asked to conduct a movement that you did not originally request. Please be prepared for that. You will receive your conducting assignments in early February. The Turina will be an option for you to conduct in the workshop, however, Dr. Sedatole will lead the piece in concert. Similarly, in concert, I will conduct pieces/movements that are not requested by participants.

Conducting Sessions: All participants will receive real-time training and feedback on your conducting technique while on the podium. All sessions will be recorded on video by the UIndy Music Tech department and saved to a Google Drive folder after the completion of the workshop. You will receive a link to your videos roughly a week later. Additionally, on Friday night, a professional photographer will be shooting candid photos of all participants when you are on the podium. These will be shared in a Google Drive Folder as well.

Instruments: Participants should bring their instrument to the workshop and play in the ensemble during the podium sessions when not conducting. Participants will have the option of playing in the ensemble for the concert, but it is not required.

Concert: All participants will conduct the UIndy Symphonic Wind Ensemble in concert on Sunday afternoon. This public performance will be recorded (video and audio) and may be used for audition purposes.

Concert Attire: All Black - tuxedos are not required, but if this is your only option, you may certainly wear one.

Kevin Sedatole serves as Director of Bands and Professor of Music at the Michigan State University College of Music. At MSU, Professor Sedatole serves as administrator of the entire band program totaling over 700 students that includes the Wind Symphony, Symphony Band, Concert Band, Chamber Winds, Campus Bands, Spartan Marching Band and Spartan Brass. He also guides the graduate wind-conducting program in addition to conducting the MSU Wind Symphony.

Prior to joining MSU, he was director of bands and associate professor of conducting at Baylor University. Previous to his appointment at Baylor he served as associate director of bands at the University of Texas and director of the Longhorn Band, and as associate director of bands at the University of Michigan and Stephen F. Austin State University.

Sedatole has conducted performances for the College Band Directors National Association, American Bandmasters Association, Texas Music Educators Association, Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, and the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, as well as performances in Carnegie Hall. He has conducted across the United States and Europe. Most recently the MSU Wind Symphony, under the direction of Professor Sedatole, has given featured performances at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic held in Chicago, Ill. and at the national conventions of the College Band Directors’ National Association held in Austin, Texas and Kansas City, Missouri. Performances conducted by Professor Sedatole have won accolades from prominent composers including Robert Beaser, John Corigliano, Michael Colgrass, Donald Grantham, David Maslanka, Ricardo Lorenz, Michael Daugherty, John Mackey, Jonathan Newman, Carter Pann, Joel Puckett, Dan Welcher as well as many others. Professor Sedatole also serves on the summer faculty of the Interlochen Music Camp, Board of Directors for the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic and as the president of the CBDNA North Central division. His international engagements include residencies at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, Tokyo, Japan and the Mid Europe Festival, Schladming, Austria.

Jon Noworyta, is the Associate Professor of Music and Director of Bands, Instrumental Activities, and Educational Outreach at the University of Indianapolis. There, he administers all aspects of the woodwind, brass, and percussion area, teaches courses in conducting and music education, and conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Pep Band, and opera. A versatile conductor who is equally comfortable with orchestras as well as wind or brass groups, Noworyta is the Director of the Crossroads Brass Band of Indianapolis, IN, the Artistic Director of the Queen City Freedom Band of Cincinnati, and the former Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Noworyta is a twenty-one-year veteran public school music educator. Ensembles under his direction have given notable local, state, national, and international performances, the most significant being Carnegie Hall in 2009, the 2010 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, and the 2012 Music for All National Festival. Noworyta has led groups at such legendary venues as Chicago's Symphony Center, the Kennedy Center, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Carnegie Hall.

Professionally, Noworyta has collaborated with members of the Buffalo and Dayton philharmonics, the Elgin, Knoxville, and Indianapolis symphonies, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra. Noworyta has accompanied world-renowned pianist James Tocco in concerti by George Gershwin and David Maslanka.

Noworyta’s professional affiliations have included the NAFME, CBDNA, WASBE, NABBA, NBA, Pride Bands Alliance, GLSEN, the Conductors Guild, and the Indiana, Illinois, New York (NYSSMA) and Ohio Music Educators Associations. He is an editor for the Indiana Music Educators Association publication, INfORM, and is listed in the Who's Who in America Educator's Edition. Noworyta was recently inducted into the Phi Beta Mu International Bandmaster Fraternity.

A Western New York native, Noworyta holds degrees from Baldwin-Wallace University (BME), Northwestern University (MM), and the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati (DMA). Additional study at the Eastman School of Music, the New England Conservatory, and the Juilliard School, has given Noworyta the opportunity to work with the major conducting pedagogues in the field today.

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