1. Access to world-class expertise: Learn from a teacher who has worked with some of the world's leading orchestras and maestros, gaining insights and techniques that are difficult to find elsewhere.

2. Personalized instruction: Receive personalized feedback and guidance on your conducting skills, tailored to your individual needs and goals.

3. Convenient and flexible: Study at your own pace and on your own schedule, with online courses and resources that are accessible from anywhere in the world.

Eduardo Portal Martin

Passion for conducting Academy

Q&A December 2023

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3 The Exercise

Contact with sound

How to Study Scores Efficiently

Learning from the best - Salonen conducts the Rite of Spring

🙀 Is it my fault?

Technical Challenge - Rhythm

Rehearse fast - Rehearse slow

Inside Musical Theatre – a Musical Director’s view. With Martyn Saville

Learning from the best - Boulez in rehearsal with the Vienna Philharmonic

Andres Kaljuste. Psychology of tutti, co-principal and principal string players

Composers dealing with conductors - Conductors dealing with composers. Dr Des Oliver

Playing under world class conductors

Cathal Garvey. Conducting the great Choral-Orchestral repertoire

How professional players perceive conductors. Abimael Melendez & Lidia Khaner

Symphonic works written by female composers

Majella Clarke. Conducting live performances with electroacoustic music

From educator to conductor. The journey. Geoff Neuman

Conducting workshops around the world

Prepare yourself for a competition. Dmitry Matvienko

The Upbeat

Part 4 Beating Patterns

Tempo Changes

Tempo transitions

The independence of the arms

Working with strings

Maghek, the recording

Trial by fire

La forza del destino

Experiences in the life of a conductor

How to study scores efficiently

Rehearsal Techniques

How to get things together

How to work with a String Section

How to work with a woodwind section

How to work with a Woodwind section

Rehearsing with undisciplined ensembles

Working with Sound

Working with sound

Improve intonation in any ensemble

Improve Intonation in any ensemble

Phrasing, what is possible and what is not

Career Management for Conductors

Career Management for Conductors. Federico Hernández

Amateur, student and professional orchestras - Differences in approach

What makes the Vienna Philharmonic so special. Christoph Koncz

Contemporary scores. How to handle them?

Accompanying soloists. How should I conduct?

Building the largest Choral Programme in the UK. Benjamin Saunders

The conductor's facial expression

Starting a professional conducting career

How to work with a brass section

Let's analyse Beethoven 7. First movement

Conducting singers. Are they really so different?

Transform an ensemble in your rehearsals

The rite of spring

Roderick Williams OBE. Conducting Singers - How to handle the divas

18 Rehearsal tips (from my own experience)

Stage layout - how to decide

Concert venues - What to expect, what to do

How to work with a percussion section

Wagner the conductor - Dr Nicholas Logie

How do I read Dvorak´s New World symphony?

Conflicts in Rehearsal

Musical images. Do they actually help?

Classical repertoire with modern orchestras - The Joy of Life

Making a winning conducting video

Orchestral textures in the romantic period

Conducting competitions. Ideas for success

Common mistakes in rehearsal

Debussy. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Passion for conducting Academy

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