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Dr. Robert
Vodnoy is the Director of Orchestral
Activities/Associate Professor of Strings at
Northern
State
University, where he conducts the Aberdeen
University/Civic Symphony and teaches History of Music III/IV, String
Methods, and applied violin, viola, cello and double bass. He has also
taught Introduction to Arts
Management. Vodnoy brings 34 years of professional conducting experience
to the AUCS.
Extremely active as a professional conductor, Vodnoy is
the newly appointed conductor of the Huron Symphony Orchestra. He has just
completed his tenth season as the Music Director of the Whiting Park
Festival Orchestra, a professional summer festival orchestra in northwest Indiana which performs
from mid-July through Labor Day. In the summers, Vodnoy also teaches as an
adjunct professor in the graduate school at Valparaiso University.
He is President-Elect of the South Dakota Chapter of the American String
Teacher Association.
Vodnoy has guest conducted numerous orchestras throughout
the United States, including the Bellevue Philharmonic Orchestra, Billings
Symphony, Mississippi Symphony, Jacksonville
Symphony, the Orchestra of the Colorado
Music Festival, and the Wisconsin Chamber
Orchestra. Internationally, he has guest conducted the Orchestra of
the Zhejiang Song and Dance Theatre (China), Czech National Symphony,
Orchestra Sinfonica de San Remo, National
Philharmonic of Taiwan, Seoul Philharmonic, and the Jönköping Symphony. In
the Great Plains, he conducted the J. Laiten Weed All-State Honors Orchestra
at the 2007 SDMEA Conference in Brookings, on the North Dakota All-State
String Festival in Bismarck
in 2006, and was guest string orchestra conductor for the Rushmore Junior
High Music Camp for two summers.
Dr. Vodnoy holds a B.M. summa cum laude and M.M. in
composition from Hartt College of the University
of Hartford, and a D.M. in
Orchestral Conducting from
Indiana
University. He also
studied conducting at the
Monteux
Center for Conductors and
Orchestral Training. His orchestral compositions include Heart of Fire
(2005), Moving Bridges (2001), Warrior (1997), and
Generations (1996). Heart of Fire
was performed by the South Dakota Symphony and the Omaha Symphony in
2009.
Vodnoy was the Music Director of the Southwest Michigan
Symphony Orchestra from 1975-2005 and Music Director of the Northwest
Indiana Symphony Orchestra from 1976-96. He has conducted performances with
artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Andre Watts, Marilyn Horne, and with the
Grand Rapids Ballet, the Michigan Opera Theatre, and the Indianapolis Ballet
Theatre. In the summer of 2008, he performed duo-violin concerts with
violinist Eric Lawson in Whiting and Valparaiso,
Indiana
and Alpena and Glen Arbor,
Michigan. He was a member of the Hartford Symphony
Orchestra from 1969-72. Vodnoy performs on a 1932 Iginio Siega violin.
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