Joseph Pollard White

Conducting Visiting Professor (Orchestra), Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA; 2001-present

Conductor/Violist, Seattle Music, Seattle, WA; 1996-present

Music Director, Rainier Symphony, Kent, WA; 1986-1996

University of Washington School of Music; 1985-91
Teaching Assistant/Assistant Conductor, University Opera

Conductor, Washington Composers' Forum, Seattle, WA; 1987-88

Music Director, Civic Light Opera, Seattle, WA; 1986

Music Director, Orchestre Nova, Monroeville, PA; 1985

Music Director, Pittsburgh String Consort, Pittsburgh, PA; 1980-84

Instructor, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA; 1980-81

Education

Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting University of Washington School of Music , 1991

Dissertation: The Development of a Cosmopolitan Style in Early 20th Century American Symphonies

Student of Robert Feist

Master of Music in Viola Performance Indiana University School of Music , 1982

Student of Georges Janzer

Bachelor of Arts cum laude in Music University of Rochester-Eastman School of Music , 1979

Student of David Effron, Heidi Castleman, Robert DeCormier, Taavo Virkhaus

Competitions/Masterclasses

Symphonic Workshops Int'l Conducting Competition, Zlin, Czech Republic; 1992
Masterclass of Jonathan Sternberg and Kirk Trevor

Masterplayer's International Conducting Competition, Lugano, Switzerland; 1989
Masterclass of Richard Schumacher

American Symphony Orchestra League Conducting Workshops
with Kenneth Kiesler and Gustav Meier, Salt Lake City, UT; 1994
with Lawrence Leighton Smith, Los Angeles, CA; 1987

Conductors' Guild Workshop
with David Effron, Chautauqua, NY; 1994

Pierre Monteux-Domaine Seminar, Hancock, ME; 1979,1980
Masterclass of Charles Bruck

Compositions

Three Electronic Etudes, 1978
Etude for Viola and small ensemble, 1978
Processional for Organ, 1981
String Quartet, 1984
Five Pieces for Orchestra, 1989
Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra, 1990
Rhapsody (for orchestra), 1993
Floating Bridge (for wind ensemble), 1995
Album for string orchestra, 2000
Concerto for Oboe d'Amore and Orchestra, in progress


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