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Notable among his studies was his work with the legendary conductor Sergiu Celibidache.
For 20 years co-director of Graduate Conducting (with Gustav Meier) at the Peabody Conservatory, he is Director of Conducting Programs International and frequent Visiting Faculty at the Juan N. Corpas University School of Music in Bogota, Colombia.
As a conductor Maestro Thakar has appeared with some 40 orchestras across North America, in addition to orchestras in Asia and Europe.
Counterpoint: Fundamentals of Music Making (also issued in Italian and Czech) uses species counterpoint to promote an understanding of how both composer and performer contribute to the experience of musical beauty. Thakar is the author of On the Principles and Practice of Conducting (University of Rochester Press, 2016) Looking for the "Harp” Quartet: An Investigation into Musical Beauty (University of Rochester Press, 2011), and Counterpoint: Fundamentals of Music Making (Yale University Press, 1990).
Students of Maestro Thakar have won significant conducting positions across North America and internationally, including music directorships of the Aachen & Bochum Symphony Orchestras and the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, in Germany, the Orchestre national d’Île de France, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Venezuela, the Changwon Philharmonic Orchestra of South Korea, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra of Spain, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Michoacán of Mexico, the Sofia New Symphony Orchestra of Bulgaria, and in the US the symphony orchestras of Winnipeg, Hartford, Charleston, Dayton, Oklahoma City, Eugene, Savannah, Bozeman, El Paso, Lubbock, Muncie, Williamsport, Amarillo, Illinois, Berkeley, Yonkers, Mid-Atlantic, Sioux City, Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Fresno, Lake Forest, Hamilton (Ontario), Washington-Idaho, Young Musician's Foundation, and Grande Ronde Symphony Orchestras.
Notable among his studies was his work with the legendary conductor Sergiu Celibidache. Thakar is the author of On the Principles and Practice of Conducting (University of Rochester Press, 2016) Looking for the "Harp” Quartet: An Investigation into Musical Beauty (University of Rochester Press, 2011), and Counterpoint: Fundamentals of Music Making (Yale University Press, 1990).
Students of Maestro Thakar have won significant conducting positions across North America and internationally, including music directorships in Germany, France, South Korea, Spain, Bulgaria, and across the US and Canada; staff positions with the orchestras of New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, St.
Louis, and Milwaukee, et al. Director of Conducting Programs International, he was for 20 years co-director of Graduate Conducting (with Gustav Meier) at the Peabody Conservatory.
As a conductor Maestro Thakar has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony, and some 40 orchestras across North America, as well as in Asia and Europe.
Baltimore Chamber Orchestra has performed a five-concert tour of China, and has recorded for the Naxos label, including a disk of music by Jonathan Leshnoff named to Naxos’ “Best of the Best” list. And On the Principles and Practice of Conducting is a manual for conductors at all levels.
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Music Director of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and a former assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Maestro Thakar's appearances include concerts with that orchestra and some 40 others across North America.
And On the Principles and Practice of Conducting (University of Rochester Press, 2016) is a manual for conductors at all levels.
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Markand Thakar
Markand Thakar is Music Director of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and Co-Director of Graduate Conducting at the Peabody Conservatory. A former assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Maestro Thakar’s appearances include concerts with some 40 orchestras across North America.
Currently Music Director emeritus of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, his career included stints as Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Associate conductor of the Colorado Symphony, and Music Director of the Duluth Superior Symphony.
Markand Thakar is renowned world-wide as one of the major conducting pedagogues of the 21st century.
Other conducting studies were with Gustav Meier, Max Rudolf and Peter Perret.
Markand Thakar is the author of three seminal books. Counterpoint: Fundamentals of Music Making (Yale University Press), also issued in Italian and Czech, uses species counterpoint to promote an understanding of how both composer and performer contribute to the experience of musical beauty. Looking for the “Harp” Quartet; An Investigation into Musical Beauty (University of Rochester Press, 2011) is a study of musical beauty from the standpoint of the composer, performer and listener.
And in a 12-year tenure as Music Director, the Duluth Superior Symphony saw dramatic growth in both audience and artistic prominence to what Minnesota Public Radio called “Minnesota’s other great orchestra.”
Noted internationally as a pedagogue, he was for over two decades Co-Director of Graduate Conducting at the Peabody Conservatory, and his two annual intensive conducting programs with BCO have drawn conductors from five continents.
Among his students are Grand Prize winners in the Malko, Eduardo Mata, Memphis International, Mario Gusella International, and Fifth International Prokofiev Conducting Competitions. markandthakar.com
MARKAND THAKAR
Core Studies, Conducting
Peabody Institute, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra
Markand Thakar is renowned world-wide as one of the major conducting pedagogues of the 21st century.
His students have won significant conducting positions across North America and internationally, including music directorships with the Aachen (Germany), Winnipeg, Hartford, Eugene, Charleston, Lubbock, Muncie, Williamsport, Amarillo, Young Musician's Foundation, Lake Forest, Mid-Atlantic, Sioux City, Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Lake Charles, Washington-Idaho, and Grande Ronde Symphony Orchestras; staff conducting positions with the Metropolitan Opera and the orchestras of Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Dallas, Seattle, Saint Louis, Portland (OR), Richmond, Winnipeg, Portland (ME), Buffalo, Phoenix, Charlotte, Kansas City, Canton, Winston-Salem, and El Paso; as well as numerous collegiate positions.
Thakar is a protégé of the legendary Sergiu Celibidache, and a former Fulbright Fellow with degrees from The Juilliard School, Columbia University, and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory, with additional studies at the Curtis Institute and the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest, Romania.
Looking for the “Harp” Quartet; An Investigation into Musical Beauty is a study of musical beauty from the standpoint of the composer, performer, and listener. He has appeared with major soloists including Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman, and is a winner of the Geraldine C. and Emory M. Ford Foundation Award.
Noted internationally as a pedagogue, his two annual conducting programs with the BCO draw conductors from around the world.
The BCO has performed a five-concert tour of China and has recorded for Naxos, including an album of music by Jonathan Leshnoff named to Naxos’s “Best of the Best” list. Formerly Music Director of the Duluth Superior Symphony, he is currently Music Director emeritus of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. Students of his have held staff conducting positions with the Metropolitan and Indianapolis Opera Companies, and the orchestras of Philadelphia, New York, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, St.
Louis, Milwaukee, Seattle, Portland (OR), Richmond, Winnipeg, Buffalo, Phoenix, Charlotte, Kansas City, Canton, Portland (ME), Winston-Salem, El Paso, and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, as well as numerous collegiate positions. Since 1996 he has been co-director of graduate conducting at the Peabody Conservatory, with Gustav Meier and subsequently with Marin Alsop; his Peabody students have won significant conducting positions across North America and internationally. Thakar is a protégé of the legendary Sergiu Celibidache and a former Fulbright Fellow with degrees from The Juilliard School, Columbia University, and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory, with additional studies at the Curtis Institute and the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest, Romania.
Other conducting studies were with Gustav Meier, Max Rudolf, and Peter Perret.
Markand Thakar is the author of three seminal books.