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Accessible Orchestral Repertoire is a repertoire and programming resource for any conductor who leads a non-professional symphonic orchestra. Modeled on and complimentary to Daniels' Orchestral Music, the book will help every conductor selecting repertoire that will feature and enrich individual non-professional ensembles.
About the author
This season Daniel Chetel concludes his five-year tenure as the Music Director and Conductor of the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras to join the faculty of Augustana College where he will lead the Augustana Symphony Orchestra and serve as an assistant professor of music. Dr. Chetel has served as the Assistant Conductor for the UK Opera Theatre and the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras. He has also led the UK Symphony Orchestra at subscription concerts, educational outreach concerts, and special events. In addition, Dr. Chetel currently serves as the Conductor of the UK Philharmonia at the University of Kentucky School of Music. Dr. Chetel has served as the Conductor of the UK Opera Theatre's Annual Undergraduate Production, Cover Conductor for the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, and guest conductor of the Reading Symphony Orchestra in Reading, PA.
A strong believer in music education, Dr. Chetel worked for the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras as Program Coordinator for the BYSO's Intensive Community Program, a rigorous stringed instrument curriculum serving underrepresented youth throughout Boston. In the summer of 2008 Dr. Chetel traveled to Acarigua, Venezuela to work with a nucleo of the nation-wide Venezuelan Youth Orchestra System, El Sistema. CKYO's new community music initiative North Limestone MusicWorks is based on the philosophies and practices of El Sistema.
As an operatic conductor Dr. Chetel has worked for DiCapo Opera (NY), University of Kentucky Opera Theatre, University of Maryland Opera Studio, Newton Symphony (MA), Dunster House Opera Society (MA), and the Reading Symphony Orchestra (PA).
Summary
Accessible Orchestral Repertoire is a repertoire and programming resource for any conductor who leads a non-professional symphonic orchestra. The volume will be helpful to every conductor in the process of selecting repertoire that will both feature and enrich individual non-professional ensembles.
