Youth and Education
Residency Programmes
Associate Conductor Residency Programme
Through a nation-wide search via Orchestras Canada, viva voce interviews, and live auditions, the KSO selects one emerging gifted conductor, who is provided with opportunities to lead up to 20 sectional rehearsals per concert season, to perform with the orchestra, to give pre-concert lectures, and to conduct one or more concert(s).
The resident Associate Conductor for the 2010 | 2011 season is Scott Harrison.
Assistant Conductor Residency Programme
Through a nation-wide search via Orchestras Canada, viva voce interviews, and live auditions, the KSO identifies one young conductor, who is provided with opportunities to gain professional conducting experience under the mentorship of the Music Director. The Assistant Conductor leads sectional rehearsals, may perform with the orchestra, may give pre-concert lectures, and may conduct one or more concert(s).
The resident Assistant Conductor for the 2010 | 2011 and 2010 | 2011
seasons is Keith
Reid.
The resident Assistant Conductor for the 2009 | 2010 season was Scott Harrison.
Canadian Composer-In-Residence Programme
With the support of the SOCAN Foundation, the KSO invites established Canadian composers to participate in a 3–5 day residency in order to increase the interest in and support for contemporary Canadian music and its performance. KSO resident composers may write a new work for a premiere with the KSO, give composition workshops and a seminars about their compositional methods and oversee reading sessions and recordings of newly written works by young Canadian composers.
The composer-in-residence for the 2011 | 2012 season is Brian
Current.
The composers-in-residence for the 2010 | 2011 season are Larysa Kuzmenko and Gary Kulesha.