Education Initiatives

Guest Conducting: Festivals (District/Regional/State/Independent); Honor Ensembles; Rehearsals/clinics; Workshops; Artist in Residence

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Workshops/ In-Person Ensemble Masterclasses: orchestras and wind ensembles/wind symphonies at your location.

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Masterclasses and Individual Clinics: By appointment - in person or via zoom

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Clinic/Conference Session Titles:

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-The Music Behind The Notes: A Musical Conductor knows when to empower and when to inform.

-Conducting: Empowerment and insight

-Your Musical Performance: Score Study/Gesture Development/Preparation

-The Repertoire IS The Curriculum: Quality Repertoire will take you there

-We Now Have an Orchestra - I'm the Band Guy - What do I do now?!

-Smooth Transitions from wind conductor to orchestral conductor

-I'm juggling while riding a bike AND I'm on fire: proven techniques to manage your program and ensembles

-Breath As Me: How to achieve "oneness" with your ensemble 

-Feelings and Emotions - NOT the same: How to regain feeling into your rehearsals

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GEKOSKIE FEATURED IN NATIONAL MAGAZINE - SBO Magazine Click HERE to view

 

2024 RECENT NOTABLE EDUCATIONAL GUEST CONDUCTING ENGAGEMENT
 

Abravanel Hall - Salt Lake City, Utah

UMEA Utah All State Philharmonic Orchestra -  January 18-20, 2024

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Tan Dun-Passacaglia: History of Wind and Birds

Full unedited performance recording: click HERE

 

Hindemith- Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

Full unedited performance recording: click HERE

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NOTABLE WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERTS CONDUCTED

 

 

Carnegie Hall - NYC - Ensemble Debut Series

 

Hindemith - March from Symphonic Metamorphosis (trans. K Wilson)

Whitacre - October

Ticheli - Blue Shades

Bolcom - Song

Bernstein - Overture to Candide

 

 

MENC National Convention - Minneapolis - Featured HS Ensemble

 

Strauss - Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare

Ticheli - Vesuvius

Biebl / Cameron - Ave Maria with operatic baritone (world premiere) - Jonathan Hays Baritone

Ewazen - Shadowcatcher - with special guest - The US Army Brass Quintet

Bryant - Dusk (world premiere)

Daugherty - Bells for Stokowski

 

 

Western International Band Clinic - Seattle - Featured HS Ensemble

 

Arnold/Paynter - Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo

McMichael - Pax

Holst - First Suite in Eb

Daugherty - U.F.O - featuring John Kilkenny percussion soloist

Bryant - Dusk

Rodriguez - Mosaico Mexicano for wind ensemble - (world premiere)

 

 

Music For All National Concert Festival - Indianapolis - Featured HS Ensemble

 

Shostakovich/Reynolds - Prelude in E-flat minor, opus 34, No. 14

Woolfenden - Illyrian Dances

Lauridsen/Reynolds - O Magnum Mysterium

Corigliano - Gazebo Dances for Band

 

 

Bands of America National Concert Festival - Indianapolis - Featured HS Ensemble

 

Ito - Gloriosa

Hindemith/K.Wilson - Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria Von Weber

Bryant - Dusk
Tchaikovsky/Cramer - Dance of the Jesters

 

Pennsylvania Music Educators State Convention - Valley Forge, PA -Featured HS Ensemble

 

Whitacre - Ghost Train

Ponchielli/H. Howey - Concerto per Flicorno Basso - William Kellerman guest soloist

Biebl/Cameron - Ave Maria

Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy

 

 

MENC All Eastern Music Educators Convention - New York - Featured HS Ensemble

 

Nelson - Resonances I

Ponchielli/H. Howey - Concert per Flicorno Basso - William Kellerman guest soloist
Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy

Shostakovich/Reynolds - Folk Dances

 

Salzburg/Vienna/Prague Concert Tour - Featured Ensemble

 

Nelson - Resonances I

Rodriguez - Elegy & Rondo for cello and wind ensemble (world premiere) -Sean Neidlinger,cello

Whitacre - October

Mackey - Aurora Awakes

Bernstein - Overture to Candide

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Extensive Education CV available upon request.

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