This summer, Grammy Award-winning conductor and Albany Symphony Music Director David Alan Miller returns to the NOI stage. He’ll lead a concert of American Masterworks that will be recorded live and released on renowned classical music label NAXOS. We spoke with him about his most moving orchestral experiences, his return to NOI and his vision of the symphony orchestra’s future.
Tell us about a particularly moving orchestra concert that has stuck with you.
For nearly 30 years, the National Orchestral Institute + Festival has been a training ground for orchestral musicians on the precipice of their professional careers. NOI alumni occupy positions in nearly every major American orchestra as well as numerous positions in premiere service bands. Many others are teachers, college professors and arts administrators. 
When theatre educators are EMPOWERED, theatre education THRIVES.
MTEA THRIVE Conference is a theatre educator empowerment conference with experiential workshops that are designed to give theatre educators the opportunity to explore their craft.
Join in as the Spring class of the Junior Academy for the Performing Arts (JAPA) struts their stuff performing some of Broadway's greatest and most loved moments!
____Face symposium is a daylong scholarly and performance event examining the history and cultural reverberations of racial masquerade. Specifically, the symposium looks to flip the script on past research that considers racial masquerade as a means of white identity formation, instead highlighting how scholars and artists of color engage with and subvert the performance technologies of black, red, yellow, brown, and whiteface as they have traveled across time, idiom, sense, and medium.
Join 2016 Fischoff gold medalists WindSync for an interactive session about entrepreneurship and community engagement through chamber music. The group is known for initiatives that harness unconventional performance practices, creative placemaking based on civic design, and educational outreach. WindSync will perform excerpts from its concert programming and share ideas about turning your passion project into a career in music.
