Conductor’s Workshop & Immersion Experience
for Emerging Conductors
with GRAMMY®-winning baroque conductor
JEANNETTE SORRELL
Apollo’s Fire (on period instruments) & Apollo’s Singers
November 8-11, 2025
Cleveland, Ohio
REPERTOIRE:
HANDEL: Water Music (selections)
MOZART: Requiem
FREE for qualified participants, thanks to a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In addition, a few travel and hotel stipends are available to qualified young conductors who do not live in Cleveland – made possible by a generous donor.
NEW This Year! – Podium time with a baroque orchestra!
Apollo’s Fire welcomes emerging conductors to join us in Cleveland as we focus on two monuments of early music – one orchestral and one choral.
NEW THIS YEAR:
- Podium time: The highlight of the workshop will be a conducting masterclass with Jeannette Sorrell and an orchestra of period instruments, focusing on Handel’s Water Music. Four conductors will be selected for podium time with the Case Western Reserve University Baroque Orchestra (period instruments), supplemented by members of Apollo’s Fire. Guidance and feedback from Jeannette Sorrell.
- Arts Management sessions for conductors, led by Apollo’s Fire Managing Director David Walker and Arts Administrator Edward Vogel
Participants will also get an exclusive, behind-the-scenes perspective of an Apollo’s Fire performance and filming of Mozart’s Requiem.
Jeannette Sorrell is recognized internationally as one of today’s most compelling interpreters of Baroque and Classical repertoire. She is credited by BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE for “forging a vibrant, life-affirming approach to early music” and hailed by FANFARE Magazine as “a true Mozartian…. Her Mozart achieves a near-perfect combination of real dramatic cogency and the ability to sing.”
SCHEDULE – All venues are within 2 miles of each other.
Participants can come for all 4 days or for a shorter time, as you wish.
Saturday, November 8 (Severance Music Center, Cleveland)
Sunday, November 9 (St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights)
Monday, November 10 (St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights & Harkness Chapel, Case Western Reserve University)
A discussion of how to shape Handel’s outdoor music into a compelling concert performance – instrumentation decisions, tempi, articulation, and more.
A discussion of options and alternatives to the Sussmayr movements; vocal diction; stylistic issues on modern or period instruments, and more.
Tuesday, November 11 (Tudor Arms Hotel, Cleveland)
(FREE) Registration Deadlines & Information:
- For auditors: Wednesday, November 5
- For those wishing to be considered for podium time in the masterclass: 11:59pm EDT on Saturday, November 1.
Please submit your resumé and a video link along with your registration form.
Conductors chosen for podium time will be notified by Wednesday, November 5. - If you are in need of a travel/hotel stipend, please indicate this on the Registration form.
Questions? Contact Edward Vogel at evogel@apollosfire.org.
This project is made possible with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
