William Conable

Cellist

William Conable is Professor of Music at the Ohio State University, where he has taught since 1972. He has appeared as soloist with the Columbus, Youngstown, Springfield, Knox County, and Welsh Hills Symphonies and with the Ohio State University Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. For eleven years he was Principal Cellist of the Columbus Symphony, and has served in the same position for the Youngstown and Springfield Symphonies and the Dayton Opera. He is a member of the Cipriani Trio and Principal Cellist and Chamber Music Coordinator for the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria. In June 2008 he will retire to Spokane, Washington.

He holds the doctorate from Boston University, where he studied with Richard Kapuscinski and Leslie Parnas as a Danforth Fellow. His BA is from the University of Illinois, where he studied with Peter Farrell. He also studied cello in London with Christopher Bunting, and chamber music with Stanley Fletcher, Bela Nagy, Leonard Shure, and John Garvey.

He has been teaching cello and chamber music at the college level since 1968 and has students in orchestras, universities, and chamber groups all over the country. His teaching draws not only on training with a series of extraordinary musicians and technicians, but also on his extensive study of the Alexander Technique (see below).

He is a musical scholar, specializing in music of the Baroque period. His editions of four sonatas by Giacobbo Cervetto are published by Bärenreiter Verlag, and he is now publishing regularly on SibeliusMusic.com. He has received warm praise for his interpretations of contemporary music as well. A recent performance of Krzysztof Penderecki's Per Slava drew warm praise from the composer and was described by the Columbus Dispatch as a "haunting performance [which] spoke eloquently in the composer's individual voice." Recently he has concertized in Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, and China as well as the US with pianist Rosemary Platt, his collaborator for 30 years. He plays the famed "Rose" Tecchler cello of 1711 and a cello specially made for him by Edward Campbell.

William Conable's schedule of performances and workshops is posted below. He is available for concerts, master-classes and workshops upon request.

Alexander Teacher

William Conable enjoys worldwide renown as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, a method for improving freedom and ease of movement and physical coordination which is of special interest to musicians and other performing artists. He studied first with Marjorie L. Barstow, the first graduate of F. M. Alexander's first teacher training course, beginning in the summer of 1962. During graduate school he studied with Frank Pierce Jones, who undertook the first scientific research into Alexander's discoveries at Tufts University. In 1965 Professor Conable also studied at Walter Carrington's Alexander teacher training school in London. Beginning in 1971, he continued his study with Marjorie Barstow, which continued steadily for the next fifteen years. He is her senior teaching student.

In 1973 with Ms. Barstow's support he initiated the first class in the Alexander Technique offered at an American university. It continues today and draws students not only from the School of Music but from the whole university. In the mid-1970's, he began developing the concept of Body-mapping, which is widely recognized as a major contribution to the theory and pedagogy of the Alexander Technique. He has presented papers and workshops on this development and Alexander teacher training courses in the US and Japan and at conventions of both Alexander teachers and music teachers. Body mapping is at the core of two books, How to Learn the Alexander Technique, which he co-authored with Barbara Conable, and What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body, which was written by Barbara Conable with Benjamin Conable. Both these books are available through normal commercial channels and also directly from the publisher, Andover Press and have been translated into Spanish and Japanese. Barbara Conable has developed an organization, Andover Educators, which is dedicated to training teachers of Body mapping.

In recent years, Conable has been studying energy healing with James Kepner, Carol DeSanto, Rosalyn Bruyere, and Shelby Hammitt. He is certified in Nervous System Energy Work, a new discipline being developed by Kepner and DeSanto.

William Conable offers instruction in the Alexander Technique both in his Ohio State University classes, at an annual workshop in Columbus, Ohio sponsored by Alexander Workshops, Inc., and in workshops sponsored by organizations all over the world. In recent years he has taught at KAPPA and ATA, two Alexander teacher training programs in Japan, at Tunghai University, Taipei Municipal Teachers College, Taipei National Teachers College, and Taitung Teachers College in Taiwan, at the Federal University of the State of Goias in Goiania, Brazil, and at the National Youth Orchestra Foundation in Santiago, Chile, among others. His schedule is published below and he is available for classes, lessons, and workshops upon request.

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Cellist William Conable is Professor of Music at the Ohio State University, where he has taught since 1972. He has appeared as soloist with the Columbus, Youngstown, Springfield, Knox County, and Welsh Hills Symphonies and with the Ohio State University Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. For eleven years he was Principal Cellist of the Columbus Symphony, and has served in the same position for the Youngstown and Springfield Symphonies and the Dayton Opera. He is a member of the Cipriani Trio and Principal Cellist and Chamber Music Coordinator for the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria. In June 2008 he will retire to Spokane, Washington. He holds the doctorate from Boston University, where he studied with Richard Kapuscinski and Leslie Parnas as a Danforth Fellow. His BA is from the University of Illinois, where he studied with Peter Farrell. He also studied cello in London with Christopher Bunting, and chamber music with Stanley Fletcher, Bela Nagy, Leonard Shure, and John Garvey. He has been teaching cello and chamber music at the college level since 1968 and has students in orchestras, universities, and chamber groups all over the country. His teaching draws not only on training with a series of extraordinary musicians and technicians, but also on his extensive study of the Alexander Technique (see below). He is a musical scholar, specializing in music of the Baroque period. His editions of four sonatas by Giacobbo Cervetto are published by Bärenreiter Verlag, and he is now publishing regularly on SibeliusMusic.com. He has received warm praise for his interpretations of contemporary music as well. A recent performance of Krzysztof Penderecki's Per Slava drew warm praise from the composer and was described by the Columbus Dispatch as a "haunting performance [which] spoke eloquently in the composer's individual voice." Recently he has concertized in Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, and China as well as the US with pianist Rosemary Platt, his collaborator for 30 years. He plays the famed "Rose" Tecchler cello of 1711 and a cello specially made for him by Edward Campbell. William Conable's schedule of performances and workshops is posted below. He is available for concerts, master-classes and workshops upon request. To top
Conductor William Conable is an experienced conductor. He began as Assistant Conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in the late 1960's and also conducted a chamber orchestra which did a series of live concerts for WBUR-FM in Boston in 1967-68. He was conductor of the Youngstown State University Orchestra from 1968-72. Beginning in 1978 he conducted a highly successful series of summer Gilbert and Sullivan productions at OSU. These led to his engagement as conductor for the 1981 and 1982 seasons of the Ohio Light Opera Company, where he was responsible for forming the company's first orchestra. He was later the founding conductor of the Columbus Light Opera. He has also been conductor of the OSU Sinfonietta, a group dedicated to the performance of 20th century music, which he led in a much-praised production of Britten's Turn of the Screw, and of the Knox County Symphony. In the spring of 2003 he conducted the OSU School of Music production of Sondheim's A Little Night Music, about which the Columbus Dispatch said "Musically conducted by William Conable, who makes the show waltz from beginning to end....Conable's orchestra works in harmony with the stage [and] assists the humor and the drama, something that too rarely happens these days in the opera house." Altogether he has conducted over two hundred performances of more that thirty operas and operettas, along with a large repertoire of twentieth-century and standard orchestral works. To top
Alexander Teacher William Conable enjoys worldwide renown as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, a method for improving freedom and ease of movement and physical coordination which is of special interest to musicians and other performing artists. He studied first with Marjorie L. Barstow, the first graduate of F. M. Alexander's first teacher training course, beginning in the summer of 1962. During graduate school he studied with Frank Pierce Jones, who undertook the first scientific research into Alexander's discoveries at Tufts University. In 1965 Professor Conable also studied at Walter Carrington's Alexander teacher training school in London. Beginning in 1971, he continued his study with Marjorie Barstow, which continued steadily for the next fifteen years. He is her senior teaching student. In 1973 with Ms. Barstow's support he initiated the first class in the Alexander Technique offered at an American university. It continues today and draws students not only from the School of Music but from the whole university. In the mid-1970's, he began developing the concept of Body-mapping, which is widely recognized as a major contribution to the theory and pedagogy of the Alexander Technique. He has presented papers and workshops on this development and Alexander teacher training courses in the US and Japan and at conventions of both Alexander teachers and music teachers. Body mapping is at the core of two books, How to Learn the Alexander Technique, which he co-authored with Barbara Conable, and What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body, which was written by Barbara Conable with Benjamin Conable. Both these books are available through normal commercial channels and also directly from the publisher, Andover Press and have been translated into Spanish and Japanese. Barbara Conable has developed an organization, Andover Educators, which is dedicated to training teachers of Body mapping. In recent years, Conable has been studying energy healing with James Kepner, Carol DeSanto, Rosalyn Bruyere, and Shelby Hammitt. He is certified in Nervous System Energy Work, a new discipline being developed by Kepner and DeSanto. William Conable offers instruction in the Alexander Technique both in his Ohio State University classes, at an annual workshop in Columbus, Ohio sponsored by Alexander Workshops, Inc., and in workshops sponsored by organizations all over the world. In recent years he has taught at KAPPA and ATA, two Alexander teacher training programs in Japan, at Tunghai University, Taipei Municipal Teachers College, Taipei National Teachers College, and Taitung Teachers College in Taiwan, at the Federal University of the State of Goias in Goiania, Brazil, and at the National Youth Orchestra Foundation in Santiago, Chile, among others. His schedule is published below and he is available for classes, lessons, and workshops upon request. To top
Schedule (updated 2/2/08) January 30, 2008: OSU Contemporary Music Festival: Osvaldo Golijov Mariel February 24, 2008: OSU Farewell Faculty Recital: Kodaly Sonata, Op. 8, Tajcevic 7 Balkan Dances, Chopin Sonata, with Edward Bak, Piano and Jane Ellsworth, Clarinet March 3, 2008: OSU Faculty Trio with Catherine Carroll, viola: Brahms Piano Quartet in c, Schubert Trio in Eb To top
How to get in touch with William Conable I can be reached by e-mail at conable.1@osu.edu, by mail at The Ohio State University School of Music 1866 N. College Road Columbus, OH 43210, by phone at 614-292-1331, and by fax at 614-292-1102. I welcome the chance to hear from you! To top

William Conable

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