The IU Jacobs School of Music-affiliated Artists of the Month, announced in WFIU’s “Directions in Sound” program guide, are also featured in “Fanfare,” with a convenient link so you may listen online. This month, Thomas Baldner is in the spotlight.
WFIU's Artist of the Month for May is conductor Thomas Baldner.
Thomas Baldner studied music at the Berlin Academy of Music. His professional activities as a conductor began while still studying in Berlin and Freiburg. With a series of scholarships, he obtained a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music from the Indiana University School of Music in the early 1950s.
Baldner continued his studies with Pierre Monteux and, in 1954, founded the Greenwich Philharmonia Orchestra. He later served as chief conductor of the Rheinisches Kammerorchester of Cologne and guest conductor for the Berlin, Munich, and London Philharmonics and the London Symphony Orchestra. Baldner joined the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music in 1976 and served as chair of the Department of Instrumental Conducting from his appointment through the year 2000. Baldner will retire from the Jacobs School this month.
WFIU highlights Thomas Baldner throughout May and in this month's Broadcasts from the Jacobs School of Music:
WAGNER-PARSIFAL: Good Friday Spell; Roy Samuelsen, bar.; Thomas Baldner/IU Sym.
Airs: 5/5 at 7 p.m., 5/6 at 10 a.m. 5/9 at 3 p.m.
STRAUSS, R.-Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op. 28; Thomas Baldner/IU Phil. Orch.
Airs: 5/12 at 7 p.m., 5/13 at 10 a.m., 5/16 at 3 p.m.
BEETHOVEN-THE CREATURES OF PROMETHEUS, OP. 43: Overture; Thomas Baldner/IU Concert Orch.
Airs: 5/19at 7 p.m., 5/20 at 10 a.m., 5/23 at 3 p.m.
BACH-Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D, BWV 1069; Thomas Baldner/IU Ch. Orch.
Airs: 5/26 at 7 p.m., 5/27 at 10 a.m., 5/30 at 3 p.m.
All performances can be heard through wfiu.indiana.edu.
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