Isaac Selya
Isaac Selya[edit][edit]
Isaac Selya is an American conductor.
Family[edit][edit]
Isaac is the son of Dr. Roger Mark Selya, a scholar of the economic development of Taiwan and also an amateur cellist and pianist. His mother is Barbara Selya, former copy editor of the HUC press, and an amateur violinist and violist. In high school, she performed the Mendelssohn violin concerto with the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra as part of their youth concerto competition. His family has Sephardic Jewish origins. Selya's family started him on cello lessons when he was 5 years old, and soon thereafter included him in their chamber music sight-reading sessions.”
Education[edit][edit]
Isaac started his professional music career at the age of 18 singing in the chorus of the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem. While living in Jerusalem, he studied cello with Schmuel Magen at the Jerusalem Academy of Music. He holds a BA from Yale College, where he was principal cellist of the Yale Symphony and sang in Yale’s Schola Cantorum under Simon Carrington. At Yale, he studied cello primarily with Ole Akahoshi, with additional instruction from Aldo Parisot. He started his formal conducting studies at Yale, under Toshiyuki Shimada, supplemented by studies at the Pierre Monteux school during the summer. He completed an MM in conducting at Mannes College, where he won a competitive grant from the New School Green Fund to present a concert dealing with environmental advocacy. At Mannes, he studied theory with Carl Schachter and David Loeb, score reading with Robert Cuckson, and conducting with Joseph Colaneri, David Hayes, and Mark Shapiro. He holds a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Mark Gibson. Isaac’s doctoral research focused on Mozart’s use of the baritone voice.
Career as Conductor[edit][edit]
A musician of remarkable versatility, Isaac Selya has extensive experience as a conductor, pianist, vocal coach, cellist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Queen City Opera, where he has led acclaimed performances that combine high-caliber opera with contemporary relevance, including a production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni that featured workshops on sexual assault and consent. He is one of the few conductors in the world who has conducted all of Mozart’s German-language operas. His conducting of Die Zauberflöte with was described as “stylistically perfect” by Seen and Heard International. His performance of Wagner’s Siegfried was the first production of the work in Ohio in over a century. In recognition of his talent and entrepreneurialism, Musical America featured him as a Spotlight Artist. Committed to ensuring that music education is accessible to everyone, Isaac serves as a Teaching Artist and conductor at the MYCincinnati Youth Orchestra, an El Sistema-inspired program in Cincinnati.
As an operatic guest conductor, Isaac’s engagements include Pacific Opera Project, and Opera Memphis. Equally at home in the symphonic repertoire, Isaac has conducted the Xiamen Philharmonic, the Dayton Philharmonic, the National Symphony of Guatemala, the Chelsea Symphony, and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, where he serves as Resident Conductor. He has served as Assistant Conductor for Cincinnati Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival, where he conducted the first-ever reading of the revised version of Philip Glass’s Appomattox, with the composer present.
Isaac maintains a catalogue of parallel fifths and other voice leading violations he finds in the works of common-practice composers. You can see them, as well as commentary on counterpoint and voice-leading at his blog. Isaac has two cats, named Tosca and Aida.
Reviews[edit][edit]
-Rafael de Hacha, seen and heard international:
“Conductor Isaac Selya led his instrumental and vocal forces in a stylistically perfect reading of Mozart’s score, stepping up the pace when needed, giving weight to the solemn moments, and keeping the singers in touch with the pit and with each other.”
-Evans Mirageas, quoted in Musical America:
“For someone so young he had a command of the overall flow of this propulsive sixty minutes of the best of Wagner.”
-Janelle Gelfand:
″What is so remarkable about the efforts of the company’s founding music director Isaac Selya is the quality that he has been able to achieve on a shoestring. His orchestra — complete with five extraordinary horn players, harp and timpani — filled nearly half of the auditorium floor.And what a noble and glorious sound he drew from those musicians! Their playing was impressive, especially given the tricky acoustics in the old auditorium. Selya paced the work expertly and also summoned some lovely atmospheres.″
References[edit][edit]
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2014/08/23/innovator-takes-arts-families-live/14489991/
https://janellesnotes.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/critics-notebook-the-chapter-of-the-gods-concludes/
https://rafaelmusicnotes.com/2018/03/18/__trashed-5/
http://seenandheard-international.com/2013/01/completing-unfinished-mozart-with-weber/
https://www.citybeat.com/arts-culture/classical-music/article/20862538/calling-out-don-giovanni-as-a-rapist
http://seenandheard-international.com/2013/04/solemnity-and-folksiness-collide-in-stylish-flute/
https://www.ccocincinnati.org/aboutcco/
https://illicitfifths.tumblr.com
https://books.google.at/books/about/Development_and_Demographic_Change_in_Ta.html?id=91MHlMFzuHAC&redir_esc=y
Family[edit][edit]
Isaac is the son of Dr. Roger Mark Selya, a scholar of the economic development of Taiwan and also an amateur cellist and pianist. His mother is Barbara Selya, former copy editor of the HUC press, and an amateur violinist and violist. In high school, she performed the Mendelssohn violin concerto with the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra as part of their youth concerto competition. His family has Sephardic Jewish origins. Selya's family started him on cello lessons when he was 5 years old, and soon thereafter included him in their chamber music sight-reading sessions.”
Education[edit][edit]
Isaac started his professional music career at the age of 18 singing in the chorus of the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem. While living in Jerusalem, he studied cello with Schmuel Magen at the Jerusalem Academy of Music. He holds a BA from Yale College, where he was principal cellist of the Yale Symphony and sang in Yale’s Schola Cantorum under Simon Carrington. At Yale, he studied cello primarily with Ole Akahoshi, with additional instruction from Aldo Parisot. He started his formal conducting studies at Yale, under Toshiyuki Shimada, supplemented by studies at the Pierre Monteux school during the summer. He completed an MM in conducting at Mannes College, where he won a competitive grant from the New School Green Fund to present a concert dealing with environmental advocacy. At Mannes, he studied theory with Carl Schachter and David Loeb, score reading with Robert Cuckson, and conducting with Joseph Colaneri, David Hayes, and Mark Shapiro. He holds a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Mark Gibson. Isaac’s doctoral research focused on Mozart’s use of the baritone voice.
Career as conductor[edit][edit]
A musician of remarkable versatility, Isaac Selya has extensive experience as a conductor, pianist, vocal coach, cellist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Queen City Opera, where he has led acclaimed performances that combine high-caliber opera with contemporary relevance, including a production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni that featured workshops on sexual assault and consent. He is one of the few conductors in the world who has conducted all of Mozart’s German-language operas. His conducting of Die Zauberflöte with was described as “stylistically perfect” by Seen and Heard International. His performance of Wagner’s Siegfried was the first production of the work in Ohio in over a century. In recognition of his talent and entrepreneurialism, Musical America featured him as a Spotlight Artist. Committed to ensuring that music education is accessible to everyone, Isaac serves as a Teaching Artist and conductor at the MYCincinnati Youth Orchestra, an El Sistema-inspired program in Cincinnati.
As an operatic guest conductor, Isaac’s engagements include Pacific Opera Project, and Opera Memphis. Equally at home in the symphonic repertoire, Isaac has conducted the Xiamen Philharmonic, the Dayton Philharmonic, the National Symphony of Guatemala, the Chelsea Symphony, and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, where he serves as Resident Conductor. He has served as Assistant Conductor for Cincinnati Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival, where he conducted the first-ever reading of the revised version of Philip Glass’s Appomattox, with the composer present.
Isaac maintains a catalogue of parallel fifths and other voice leading violations he finds in the works of common-practice composers. You can see them, as well as commentary on counterpoint and voice-leading at his blog. Isaac has two cats, named Tosca and Aida.
Rewies[edit][edit]
-Rafael de Hacha, seen and heard international:
“Conductor Isaac Selya led his instrumental and vocal forces in a stylistically perfect reading of Mozart’s score, stepping up the pace when needed, giving weight to the solemn moments, and keeping the singers in touch with the pit and with each other.”
-Evans Mirageas, quoted in Musical America:
“For someone so young he had a command of the overall flow of this propulsive sixty minutes of the best of Wagner.”
-Janelle Gelfand:
″What is so remarkable about the efforts of the company’s founding music director Isaac Selya is the quality that he has been able to achieve on a shoestring. His orchestra — complete with five extraordinary horn players, harp and timpani — filled nearly half of the auditorium floor.And what a noble and glorious sound he drew from those musicians! Their playing was impressive, especially given the tricky acoustics in the old auditorium. Selya paced the work expertly and also summoned some lovely atmospheres.″
References[edit][edit]
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2014/08/23/innovator-takes-arts-families-live/14489991/
https://janellesnotes.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/critics-notebook-the-chapter-of-the-gods-concludes/
https://rafaelmusicnotes.com/2018/03/18/__trashed-5/
http://seenandheard-international.com/2013/01/completing-unfinished-mozart-with-weber/
https://www.citybeat.com/arts-culture/classical-music/article/20862538/calling-out-don-giovanni-as-a-rapist
http://seenandheard-international.com/2013/04/solemnity-and-folksiness-collide-in-stylish-flute/
https://www.ccocincinnati.org/aboutcco/
https://illicitfifths.tumblr.com
https://books.google.at/books/about/Development_and_Demographic_Change_in_Ta.html?id=91MHlMFzuHAC&redir_esc=y
Isaac Selya[edit]
Isaac Selya[edit]
Isaac Selya is an American conductor.
Family[edit] Isaac is the son of Dr. Roger Mark Selya, a scholar of the economic development of Taiwan and also an amateur cellist and pianist. His mother is Barbara Selya, former copy editor of the HUC press, and an amateur violinist and violist. In high school, she performed the Mendelssohn violin concerto with the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra as part of their youth concerto competition. His family has Sephardic Jewish origins. Selya's family started him on cello lessons when he was 5 years old, and soon thereafter included him in their chamber music sight-reading sessions.”
Education[edit] Isaac started his professional music career at the age of 18 singing in the chorus of the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem. While living in Jerusalem, he studied cello with Schmuel Magen at the Jerusalem Academy of Music. He holds a BA from Yale College, where he was principal cellist of the Yale Symphony and sang in Yale’s Schola Cantorum under Simon Carrington. At Yale, he studied cello primarily with Ole Akahoshi, with additional instruction from Aldo Parisot. He started his formal conducting studies at Yale, under Toshiyuki Shimada, supplemented by studies at the Pierre Monteux school during the summer. He completed an MM in conducting at Mannes College, where he won a competitive grant from the New School Green Fund to present a concert dealing with environmental advocacy. At Mannes, he studied theory with Carl Schachter and David Loeb, score reading with Robert Cuckson, and conducting with Joseph Colaneri, David Hayes, and Mark Shapiro. He holds a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Mark Gibson. Isaac’s doctoral research focused on Mozart’s use of the baritone voice.
Career as Conductor[edit] A musician of remarkable versatility, Isaac Selya has extensive experience as a conductor, pianist, vocal coach, cellist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Queen City Opera, where he has led acclaimed performances that combine high-caliber opera with contemporary relevance, including a production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni that featured workshops on sexual assault and consent. He is one of the few conductors in the world who has conducted all of Mozart’s German-language operas. His conducting of Die Zauberflöte with was described as “stylistically perfect” by Seen and Heard International. His performance of Wagner’s Siegfried was the first production of the work in Ohio in over a century. In recognition of his talent and entrepreneurialism, Musical America featured him as a Spotlight Artist. Committed to ensuring that music education is accessible to everyone, Isaac serves as a Teaching Artist and conductor at the MYCincinnati Youth Orchestra, an El Sistema-inspired program in Cincinnati.
As an operatic guest conductor, Isaac’s engagements include Pacific Opera Project, and Opera Memphis. Equally at home in the symphonic repertoire, Isaac has conducted the Xiamen Philharmonic, the Dayton Philharmonic, the National Symphony of Guatemala, the Chelsea Symphony, and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, where he serves as Resident Conductor. He has served as Assistant Conductor for Cincinnati Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival, where he conducted the first-ever reading of the revised version of Philip Glass’s Appomattox, with the composer present.
Isaac maintains a catalogue of parallel fifths and other voice leading violations he finds in the works of common-practice composers. You can see them, as well as commentary on counterpoint and voice-leading at his blog. Isaac has two cats, named Tosca and Aida.
Reviews[edit] -Rafael de Hacha, seen and heard international:
“Conductor Isaac Selya led his instrumental and vocal forces in a stylistically perfect reading of Mozart’s score, stepping up the pace when needed, giving weight to the solemn moments, and keeping the singers in touch with the pit and with each other.”
-Evans Mirageas, quoted in Musical America:
“For someone so young he had a command of the overall flow of this propulsive sixty minutes of the best of Wagner.”
-Janelle Gelfand:
″What is so remarkable about the efforts of the company’s founding music director Isaac Selya is the quality that he has been able to achieve on a shoestring. His orchestra — complete with five extraordinary horn players, harp and timpani — filled nearly half of the auditorium floor.And what a noble and glorious sound he drew from those musicians! Their playing was impressive, especially given the tricky acoustics in the old auditorium. Selya paced the work expertly and also summoned some lovely atmospheres.″
References[edit] https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2014/08/23/innovator-takes-arts-families-live/14489991/
https://janellesnotes.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/critics-notebook-the-chapter-of-the-gods-concludes/
https://rafaelmusicnotes.com/2018/03/18/__trashed-5/
http://seenandheard-international.com/2013/01/completing-unfinished-mozart-with-weber/
http://seenandheard-international.com/2013/04/solemnity-and-folksiness-collide-in-stylish-flute/
https://www.ccocincinnati.org/aboutcco/
https://illicitfifths.tumblr.com
Family[edit] Isaac is the son of Dr. Roger Mark Selya, a scholar of the economic development of Taiwan and also an amateur cellist and pianist. His mother is Barbara Selya, former copy editor of the HUC press, and an amateur violinist and violist. In high school, she performed the Mendelssohn violin concerto with the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra as part of their youth concerto competition. His family has Sephardic Jewish origins. Selya's family started him on cello lessons when he was 5 years old, and soon thereafter included him in their chamber music sight-reading sessions.”
Education[edit] Isaac started his professional music career at the age of 18 singing in the chorus of the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem. While living in Jerusalem, he studied cello with Schmuel Magen at the Jerusalem Academy of Music. He holds a BA from Yale College, where he was principal cellist of the Yale Symphony and sang in Yale’s Schola Cantorum under Simon Carrington. At Yale, he studied cello primarily with Ole Akahoshi, with additional instruction from Aldo Parisot. He started his formal conducting studies at Yale, under Toshiyuki Shimada, supplemented by studies at the Pierre Monteux school during the summer. He completed an MM in conducting at Mannes College, where he won a competitive grant from the New School Green Fund to present a concert dealing with environmental advocacy. At Mannes, he studied theory with Carl Schachter and David Loeb, score reading with Robert Cuckson, and conducting with Joseph Colaneri, David Hayes, and Mark Shapiro. He holds a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Mark Gibson. Isaac’s doctoral research focused on Mozart’s use of the baritone voice.
Career as conductor[edit] A musician of remarkable versatility, Isaac Selya has extensive experience as a conductor, pianist, vocal coach, cellist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Queen City Opera, where he has led acclaimed performances that combine high-caliber opera with contemporary relevance, including a production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni that featured workshops on sexual assault and consent. He is one of the few conductors in the world who has conducted all of Mozart’s German-language operas. His conducting of Die Zauberflöte with was described as “stylistically perfect” by Seen and Heard International. His performance of Wagner’s Siegfried was the first production of the work in Ohio in over a century. In recognition of his talent and entrepreneurialism, Musical America featured him as a Spotlight Artist. Committed to ensuring that music education is accessible to everyone, Isaac serves as a Teaching Artist and conductor at the MYCincinnati Youth Orchestra, an El Sistema-inspired program in Cincinnati.
As an operatic guest conductor, Isaac’s engagements include Pacific Opera Project, and Opera Memphis. Equally at home in the symphonic repertoire, Isaac has conducted the Xiamen Philharmonic, the Dayton Philharmonic, the National Symphony of Guatemala, the Chelsea Symphony, and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, where he serves as Resident Conductor. He has served as Assistant Conductor for Cincinnati Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival, where he conducted the first-ever reading of the revised version of Philip Glass’s Appomattox, with the composer present.
Isaac maintains a catalogue of parallel fifths and other voice leading violations he finds in the works of common-practice composers. You can see them, as well as commentary on counterpoint and voice-leading at his blog. Isaac has two cats, named Tosca and Aida.
Rewies[edit] -Rafael de Hacha, seen and heard international:
“Conductor Isaac Selya led his instrumental and vocal forces in a stylistically perfect reading of Mozart’s score, stepping up the pace when needed, giving weight to the solemn moments, and keeping the singers in touch with the pit and with each other.”
-Evans Mirageas, quoted in Musical America:
“For someone so young he had a command of the overall flow of this propulsive sixty minutes of the best of Wagner.”
-Janelle Gelfand:
″What is so remarkable about the efforts of the company’s founding music director Isaac Selya is the quality that he has been able to achieve on a shoestring. His orchestra — complete with five extraordinary horn players, harp and timpani — filled nearly half of the auditorium floor.And what a noble and glorious sound he drew from those musicians! Their playing was impressive, especially given the tricky acoustics in the old auditorium. Selya paced the work expertly and also summoned some lovely atmospheres.″
References[edit] https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2014/08/23/innovator-takes-arts-families-live/14489991/
https://janellesnotes.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/critics-notebook-the-chapter-of-the-gods-concludes/
https://rafaelmusicnotes.com/2018/03/18/__trashed-5/
http://seenandheard-international.com/2013/01/completing-unfinished-mozart-with-weber/
http://seenandheard-international.com/2013/04/solemnity-and-folksiness-collide-in-stylish-flute/
https://www.ccocincinnati.org/aboutcco/
https://illicitfifths.tumblr.com
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