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 James
Bagwell maintains an active schedule
throughout the United States as a
conductor of choral, operatic, and
orchestral literature. He has
received critical praise for his
work as Music Director of Light
Opera Oklahoma, and recently
conducted three new productions and
a concert version of La
Périchole.for the 2005 summer
festival season, including the
company's debut at the OK Mozart
International Music Festival in
Bartlesville, Oklahoma. This August,
he conducts a production of Aaron
Copland's opera The Tender Land as
part of the Bard SummerScape
Festival. In October 2002, he
premiered Cinderella's Bad Magic by
microtonal composer Kyle Gann in
Moscow, as part of the Alternativa
Festival. Since 2001, Mr. Bagwell
has conducted numerous concerts with
the Bard Festival Chorale and the
Bard Chamber Players.
In 2003, Mr. Bagwell was named
Director of Choruses for the Bard
Music Festival, conducting and
preparing choral works during the
summer at the Fisher Center for the
Performing Arts at Bard, and at
Alice Tully Hall in New York. In the
2004-2005 season, he prepared the
Concert Chorale of New York for
three concerts with the American
Symphony Orchestra for performances
at Avery Fisher Hall. Mr. Bagwell
has trained choruses for a number of
major American orchestras, including
the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra,
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra,
Indianapolis Symphony, the Hudson
Valley Philharmonic, and the
Asheville (NC) Symphony. He has
worked with such noted conductors as
James Conlon, Raymond Leppard, Jesús
López-Cobos, Erich Kunzel, Leon
Fleischer, Leon Botstein, Christof
Perick, Imre Pallo, and Robert Shaw.
James Bagwell has been Music
Director of the Cincinnati May
Festival Youth Chorus since 1997,
conducting regularly during the May
Festival, Carolfest, and outreach
concerts throughout the Cincinnati
area. This summer was his eighth
season preparing the May Festival
Summer Chorus for the Riverbend
Music Series. For two seasons, he
worked as Robert Porco's assistant
for the May Festival Chorus.
James Bagwell is Artistic Director
for the New York Repertory Singers
and serves as guest conductor for
the Berkshire Bach Society. From
1998-2001, he was Artistic Director
and Conductor of the Indianapolis
Symphonic Choir and the Indianapolis
Chamber Singers, a professional
ensemble he formed in 1999. In 2000
he joined the faculty of Bard
College in New York, where he is
Associate Professor of Music and
directs the orchestral and choral
program.
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