Winner of the 2015 American Prize in Orchestral Performance and Runner-up for The American Prize in Conducting, Australian conductor Carolyn Watson is Director of Orchestral Studies at Texas State University. A Fellow of the American Academy of Cond
...MoreWinner of the 2015 American Prize in Orchestral Performance and Runner-up for The American Prize in Conducting, Australian conductor Carolyn Watson is Director of Orchestral Studies at Texas State University. A Fellow of the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival and School where she studied with David Zinman, Carolyn was a major prizewinner at the 2012 Emmerich Kálmán International Operetta Conducting Competition in Budapest and in 2016, was one of ten women selected for the elite Dallas Opera Institute for Women Conductors. From 2013-15 Carolyn held the position of Conductor of the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra, having also conducted the World Youth Symphony Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Carolyn has been a guest lecturer at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University and Sydney Conservatorium of Music where she enjoys an ongoing association. Her conducting research forms part of curricula at Indiana University and the Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University. She has presented internationally at Oxford University’s Conducting Studies Conference and national conferences of The Conductor’s Guild and College Orchestra Directors Association. Dr. Watson holds a PhD in Performance (Conducting) from the University of Sydney where the subject of her doctoral thesis was Gesture as Communication: The Art of Carlos Kleiber. Carolyn is also in demand as a guest lecturer, adjudicator, presenter and clinician throughout the United States and abroad. www.carolyn-watson.com
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