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Music Director/Conductor Positions
New Jersey Concert Opera, Music Director/Conductor - 2004-Present
The
Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey, Music Director/Conductor
The Little Opera Company of New Jersey, Resident Conductor - 2000-2006
Lakeland Youth Symphony, Conductor, Senior Orchestra - 2000-2007
Garden State Sinfonia, Resident Conductor - 1994-2003
SkylandsYouth Symphony, Conductor - 1998-2003
University/College Teaching Experience
Montclair State University, Adjunct Faculty, 2003-Present
Drew University, Sabbatical Replacement, Fall, 1991
Drew Univesity, Continuing Education, 1995-Present
County College of Morris, Continuing Education, 1991-2Present
Sussex County Community College, 1992-1993
Orchestras/Ensembles Conducted - Europe
Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic (Zlin, Czech Republic) - 2006
Opera Constanta (Constanta, Romania) - 2004
Filarmonica de Stat Botoşani (Botoşani, Romania) - 1999
Philharmonic de Stat Sibiu (Sibiu (Romania) - 2003
Philharmonic de Stat Rm. Valcea (Rm. Valcea, Romania) -2001
Congress Chamber Philharmonic, (St Petersburg, Russia) - 2003
Orchestras/Ensembles Conducted - United States
Society of Musical Arts Orchestra - 2004
New Jersey Symphony - 2005
Orchestra Society of Philadelphia - 2006
Plainfield Symphony - 2006
Masterwork Chorus - 2005
Festivals Directed/Conducte
Summer Festival of Baroque Music, Artistic Director/Conductcor - 2006-2007
VivaldiFest - Music Director/Conductor - 1998-2007
Boston Early Music Festival (Conducted with Baroque Orchestra of Boonton and Skylands Youth Symphony) - 1997. 1999. 2001, 2007
Education
2005 International Workshop for Conductors, Zlin, Czech Republic
2002
Verdi Masterclass, Opera Constanta, with Maestro George Stanchiu, Constanta,
Romania
2001
Conductors Institute, Royal Conservatory of Music, with Maestro Nahun Arman,
Toronto, Canada
1998 Lo gai saber, Performance/research conference on Medieval Music at Coaraze,
Provence, France; with Joel Cohen and Anne Azema
1996-97
Extension Division, Juilliard School of Music, New York, Orchestral Conducting under Vincent La Selva
1989
Master of Arts Degree, Musicology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1972
Bachelor of Arts Degree, Music Education, Montclair State College, New
Jersey
Ensembles Performed With
L'Amoroso - early music ensemble, 1992-1999
Camerata Dolce - early music ensemble, 1994-2001
Entr'acte - trio performing early and folk music, 1994-1999
Eclectic Consort - guest performer at special concerts, 1989-2004
Early Music Players - guest performer at special concerts, 1989-2006
Les Trouveres - Medieval music ensemble, 1994-2005
Collegium Musicum of University of Iowa - 1979-1982
Professional Lecture Engagements
New Jersey Council for the Humanities - 2002-present
New Jersey Symphony - Amadeus festival, 1999
New Jersey State Opera - 2002-2007
Leisure Learning - 1998-present
Quest International - 1999, 2001
Elderhostel - 2000-2002
State Theatre, New Brunswick - 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003
Winchester Gardens - 1998-present
Professional Writing Positions
Classical New Jersey (staff critic) - 1996-2007
Continuo (guest reviewer) - 1989-1996
Early Music Newsletter (guest reviewer) - 1990-1998
Recorder Newspapers (music critic) - 1989-2005
Hackettstown Gazette (music critic) - 1992-1999
Opera News (guest reviewer) - 1989, 1992
Awards
Arts Professional of the Year, Arts Council of the Morris Area, June, 2004
Extraordinary People, Newark Star-Ledger, July 20, 1997
Finalist, Leo M. Traynor Competition for new viol music, 1997
DeMarsh Award, American Recorder Society, 1996
Finalist, Leo M. Traynor Competition for new viol music, 1995
Repertoire
Orchestral
Baroque
Composers of suites, sinfonias, concertos including the familiar composers such
as Bach (Johann Sebastian and his
sons) Handel, Telemann, Rameau, Purcell and Vivaldi plus their contemporaries
including Albinoni, Arne, Boyce, Corelli, Gluck, Hasse, Jommelli, Lully,
Marcello, and Scarlatti.
Classical
composers of overtures, concertos
and symphonies including the works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and their
contemporaries including Gluck, Hummel, Salieri, Stamitz,
Early Romantic
composers, especially Schumann, Mendelssohn,
Schubert and Chopin
Late Romantic
composers, especially Brahms, Tchaikovsky,
Mussorgsky, Borodin, Mahler, Sibelius, Dvorak, Grieg, Rachmaninoff, Smetana and Bruckner
20th Century
composers, especially Barber, Britten,
Holst, Hindemith, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich
Opera
Bernstein, Leonard –
Bizet, Georges -
Carmen
Donizetti, Gaetano -
L’Elisir d'Amore, Lucia da Lammermoor, Don
Pasquale
Gilbert & Sullivan -
Pirates of
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero -
I Pagliacci
Mascagni, Pietro -
Cavalleria rusticana
Menotti, Gian Carlo -
Old Maid and Thief
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus –
Abduction from the Seraglio, Bastien und
Bastienne,
Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute,
The Marriage of Figaro
Puccini, Giacomo –
Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Madama
Butterfly,
Rossini, Giocchino –
Barber of
Strauss, Johann -
Die Fledermaus
Verdi, Giuseppe –
Aida, Un Ballo in maschera, Falstaff,
Macbeth, Otello, La Traviata,
Il Trovatore, Rigoletto
Wagner, Richard –
Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger, Tristan und
Isolde, Das Rheingold,
Vocal Selections
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Coffee Cantata, The Peasant Cantata,
Wachet Auf, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen; Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria, Magnificat;
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Requiem, Exsultate Jubilate; George Frideric Handel: Messiah
To contact Robert Butts, email: Boblute@aol.com
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