Conducting Techniques for Composers with Eímear Noone

The workshop touches on conducting techniques of benefit to media composers. These include exercises for strength, stamina and precision; beat patterns, including sub-divided patterns; meter changes; basic techniques to get you through a recording session such as fermatas, cut-offs, cues, dynamics and articulation; how to procure a clean execution and good ensemble by breathing with the orchestra; working with click-track and a discussion on free-timing; recording procedure and protocol.

Eímear Noone is an Irish composer/conductor resident in Malibu, California. As a conductor she splits her time between working on the scoring stage and the concert hall. Eímear has led some of the world’s great orchestras including The Royal Philharmonic, The National Symphony Orchestra, The Sydney Symphony, The Pittsburgh Symphony, The Dallas Symphony, The Houston Symphony, and The Orchestra of St. Lukes, to name but a few. Likewise, she has conducted at iconic concert halls including The Sydney Opera House, Wolftrap, The Mann Center, Madison Square Garden Theater, The Greek Theater, Nokia Live, Davies Symphony Hall, Benaroya Hall and many more.

As a studio conductor, she has recorded at Capitol Records, Twentieth Century Fox, The Skywalker Ranch and Abbey Road, and has worked on the scores to many iconic video game titles such as Metal Gear Solid, World of Warcraft, Starcraft II, Wings of Liberty, Starcraft II, Heart of the Swarm, and Diablo III. In 2011 she appeared onstage at E3 with Nintendo’s legendary director, Shigeru Miyamoto and recorded a symphonic album in celebration of the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, including some of the first ever 3D footage of a live symphony orchestra (for download to the 3DS). She is about to embark on the European tour as conductor for “The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses,” and looks forward to conducting in April 2013 with Gladys Knight and the Pacific Symphony at Segerstrom Hall.