Conference Highlights

 

We can’t wait to welcome you to Salt Lake City! This year, we’re introducing a new series of session formats to match the many ways our delegates prefer to learn and share.

Our General Sessions feature prestigious guest speakers, inspiring music, and key topics for the whole field.

Insight Sessions offer presentations and panels on great ideas and effective practices from inside and beyond the orchestra world.

Critical Conversations are places where you and your peers can take part in open discussions on key topics, facilitated by experts across classical music.

Workshops are hands-on, actionable trainings where you can learn and practice skills to take back to your organization.

Business Perspectives feature timely presentations from our valued community of consultants and service organizations, sharing deep industry expertise.

Constituency Meetings are closed-door discussions with fellow colleagues, open to all in constituency groups.

View the schedule overview and create your own adventure!


General Sessions

Wednesday, June 11

Tech Fair half-day event with showcases of products and services and sharing of technology best practices.

Opening Session, Gold Baton Award, and Keynote with performances by the Utah Youth Philharmonic and Utah Youth Symphony, a keynote by American soprano Renée Fleming, and the presentation of the Gold Baton Award, the League’s highest honor, to Marin Alsop.

Renée Fleming. Photo courtesy of the speaker.

Marin Alsop. Photo Credit: Andrej Grilc.

Friday, June 13

Closing Luncheon: Home, Freedom, and Belonging with Kinan Azmeh with a performance by and conversation with Kinan Azmeh, Syrian clarinet player and composer of contemporary classical music.

 
 


Open Sessions

Thursday, June 12, 9:00am

Thursday, June 12, 11:00am

Thursday, June 12, 1:45pm

Friday, June 13, 8:30am


The Utah Symphony performing Mahler's Symphony No. 3. Photo courtesy of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera.


 
 

Banner: Inside the Maurice Abravanel Hall lobby. Courtesy of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera.