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Conductors 2011-2012
Thomas Blunt (UK)
 Thomas Blunt was Chorus Master at Glyndebourne from ’06 – ’09 and in 2010-11 worked as Assistant Conductor to Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He studied at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, Trinity College Cambridge, and at the Royal College of Music with Neil Thomson. Credits include schools’ concerts with the LPO, a concert with the English Chamber Orchestra; Birtwistle’s Theseus Game (LPO/Foyle Future Firsts); La Cenerentola, Falstaff, and L’elisir d’amore (Glyndebourne on Tour); Cimarosa’s The Italian Girl in London (Bampton Classical Opera and Buxton Festival), The Rape of Lucretia and The Turn of the Screw (Arcola Theatre), Das klagende Lied (LPO banda); Night Pieces, Of Water and Tears, and Masquerade (Jerwood Glyndebourne Chorus Development Scheme, LPO);World Premiere of Dave Maric’s ballet Ghosts for ROH2; The Rape of Lucretia and Così fan tutte (Benjamin Britten International Opera School); Roméo et Juliette (British Youth Opera); concerts with the South Bank Sinfonia and Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra.
Whilst at Glyndebourne he also assisted conductors including Music Director Vladimir Jurowski, Maurizio Benini, Douglas Boyd, Edward Gardner, and Enrique Mazzola. He has taken part in masterclasses with Bernard Haitink, assisted Iván Fischer with the Budapest Festival Orchestra on Mahler 6, and has also worked as assistant conductor for the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano and Opera North. Future plans include assisting at La Monnaie, Brussels, and performances of Bruckner’s Mass in E Minor in Sao Paulo with the LPO and the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra Chorus.
Domingo Hindoyan (Venezuela)
 Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Domingo Hindoyan began his music studies at the age of six as a member of the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra El Sistema. He studied violin, piano and music theory at the Simon Bolivar Conservatory and the Latin-American Violin Academy in Venezuela and continued his studies at the Kayaleh Violin academy in Switzerland from 2000-2004. In 2008, he obtained a masters degree in conducting at the Conservatoire de Genève with Prof. Laurent Gay and received the highest distinction of the jury at graduation. Domingo Hindoyan further enhanced his conducting skills at several master classes with Bernard Haitink (2008), Jesus Lopez Cobos (2009) and David Zinman (2010). From 2008 Domingo Hindoyan is also assistant to Laurent Gay’s conductor classes at the Conservatoire de Genève.
Domingo Hindoyan has won several conducting prizes. In 2010, he was awarded the 2nd prize at the Cadaqués International Conducting competition, and in 2009 he received the 4th prize at the Malko International conducting competition. He was also a semifinalist at the Besancon conducting competition (2009) and a finalist at the Jesus Lopez Cobos opera conductor competition in Madrid (2008).
Domingo Hindoyan has conducted the Basel Symphony Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Geneva Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Madrid Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Pasdeloup of Paris, Cadaqués Symphony Orchestra, and Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra among others. He regularly acts as a guest conductor with the Venezuelan Youth Orchestras El Sistema.
Domingo Hindoyan’s background as a professional violin player brought him to play under the baton of Daniel Barenboim as a regular member of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra since 2006.
In March 2010 Domingo Hindoyan was assistant to Claudio Abbado for concerts with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Lucerne and Caracas. He also works regularly with Daniel Barenboim in Berlin and Milano.
Recently he has conducted the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and his first opera production Pedro Malazarte by Camargo Guarnieri at the Feldkirch Festival devoted to Latin American music. Future engagements include among others Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg and 3 periods with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. He will also conduct Elisir d’Amore by Donizetti at the Bregenz Opera in February and March 2012.
Ward Stare (USA)
 Described as “a compelling figure on the podium” and “one of the hottest young conductors in America” by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ward Stare is currently the Resident Conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony—a position created for him in 2008 by Music Director David Robertson. In April 2009, Stare made his highly successful Carnegie Hall debut with the orchestra, stepping in at the last minute to conduct while Robertson made his debut as chansonnier in H.K. Gruber’s Frankenstein!!.
In August 2007, Ward made his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra at the famed Blossom Music Center. Highlights of recent seasons include appearances with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and at the DITTO festival (Seoul, South Korea). In 2009, Ward made his debut with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, as second conductor in Ives’ Symphony No. 4, as well as his critically acclaimed subscription debut with the Saint Louis Symphony. The winter of the 2010-11 season included Ward’s return to the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin as guest conductor, as well as his European operatic debut at the Norwegian Opera in Oslo, in a new production of Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia.
Upcoming engagements include performances with the Toronto Symphony, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, and Stare’s debut as guest conductor with the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Ward spent the 2007-08 season as a League of American Orchestras Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and conducted concerts on the orchestra’s Toyota Symphonies for Youth Series. In the fall of 2008, Ward served as assistant conductor to Sir Andrew Davis at the Lyric Opera of Chicago for their new production of Alban Berg’s Lulu.
Ward was the recipient of both the Robert J. Harth Conductor Prize (2006) and the Aspen Conducting Prize (2007) at the Aspen Music Festival and returned in the summer of 2008 as Assistant Conductor to the Festival and its Music Director, David Zinman. In addition to his studies with Zinman, he has worked with János Fürst and Jorma Panula as well as working with Michel Merlet in composition and musical analysis.
Ward was trained as a trombonist at the Juilliard School in Manhattan. At the age of 18, he was appointed principal trombonist of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and has performed as an orchestral musician with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, among others. As a soloist, he has concertized in both the U.S. and Europe.
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