TAMARA SHEA DWORETZ

About

Professional conductor, devoted music educator and enthusiastic audience engager, Tamara's experiences range from teaching school-aged musicians to leading esteemed orchestras in the U.S. and abroad. In 2019, Tamara served as assistant conductor to Bramwell Tovey, Principal Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, at the London Proms. The same year, Tamara was selected as one of 6 conductors to participate in a two-week residency in the Dallas Opera's prestigious Hart Institute for Women Conductors, which culminated in a final concert of overtures and arias with the Dallas Opera Orchestra and world-class singers. Tamara won 2nd prize in the Boston Pops' 2018 Bernstein-inspired conducting competition. She was a Conducting Fellow for the 2019 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music for which she received the Bruno Walter Conducting Fellowship and studied with Cristian Macelaru, Chief Conductor of the WDR Symphonie-orchestre. Previously, Tamara served for 2 years as Assistant Conductor for the Austin Symphony Orchestra. In various capacities, Tamara has conducted the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, the Dallas Opera Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra (Sofia, Bulgaria), Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, DeKalb Symphony Orchestra, and Butler Opera Center.

As a music educator, Tamara has conducted a variety of collegiate, youth and school ensembles, all of which she greatly enjoys. In February and March 2020, Tamara guest conducted the Longy Conservatory Orchestra at Bard College, including works by Debussy, Ives, Montgomery, Mazzoli, and Holst. She was co-music director/conductor of the University of Texas University Orchestra, and led the Indiana University Brass Choir, University of Texas Symphony Orchestra, Boston University Symphony Orchestra and Boston University All-Campus Orchestra in concerts, as well as worked extensively with the Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. Furthermore, Tamara served as Interim Conductor for the Austin Youth Orchestra's most advanced full-orchestra, Director of Orchestras at Lakeside High School in Atlanta, and Conductor for the University of Texas String Project's Chamber Orchestra.

Tamara received a Bachelor of Music Education at Indiana University, a Masters of Music Education from the University of Georgia, and a Masters in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Texas at Austin. She will complete coursework for her Doctorate in Musical Arts in Conducting from Boston University in December 2020.

News

Tamara invited to be Guest Conductor of the Longy Conservatory Orchestra at Bard College in a program of Holst, Debussy, Mazzoli, Montgomery and Ives (March 2020)

The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music selects Tamara as a 2019 Conducting Fellow (June 2019)

Participants Announced for the 2019 Hart Institute for Female Conductors at The Dallas Opera (March 2019)

Tamara wins 2nd prize in the Boston Pops' Bernstein-inspired Conducting Competition (June 2018)

"Tamara Dworetz...gave a sensitive reading of “Frondi tenere...Ombra mai fu” from Handel’s Xerxes."
-Gregory Sullivan Isaacs/TheaterJones

"Tamara Dworetz crisply led a flamboyant aria [Se Bramate d'amar chi vi sdegna] from Handel’s Serse."
-Scott Cantrell/Dallas Morning News

RECENT ENGAGEMENTS

Longy Conservatory Orchestra at Bard College
DEBUSSY | Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
IVES | The Unanswered Question
MONTGOMERY | Stardust
MAZZOLI | Sinfonia ("From Orbiting Spheres")
HOLST | The Planets
I. Mars
III. Mercury
IV. Jupiter
V. Saturn
VII. Neptune
March 12, 2020 (POSTPONED)
Pickman Hall @ The Longy School of Music

Orchestra Appassionata
MUSSORGSKY | Prelude to Khovanshchina
RAVEL | Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
piano soloist, Pierre-Nicholas Colombat
GERSHWIN | An American in Paris
March 19, 2020 (POSTPONED)
Boston University College of Fine Arts Concert Hall

Boston University Symphony Orchestra
A. GLAZUNOV | Overture Solennelle
February 26, 2020
Boston University Tsai Performance Hall

Boston University All-Campus Orchestra
VERDI | La Forza del Destino, Overture
December 9, 2019 @ 8:00pm
Tsai Performance Hall

Orchestra Appassionata
BRAHMS | Tragic Overture
LISZT | Piano Concerto no. 2
piano soloist, Kyra Xuerong Zhao
December 8, 2019 @ 8:00pm
Tsai Performance Hall

Performance Diploma Cello Recital
SCHUMANN | Cello Concerto
BRUCH | Kol Nidre
Naomi Steckman, cello soloist
Boston University Concert Hall
November 16, 2019 @ 4:00pm

The Dallas Opera 2019 HIWC Concert
PUCCINI | Manon Lescaut, Intermezzo to Act III
BIZET | Les pêcheurs de perles, Au fond du temple saint
HANDEL | Xerxes, Ombra mai fu
HANDEL | Xerxes, Se Bramate d'amar chi vi sdegna
Angel Vargas, tenor
Chuma Sijeqa, bass
Kangmin Justin Kim, Countertenor
The Dallas Opera Orchestra
The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House
November 9, 2019 @ 7:30pm CST
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BU All-Campus Orchestra Fall Concert
SMETANA | "Three Dances" from The Bartered Bride
Boston University Concert Hall
October 18, 2019 @ 8:00pm

Boston University Symphony Orchestra
BRITTEN | Four Sea Interludes from "Peter Grimes"
Tsai Performance Hall
October 2, 2019 @ 8:00pm

BBC Proms
Click HERE for Program
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Assistant Conductor to Bramwell Tovey
August 31, 2019

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
BARTOK | Concerto for Orchestra
BEETHOVEN | Symphony no. 3 "Eroica"
MOZART | Symphony no. 39
STRAVINSKY | Dumbarton Oaks
July 27-31, 2019