Spring 2027

Graduate Instrumental Conducting Laboratory

Graduate Instrumental Conducting Laboratory develops conducting skills by leading an ad hoc ensemble of 9-20 musicians in rehearsal and performance on orchestral and wind ensemble repertoire.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Scott Teeple4.0/5Oriol Sans Arrufat

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate effective and refined gestural vocabulary on the podium

  • Demonstrate knowledge of broad repertoire in instrumental ensemble repertoire

  • Implement score study skills as they apply to conducting a live instrumental ensemble

  • Model rehearsal techniques before live musicians

  • Employ self-reflection in identifying the quality of one's own work

  • Demonstrate skills in a performance setting

  • Assess other colleagues’ conducting, creating a safe community for learning and development

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Concurrent enrollment inMUS PERF 532, 732, 990, or 999

MUSIC 632

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Professors

Spring 2027

Scott Teeple

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Raw average: 4.73/5 from 11 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

SCOTT TEEPLE is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LAB 001Classroom Instruction0 / 100

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Conducting skills
  • Orchestral and wind ensemble repertoire
  • Score study
  • Rehearsal techniques

Skills

  • Effective and refined gestural vocabulary on the podium
  • Knowledge of broad repertoire in instrumental ensemble repertoire
  • Score study skills applied to conducting a live instrumental ensemble
  • Rehearsal techniques modeled before live musicians
  • Self-reflection in identifying the quality of one's own work
  • Assessment of colleagues' conducting to create a safe community for learning

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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MUSIC 632 · Spring 2027

Graduate Instrumental Conducting Laboratory

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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