George Skipworth

Assistant Professor of Music

Instructor of Orchestra, Piano

department: Music
office: Evans Center
specialty: Orchestra, Piano
email: dovealinferno@yahoo.com

Following early international careers as a concert pianist and singer, Dr. George Skipworth maintained an unceasing itinerary of symphonic and operatic conducting engagements, seminars, festivals and workshops in the United States, Canada, Europe, Russia and Ukraine. These appearances included numerous premieres of his symphonic, choral, instrumental and vocal compositions in addition to symphonic and operatic engagements. Concentrated studies with mentors such as Jon Robertson, Sergiu Commissiona, Kurt Masur, Jose Ariel Rambaldi and Helmuth Rilling led Maestro Skipworth to his first symphonic engagements in Seattle, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Memphis, Nashville, Baltimore, New York and Washington, D.C. A subsequent tour of Russia and Ukraine included performances for the Pushkin and Glinka National Arts Centres of Moscow, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in Kiev, the Kharkiv Philharmonic, the Volgograd Symphony Orchestra, the National Prokofiev Conservatory Orchestra of Donetsk and performances at the Kiev Conservatory.

Dr. Skipworth's formal studies were taken at Whitman College, the Peabody Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School and UCLA. He has authored articles and full-length texts such as "The Neglected Pianist; Guide to the Late Bloomer," "Musical Composition and Mental Disorder" and "Mahler's 'Fifth'; Evolution of Editions, Compositional Process and Conductor Study". For two decades, he served as Director of Phoenix Artist Management, Chiloquin Arts Management and Rosslare Arts International.

Prior to his arrival at Lewis and Clark College in 2002, Skipworth resided in Perugia and Florence, Italy, where he taught at the Umbra Institute and Accademia Dell'Arte, and served as Principal Conductor of the Sinfonia Dell'Arte. In the summer of 2003, he conducted for the Bloch Festival in Newport, Oregon. In July of 2004, he will conduct Mahler's 5th Symphony and other works in the Dublin International Symphonic Festival.