Virginia Allen

Conductors' Forum, Music History Seminars

Virginia Allen studied horn and conducting and earned a Bachelor of Music Education and a Master of Music in performance from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and a Diploma in conducting from the University of Calgary. She is completing a Doctor of Education degree in the College Teaching of Music at Teachers College, Columbia University.

As a former member of the conducting faculty at Juilliard, she co-founded, conducted, and arranged music for the Juilliard Trombone Choir. At Juilliard Ms. Allen also served as the founding artistic director of the Conducting Workshop for Music Educators and as executive director of the Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies. She is former artistic director of the Sun Valley Summer Music Workshops in Idaho, where she founded and conducted the Sun Valley Youth Orchestra.

She has performed around the United States and Europe as conductor of the U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus in Washington, D.C.; U.S. Military Academy Band at West Point; and West Point Glee Club.

Her published arrangements have been premiered, performed, and recorded by members of the Philadelphia and Washington Opera orchestras; Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, and Brazilian symphony orchestras; Buffalo Philharmonic; and Juilliard Trombone Choir. She is a former board member of the Conductors Guild.

Ms. Allen joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2005.