Charles is conducting the orchestra for the Rocky Ridge Music Center, in Estes Park, Colorado, from June 12-28 2009.

Rocky Ridge Music  Center,  located  in the heart of the Colorado Rockies, offers summer music camps for students of various ages and levels including adult seminars.

Under the guidance of world-class faculty and guest artists, students will improve and broaden their musical skills in areas of strings, woodwinds, brass, piano and voice through solo, chamber, orchestral, and theory/composition studies. Students will have the opportunities to create and perform new music, participate in master classes, attend Music in the Mountains faculty concert series, listen to broadcasts of their and faculty recitals on 104.7 KREV Rocky Ridge Music Hour and on Colorado Public Radio at 90.1 KVOD Colorado Spotlight .

The review from the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra’s December 12th concert is in.   The verdict?  Charles Latshaw is quickly improving and developing the sound the the BSO.    The full review is below:

http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2008/12/14/scene.nw-276788.sto
New conductor inspiring orchestra to play better
By Peter Jacobi
H-T Reviewer
12/14/2008
Charles Latshaw, the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra’s enthusiastic and talented young music director, has his ensemble playing with renewed energy and consistently improving tonal quality.

That was clearly in evidence Saturday afternoon when the orchestra performed a compact concert of works by Gustav Mahler and Edward Elgar in the sanctuary of Bloomington’s Unitarian Universalist Church. It was a cozy environment that Latshaw had chosen, which may have contributed to how lush and limber the orchestra sounded. Read the rest of this entry »

Charles was interviewed by WFIU announcer Annie Corrigan for their ArtWorks series on regional orchestras.

Click here to listen to the full interview:

Click the “Schedule” link above to see Charles’ 2008-2009 Concert Season

The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra’s September 6 children’s concert was a great success.   Many thanks go out to the management and merchants at College Mall for their support.  An excerpt from the Herald Times review:

Music review: Bloomington Symphony Orchestra
Surprising eastside venue proves to be a success for Western-themed concert

By Peter Jacobi H-T Reviewer
September 8, 2008

It wasn’t an expected place for the start of Bloomington’s new music season, but it proved a happy choice, even inspired. And so was the content for the intended audience.

Decked in jeans, denim shirts, bandanas, cowboy hats, and some even in boots, members of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra gathered in the center court of College Mall Saturday afternoon, with the Target circles of red in the background, to perform a “Western Roundup” family concert.

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The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra’s April 27th “Underground Railroad” featured two world premiere performances, and a fantastic performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.

Two Davids, BSO, Chamber Singers face goliaths
by Peter Jacobi H-T columnist
April 29, 2008

Sunday afternoon’s Bloomington Symphony Orchestra concert featured a parade of winners, not the least of them being the orchestra itself, playing resoundingly well under its energetic and perceptive young maestro, Charles Latshaw.
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On Friday, March 14, 2008, Charles conducts the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s Annual Side-By-Side Concert.

Talented high school students from across the state have been selected to perform alongside the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and two winners of the Concerto Competition will solo with the ISO.

Program: 7:30 PM, Hilbert Circle Theatre, Indianapolis
Bernstein: Overture to Candide
Walton: Viola Concerto
Koussevitsky: Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Tickets are FREE — call the ISO Box Office M-F 9-5 at 1.800.366.8457

Photos of the Bloomington Symphony’s annual “A (hot) Night in Old Vienna” event are now available in the Photographs section of the website.

February 9th, 6-11 PM
The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra presents their annual Night in Old Vienna event. Gourmet dinner and dancing from 6 to 11 PM. Charles and the BSO play Viennese waltzes, swing, Latin rhumbas, salsas, tangos, and more! Tickets are still available.

February 21, 8:00 PM
Charles teams up with Native American Flutist, James Pellerite and former Piccolo with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Walfrid Kujala to present a concert at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Proceeds benefit the James Pellerite Flute Scholarship Fund.

The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra’s December concert, rescheduled to January 12, was a great success!

Peter Jacobi, for the Herald Times writes:

…the orchestra’s new and energetic music director, Charles Latshaw, had come up with a lovely idea for a program: to feature the BSO’s players, for the most part, in small rather than full-sized configurations, that way to present “An Evening of Chamber Music,” that way to give the musicians unusual chances to shine, which they did….Latshaw and company, I’m happy to say, prevailed.