CONDUCTORCISE®

Place yourself in the sneakers of an orchestra conductor and raise your baton to a mighty Sousa march, an impetuous Strauss polka, or an elegant Tchaikovsky waltz as you enjoy a great musical workout. CONDUCTORCISE® is a combination aerobic workout, symphonic performance, and music history lesson that swings to the sounds of the masters. A unique program recognized internationally by health and fitness experts, CONDUCTORCISE® fosters upper body fitness that can help strengthen your heart and open your ears and mind in a natural, invigorating workout.  This low-impact fitness fusion for all ages stimulates the cardio-vascular system, energizes and engages the senses and creates balance, stretching, blood circulation and brain stimulation throughout the workout.  Learn basic conducting techniques, improve cognitive and listening skills, and discover the lives and work of great composers, as you keep your body and mind in tune, relieve stress and secure balance, increase circulation, manage diabetes, and build upper body strength.

The brain child of CLARINETIST/CONDUCTOR DAVID DWORKIN, it’s an exhilarating and unique alternative to “traditional” exercise programs that has successfully traveled the globe. The only program of its kind in the world, Dworkin has brought it to pre-school children, teenagers, healthy seniors, and those in assisted-living facilities, as well as stroke, wheelchair bound, and Alzheimer’s patients and beyond, allowing participants to keep ones “body and mind in tune.”

Maestro David Dworkin has led orchestras across America and abroad, and served as conductor and Artistic Consultant of three PBS Television documentaries in the series Grow Old With Me, including “The Poetry of Aging,” featuring Richard Kiley, Julie Harris, and James Earl Jones.

Much of Mr. Dworkin’s career has been devoted to working with young people. For fifteen years, he was on the faculty of the University of Vermont Summer Music Session, conducting its orchestra and coaching literally hundreds of gifted instrumental students.

His tenure as Music Director of the Vermont Youth Orchestra was highlighted by a much-acclaimed tour of Russia. For over ten years he was conductor of the Pre-College Division Orchestra of the Manhattan School of Music, where he also taught chamber music and clarinet. Mr. Dworkin conducted the Philharmonic on the Hudson for fifteen years, overseeing its transition from a college orchestra to professional status, and leading the orchestra in its enthusiastically-received Carnegie Hall debut. He has also conducted the New Jersey, Vermont, and Manhattan Symphony Orchestras in subscription, family, and young people’s concerts, and led Kurt Weill’s Three Penny Opera on CBS Television.

Mr. Dworkin began his career as a clarinetist, serving as Principal Clarinetist of the American Symphony Orchestra under its legendary founding Music Director, Leopold Stokowski. He later performed for many years with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, working with Herbert Von Karajan, Karl Boehm, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Sir Colin Davis, Erich Leinsdorf, and many other illustrious conductors. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Dworkin has performed throughout the world, including four Carnegie Recital Hall chamber and solo recitals, and was a member of Musicisti Americani, based at the Sulmona, Italy summer festival.

Named one of North America’s most Innovative Active Aging programs by the International Council on Active Aging, Dworkin’s CONDUCTORCISE®, was launched in 2002 as a natural outgrowth of his lifelong passion for conducting, performing and educating, and physical fitness (an avid runner and tennis player for much of his life).  He has led CONDUCTORCISE® in a wide range of venues throughout the globe, including in Central Park for New York City’s “Healthy Halloween” and as a warm-up for the American Heart Association’s annual walk-a-thons, at the Burgess Center for Diabetic Care, American Society on Aging Conference in Washington DC, Canada’s Creative Aging Symposium, various cardiac centers and hospitals, and on tour throughout the US, Holland and SIngapore for pre-school children and teenagers, healthy seniors and those in assisted-living facilities. Atria is also implementing the program into all its Memory Care communities nationwide CONDUCTORCISE® has also proven effective with Alzheimer and Parkinson patients and is gaining wide recognition with healthcare professionals.  The program has been featured on LivingLive! Television with Florence Henderson on Retirement Living TV and on NBC‘s Today show, and on the pages of the New York Times, Symphony Magazine, Town & Country, Caring Today, Australia’s New Idea, the Times Colonist  (Vancouver, BC) Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, AARP,  among many others.

Maestro David Dworkin is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Columbia University Teachers College, is a member American Senior Fitness Association, International Council on Active Aging, has a Certificate of Professional Recognition from IDEA Fitness, and is an advocate on the President’s Physical Fitness Challenge.

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