TWENTY FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE seventeenth DONATELLA FLICK LSO CONDUCTING COMPETITION – LSO St Luke’s, London, Tuesday 21 – Thursday 23 March 2023
Twenty opponents from throughout Europe have been introduced for the seventeenth Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition. Internationally acknowledged as one of many world’s main conducting competitions, the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition will see twenty opponents compete for the £15,000 prize awarded by Donatella Flick and alternative to turn out to be Assistant Conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra for as much as one yr.
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The 20 finalists introduced come from eleven international locations: Austria, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland and the UK. (Biographies for every of the opponents will be discovered on the Competition’s web site.) As at all times, opponents will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra and are drawn from the very best conductors aged 30 or beneath who’re residents of the UK; international locations having full membership of the European Union; and Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein or Switzerland.
The winner is awarded £15,000 by Donatella Flick and could have the chance to turn out to be Assistant Conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra for as much as one yr. During this time with the LSO the profitable conductor will work with the LSO’s Principal and visitor conductors on the preparation of concert events, usually on the evaluation of recent scores; participate within the LSO’s schooling and outreach programme, LSO Discovery; accompany the orchestra on tour and, ought to the chance come up, conduct the LSO in live performance.
One of the opponents can even turn out to be a Welsh National Opera Associate Conductor for a season, the place they are going to have the chance to work with WNO’s Music Director, Tomáš Hanus, in addition to on a spread of productions, concert events and engagement exercise in Cardiff and at a number of the Company’s touring venues in Wales and England.
Donatella Flick, Founder of the Competition mentioned: ‘I’m delighted to welcome our 20 conductors to London from throughout Europe to compete within the newest version of the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition. They signify the very best of an unbelievable era who are usually not solely supremely proficient however have additionally proven nice resilience and creativity in coping with the a number of challenges posed by the worldwide pandemic on growing younger careers. I salute all of them and sit up for welcoming them to the Competition in March, in addition to audiences worldwide who can watch the ultimate spherical through Medici TV.’
After the primary day of competitors the Competition’s jury selects ten conductors to undergo to the Second Round, and from these three finalists can be chosen for the Final Round.
The 2023 jury consists of: David Alberman (Jury Chair), LSO Principal Second Violin and LSO Chair; Sally Beamish, Composer; Martyn Brabbins, Conductor; Sian Edwards, Conductor; Juliana Koch, LSO Principal Oboe; and Sir Antonio Pappano, LSO’s Chief Conductor Designate.
The ultimate spherical can be streamed on medici.television on Thursday 23 March from 7pm, the place viewers from across the globe will have the ability to catch the joy of the Competition and see the winner introduced reside. The livestream can be hosted by Gramophone Editor-in-Chief James Jolly.