Donatella Flick Conducting Competition
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The Donatella Flick Conducting Competition is an international music competition for young conductors
, held biennially in London
.
, who founded the competition in 1990 to help young conductors to establish an international career. In 1996 the competition established a collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra
. The winner of the competition, in addition to the cash prize and the concert engagements, becomes assistant conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra
for one year after the competition.
The jury of the competition is formed of professional conductors and musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra, and has included names such as Maxim Vengerov
, Tamás Vásáry
, Andrew Marriner
, Leif Segerstam
, Yuri Temirkanov
, Yan Pascal Tortelier
, Pinchas Steinberg
, Daniele Gatti
, Sir Neville Marriner and Carlo Rizzi
.
The first round of the competition happens at the Royal Academy of Music
with ensembles of the college, and the final is at the Barbican Hall, where the three finalists conduct the London Symphony Orchestra.
The competition has received several awards and prizes, including the Pro-European Foundation for Culture, the European Project Award for Music, and the Wilhelm Furtwängler Prize for its continuing encouragement of young conductors.
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
, held biennially in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
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History
The Donatella Flick Conducting Competetition is named after the philanthropist Donatella FlickDonatella Flick
Princess Donatella Flick is a philanthropist, former wife of Gert Rudolph Flick of the wealthy German industrialist Flick family....
, who founded the competition in 1990 to help young conductors to establish an international career. In 1996 the competition established a collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.-History:...
. The winner of the competition, in addition to the cash prize and the concert engagements, becomes assistant conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.-History:...
for one year after the competition.
The jury of the competition is formed of professional conductors and musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra, and has included names such as Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Alexandrovich Vengerov is a violinist, violist, and conductor who was born in the Soviet Union.-Youth:Born on 20 August 1974 in Novosibirsk, Russia, to a family with musical tradition....
, Tamás Vásáry
Tamás Vásáry
Tamás Vásáry is a celebrated Hungarian concert pianist.- Biography and career :Vásáry made his debut at the age of 8, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto in D major, K.107 in the city of his birth, where he gave a solo recital the following year. He then began to concertize regularly as a child...
, Andrew Marriner
Andrew Marriner
Andrew Marriner is a British classical clarinettist and the son of the famed conductor Neville Marriner. He was a boy chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. In 1968, he joined the National Youth Orchestra, and eventually pursued studies at Oxford University. He then left Oxford and...
, Leif Segerstam
Leif Segerstam
Leif Segerstam is a Finnish conductor and composer.He studied violin, piano and conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and conducting at the Juilliard School in New York with Jean Morel....
, Yuri Temirkanov
Yuri Temirkanov
Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov is a Russian conductor of Circassian origin.Yuri Temirkanov has been the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic since 1988.-Early life:...
, Yan Pascal Tortelier
Yan Pascal Tortelier
Yan Pascal Tortelier is an internationally renowned French conductor and violinist and is the son of the late cellist Paul Tortelier.-Biography:...
, Pinchas Steinberg
Pinchas Steinberg
Pinchas Steinberg is an Israeli conductor.He was a violin student in the USA and a composition student in Berlin. His conducting debut was in 1974 with the RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. He was a regular guest conductor with the Vienna State Opera from 1986-1993...
, Daniele Gatti
Daniele Gatti
Daniele Gatti is an Italian conductor.Official website: He is currently Music Director of the Orchestre National de France, a role he assumed in September, 2008 , and also Chief Conductor of the Zurich Opera, a position he began in September, 2009; his contract is for three seasons, after which...
, Sir Neville Marriner and Carlo Rizzi
Carlo Rizzi (conductor)
Carlo Rizzi is an Italian conductor.Rizzi studied music at the Milan Conservatory. He later was a conducting student of Vladimir Delman, in Bologna, and with Franco Ferrara in Siena. His opera conducting debut was in 1982, with Donizetti's L'ajo nell'imbarazzo...
.
The first round of the competition happens at the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
with ensembles of the college, and the final is at the Barbican Hall, where the three finalists conduct the London Symphony Orchestra.
The competition has received several awards and prizes, including the Pro-European Foundation for Culture, the European Project Award for Music, and the Wilhelm Furtwängler Prize for its continuing encouragement of young conductors.
Winners
- Andrew Constantine (1991)
- Thimoty Lole (1992)
- Emmanuel Plasson (1994)
- Tommaso Placidi (1996)
- Paul Mann (1998)
- Pablo González Bernardo and François-Xavier RothFrançois-Xavier RothFrançois-Xavier Roth is a French conductor. His father is the organist Daniel Roth. His brother Vincent Roth is a violist. Before turning to conducting, Roth was a flutist...
(2000) - Christope Mangou (2002)
- Fabien Gabel (2004)
- Michal Dworzynski (2006)
- David AfkhamDavid AfkhamDavid Afkham is a German conductor.- Biography :Afkham was born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1983 and started his music education at age 15 at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, where he studied piano with James Avery and in 2002 he won the Jugend Musiziert competition...
(2008) - Clemens Schuldt (2010)