György Solti International Conducting Competition

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03. Oct. - 16. Dec 2017

Maestro Solti International Conducting Competition

Budapest, Pécs

Competitors

Andris Rasmanis

Andris Rasmanis, born in Riga, is a Latvian conductor based in Vienna. He completed his Orchestra Conducting Master Degree with distinction from the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, after conducting the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein.

Anton Shaburov

Born in 1983 in Yekaterinburg, Russia Anton Shaburov graduated from the Ural Mussorgsky (2008, diploma with honors) and the Moscow Tchaikovsky (2011, diploma with honors) conservatories studying conducting with the legendary professor Gennady Rozhdestvensky. In 2016 Anton Shaburov completed a postgraduate course in Moscow conservatory with professor Rozhdestvensky.

Anton Torbeev

Anton Torbeev is currently a Principal conductor of Mariinsky Theater, Primorsky Stage (Vladivostok, Russia). He completed his Masters Degree for Symphonic and Operatic Conducting at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatoire, St.-Petersburg, Russia.

Aoi Mizuno

Japanese Conductor, Aoi Mizuno was born in 1994 in Tokyo. At the age 12, he started to play the Violin and developed an interest in conducting.

Azis Sadikovic

The Austrian conductor is the winner of the 1st prize and the Caixa-General special prize at the Con- curso Jovens Maestros 2013 and the winner of the 3rd prize and the bronze baton at the renowned Fitelberg International Conducting Competition 2012.

Balassa Krisztián

Krisztián Balassa graduated from the class of composition of Szent István Király Conservatory of Music before he got his degree in choral and orchestral conducting at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, as a student of Tamás Gál and András Ligeti, respectively. Already at a young age, he was interested in drama and music theatre; he performed as an actor and singer at the National Theatre and at the Hungarian State Opera.

Bánfi Balázs

The debut of Balázs Bánfi in Canada was a sweeping success in 2017, when he conducted the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Strauss Symphony of Canada within the frame of the „Salute to Vienna” program series. He conducted the Wiener KammerOrchester first when he was a graduate student of the Vienna Music Academy; the concert was held at the concert studio of the Austrian Radio (ORF Radiokulturhaus). After his successful debut he was invited to perform at the Konzerthaus in Vienna where he conducted works by Mozart, Debussy and Vasks as well. On the same occasion, he conducted the world premier of the Three pieces for string orchestra by Diego Collatti. Bánfi stepped on stage several times in the Budapest Palace of Arts and at the Music Academy as well.

Báthori Lóránt

Lóránt Báthori graduated from the Bartók Béla Music Institute of the University of Miskolc as percussionist and chamber musician and teacher. He won 3. prize and special prizes at various national soloist competitions.

Bolyky Zoltán

He was born in 1980 in Budapest, to a musical family. At the age of five and eight respectively, when he started his violin and piano studies. His first encounter with orchestral music at the music school has proved to be a decisive impetus to his professional orientation.

Cser Ádám

Ádám Cser conductor and composer graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in 2010 as a student of András Ligeti. Over the course of his studies, as an Erasmaus student he attended the Vienna Music Academy where Mark Stringer was his professor.

Devin Patrick Hughes

Devin Patrick Hughes is defined as a Musical Architect and is recognized for his exhila- rating score interpretations, advocation for music accessibility, innate passion with spiri- tual curiosity and entrepreneurial vigor.

Dinyés Dániel

Dániel Dinyés graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in 2005 at the Department of composition. He started working during his studies at the Hungarian State Opera as a repetiteur and also took part in several independent opera productions with excellent musicians, including Balázs Kovalik.

Dobszay Péter

Born in 1990, Péter Dobszay is one of the most remarkable conductors of his generation. Recently, he conducts the Szolnok City Symphony Orchestra while as an organist he works for the Dohány Street Synagogue Budapest and the Holy Angels Church in Gazdagrét district of Budapest. Dobszay is considered the most versatile musician today at the Hungarian music scene.

Erdélyi Dániel

Dániel Erdélyi, cantor of the Reformed Curch Congregation in Pécs-Kertváros, Hungary, is considered one of the most gifted young Hungarian conductors.

Farkas Róbert

Róbert Farkas was born in 1982 in Ózd, Hungary. He started his music studies at his age of eight in Heves, before he continued his solfeggio, music theory and piano studies at the Bartók Béla Music Conservatory in Budapest. From 2006, after graduating from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music as a vocal and music teacher and choral conductor and starting his orchestral conducting studies, Róbert Farkas continued at the Universität de Künste in Berlin.

Front Yael

Up and coming conductor Yael Front is looking forward to an exciting 2017-18 season as music director of the Cincinnati Chamber Opera and the University of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, as well as Conducting Fellow with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

Georgios Balatsinos

Georgios Balatsinos is the Winner of the International Concert Competition for Young Conductors In Berlin 2016, in 2017 was selected as one of the top three finalists at the workshop INTERAKTION des Kritischen Orchesters Berlin by members of orchestras such as Berlin Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden and Staatskapelle Berlin etc., Semifinalis of Donatella Flick Conducting competition (UK), and 1st Prizewinner of the "International Conducting Competition Black Sea 2012" (RU) .

Henry Hao-An Cheng

As the Assistant Conductor of the Bochumer Symphoniker, and recent invitations to work with Maestros Bernard Haitink and Kurt Masur at the prestigious Lucerne and Aurora Festivals, Henry has gained a reputation as a passionate, rising young conductor.

Ilya Ram

Ilya Ram was born on January 1991 in New-York. He began studying the piano at the age of 6. Ramgraduated from high-school with excellence in the departments of music and philosophy after which he spent a year doing educational volunteer work in a developing town in Israel. He began studying conducting at the age of 19 with Maestro Guy Feder while continuing his volunteer work with the Israeli branch of Physicians for Human Rights. In 2011 he began his studies in the Buchmann Mehta School of Music in Maestro Yi-An Xu’s class.

Johanna Malangré

Johanna Malangré is Assistant Conductor with the Bergische Symphoniker. She has been selected for the prestigious Conducting Fellowship at Lucerne Festival Academy 2017 and is a winner of the 2015 Richard-Wagner-Scholarship.

Johannes Marsovszky

Johannes Marsovszky was born in 1994 in Munich. In 2000 he went to a French-German bilingual elementary and secondary school before starting his piano and violin studies at the Pestalozzi music high school he graduated from in 2009. At that time he also started having vocal trainings with Alison Hagley.

Junping Quian

Chinese conductor Junping Qian is currently studying orchestra conducting in Musik Hochschule Hanns Eisler in Berlin under Pro.Christian Ehwald and Hans-Dieter Baum. He was a prize winner of Delun Li China National conducting competition in 2012.

Ka Hou Fan

Ka Hou Fan, born and raised in Macau, graduated in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Kaposi Benedek

Benedek Kaposi was born in 1991 in Budapest. After graduating at the special math class of the Fazekas Mihály Highschool in Budapest, from 2011 he studied solfeggio and music theory at the Bartók Béla Music Conservatory. From 2012 he continued his conducting studies at the University of Pécs before he was accepted to the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest in 2014. In 2017 Benedek Kaposi received a scholarship at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna.

Károlyi Sándor

Sándor Károlyi was born 1989 in Munich from a Hungarian father and a Swiss mother. He grew up in Munich, Geneva and Vienna. Currently, he works as regular guest conductor at the Budapest MAV Symphonie Orchestra, the Alba Regia Symphony Orchestra in Hungary and the Orchestra Collegium Musicum in Pommersfelden, Germany. He is also the assistant of Gá́bor Takács-‐Nagy at the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Manchester Camerata, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Orchestre de Dijon-‐Bourgogne in France.

Leonardo Sini

Italian conductor Leonardo Sini began his musical studies at the Conservatory of Music "L. Canepa" in Sassari. In 2013 he gained his Masters degree in trumpet at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he also commenced his studies in conducting with Sian Edwards. He has recently completed his Masters degree in orchestral conducting in the ‘National Master of Orchestral Conducting programme, studying with Jac van Steen, Ed Spanjaard and Kenneth Montgomery at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Leonardo has received important prizes in several international music competitions and performed with numerous ensembles.

Silva Mónica

Mónica Lopes Tomás da Silva was born in Portugal in September 1987 where she had the first years of music education. At the age of 18 she accepted a full sports scholarship (tennis) to study in United States.

Nimrod David Pfeffer

Israeli-born conductor Nimrod David Pfeffer serves as Assistant Conductor at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City, and as Music Director of the Lyric Opera Company of Guatemala. He made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 2014, sharing the podium with James Levine at the DiMenna Center in New York.

Pablo Urbina

At just 29 years of age, this young Spanish conductor is quickly gaining recognition for his passionate and in depth approach to music, having already conducted in Europe, America and Asia.

Paolo Bortolameolli

Praised by composer George Crumb for his "sensitive and insightful interpretation", conductor Paolo Bortolameolli brings a visual, synthetic and collaborative approach to music that is infused by his fascination for and interplay among the arts. With his passion for connecting the 21st century audience to the concert stage, Mr. Bortolameolli enjoys conducting orchestral music, working with youth orchestras, collaborating with today’s composers, lecturing and writing.

Paul Marsovszky

Paul Marsovszky was born in 1994 in München. He was fascinated by music even at his young age when he started playing the piano and the violin.

Petr Popelka

Among recent conducting engagements of Petr Popelka was the performance of La Traviata in April 2017 at Opera house in Constanta (Rumania), in recognition for the Third Prize from the “Black Sea Opera Conducting Competition 2016“.

Ricardo Arzate-Gonzales

Ricardo Arzate-González was born in Toluca, Mexico. In 2010, he was awarded first place in the Young Performers of Toluca Competition in Mexico, winning a scholarship to continue his studies in Milan, Italy.

Sergei Akimov

Sergei Akimov, born in 1989 in Moscow (Russia), had his first conducting lessons at the age of 13. In 2011, he became a student of Moscow P.I.Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where the head of department is famous Maestro Gennadiy Rozhdestvensky.

Shoji Haraguchi

Shoji Haraguchi started his conducting career as assistant fellow of Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra Tokyo while studying under prof. Tatsuya Shimono at Ueno Gakuen, Tokyo, in 2012. At the same year, Mr. Haraguchi won the First Prize of Danube international conducting competition, Budapest Hungary.

Tosifumi Kanai

With the broad range of repertoire from the traditional literature to contemporary music, conductor Toshifumi Kanai has made appearances in the music scenes in Europe and Japan.

Chi-Chen Madeline Tsai

Chi-Chen Madeline TSAI enjoyed a very varied and solid musical education in her native Taiwan, beginning with piano at age five and adding percussion, choir and voice education over the course of her childhood. She earned her BFA Degree in Percussion performance from the Taipei National University of the Arts. Further studies led her to the US and Europe where she studied organ with Ken Cowan(USA) and Martin Haselboeck(Austria) and earned her Master of Music degree at Westminster Choir College of Rider university, majoring in both Church music and Choral Conducting.

Victor Aviat

Born in 1982 in Montpellier, Victor Aviat studied oboe, piano, organ and composition in Paris, Geneva and Zurich.

Albert Gonzálvez Cardós

Was born in Valencia in 1988. It is at the "Joaquin Rodrigo" conservatory of this city where he obtains the piano degree in juny 2013.Oneyear later, in 2014, he completes advancedstudies in conducting with the higest qualification, obtaining the special price cumlaude in conducting. In 2016 begins his studies in the Universität Mozarteum in Wind Orchestra conducting and ChoirconductingwithJorgeRotterandKarlKamper.

Alexander Colding Smith

Australian and Danish conductor Alexander Colding Smith’s precise, elegant performances cover traditional orchestral and operatic repertoire as well as the works of living composers.