A conducting competition without women
NewsIn 2022, who’d have thought?
Oh, it’s Monte Carlo.
Here the candidates of the Second Qualifying Round of the Evgeny Svetlanov International Competition:
1. Henri Christofer Aavik (Estonia), 27 y.o.
2. Elias Brown (USA), 27 y.o.
3. Samy Rachid (France), 29 y.o.
4. Ilya Ram (USA / Israel), 31 y.o.
5. Harish Shankar (Germany), 38 y.o.
6. Euan Shields (USA), 23 y.o.
7. Jesko Sirvend (Germany), 35 y.o.
8. Hankyeol Yoon (South Korea / Germany), 28 y.o.
It’s better to have no women at all than quota women like the giggling puppet in the Rotterdam Competition finals.
thanks god
If it is that the best competitors have all been men, that is very good. Competitors should be based only on quality, and if one day all the best competitors are women, that will be good too.
But a competition with only men in the final is not surprising since most conducting students are men. There is nothing wrong with that: almost all harp students are female, and in harp competitions it is rare to see men in the finals.
Depp victorious! Ban the broads!
Sure. And major orchestras without women principals include Cleveland, Berlin, Vienna, and San Francisco. And female conductors being presented in top 10 orchestras? Maybe each has one or two weeks. Classical music is still a boy’s club, unfortunately.
Refreshing in a way. I’d rather have no women than token women.
Anyone who understands the elementary rules of mathematics, and therefore statistics, would have thought so.
Oh please stop protesting There is now so many women on the podiums now. The change in 5 years has been massive. Still not enough?
Maybe they were selected on merit.
Better than just having the token woman as a statistic or a quota. In this case, may the best man win!
Didn’t know that the inclusion of a woman on the final list is an obligation. Is there a black? An oriental? A Native American?
Didn’t know the name of Svetlanov is so popular in Monaco. Proud of the Soviet conducting school and legacy. No dubbed patriotism, just proud of. Thanks for posting this.
But what’s the full story here ? Maybe only men applied ? Not much to base this dramatic headline on.
We should know how many woman applied and what was their level.
There were two women candidates, not good enough for being qualified to the second round. Very normal in 2022.
Who would had thought in a such poor article in 2022?!
Any idea about male/female ratios among conducting students in leading music schools 5-10 years ago?
Shameful… clearly a sexist set of judges. Perhaps a Putin-endorsed event?
The CEO is a woman. Half the executive committee are women.
“The Competition is open to conductors of all nationalities who have completed their training. Applications will be considered regardless of candidates’ political persuasion, ethnic origin, faith, gender, marital status or disability unrelated to the profession.”
Maybe, it is to do with the Nordic gender equality paradox?
Maybe there simply weren’t any qualified female applicants. Not everything is about #metoo.
In 10 years they’ll be complaining if there aren’t any transsexual applicants.
They probably already are.