German wins London conducting contest
OrchestrasThe young Italian-German conductor Nicolò Foron was last night proclaimed winner of the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition.
Foron, 25, wins £15,000 and a year’s service as Assistant Conductor at the London Symphony Orchestra (he’ll need to learn how to make tea).
The runners up were Jiří Habart (Cz.) and Jakub Przybycień (Pol.).
Foron is already principal assistant conductor of Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris and a Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood Festival. He is agented by Interartists in Amsterdam.
This season he will debut with Orchestre National de Montpellier, Staatskapelle Weimar and the Gewandhaus Orchestra Mendelssohn Academy.
Agented?????
“Represented” is so old-fashioned, you know…
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Speak of pedantic…..can NL say anything that won’t be picked apart??Such vitriolic comments by supposed educated classical.music lovers.
“Agented?????”
Indeed. But we’re fighting a losing battle. As I’ve said before, there ain’t no noun that can’t be verbed.
Well done for him- but ‘Baby’ conducting competitions are absolutely gruesome & should be banned across the board. No one is remotely good at conducting under the age of 30- despite the media’s & the Classical Music industry’s unhealthy obsession with youth.
Counterexamples: Salonen and Rattle…
Also Gergiev, Temirkanov, Kazuki Yamada, Seiji Ozawa among the big names only
Nonsense….Ever heard of Karajan,Mehta, Sawallisch, Cantelli et al…..? Not to mention the phenomenal young guard today….Mehta was clearly much more interesting in his mid twenties than 30 years later.
As an orchestra player for 44 years, it´s always amusing to read those armchair conductor lore…
I’m a trained professional conductor tx trumpet Hearld. What second division orchestra u played in- never heard of you?
So many you´ll never conduct, not even from your armchair.All German radio orchestras, Stuttgart ,Frankfurt and Munich operas.
Which amateur chorus do you lead?
The last two Donatella Flick competition winners were redheads. Redheads represent 1 to 2% of the global population. Even if we assume the same percentages among conductors, the odds of this happening are 0.04% or 1:2499!
Speaking of which, can you name one famous redhead conductor?
Martin Brabbins used to be, I think.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Teacher in the jury. Awkward.
He will also make his debut with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra on 18 May 2023 in an all-French programme at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford.
When I see on youtube how this guy is conductong Brahms Haydn Variations and compare this bad achievement with the glorification made by these competetions commitees I realy get very concerned about the future of classical music.
The lament of the goners,again.