Competitors 2010
- Elizabeth Askren
The staging points in Elizabeth Askren’s training as a conductor and pianist were Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson (New York), the École Normale de Musique and Schola Cantorum in Paris, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (Ohio) and New York’s Juilliard School.
- Cornelius Heine
After attending school in Cologne, Cornelius Heine studied in Munich, Detmold and Amsterdam. Born in Geseke (North Rhine-Westphalia) in 1977, he counts among his teachers the pianists Anatol Ugorski and Irwin Gage, as well as Hermann Michael, from whose conducting class in Munich he graduated.
- Seokwon Hong
Seokwon Hong, born in Daegu (South Korea) in 1982, graduated from the Seoul State University conductors’ course in 2007 and continued his training in Berlin at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy with Christian Ehwald, complementing his conducting studies with master classes under Myung-Whun Chung, Bernard Haitink and Ulrich Windfuhr.
- Yordan Kamdzhalov
Academy in Sofia and at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin. He has attended master classes and workshops under, among others, Kurt Masur, Bernard Haitink, Sir Simon Rattle and Daniel Barenboim.
- Francesco Lanzillotta
Francesco Lanzillotta was born in Rome in 1977 and studied at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia. Further stages in his artistic development included master classes under Harold Farberman at the Conductors Institute of Bard College, Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana and George Pehlivanian in Madrid.
- Alexander Prior
Born in 1992 in London, Alexander Prior attended the Royal College of Music, later moving to the St. Petersburg Conservatoire, where he has been studying conducting and composition since 2006.
- Ainars Rubikis
Born in 1978 in Riga, Ainārs Rubiķis attended his native city’s cathedral choir school and later studied at the Latvian Music Academy. His career has encompassed a very wide range of conducting engagements, from choral to orchestral. He has taken part in master classes with, among others, Mariss Jansons and Zsolt Nagy.
- Scott Seaton
Scott Robert Seaton, born in 1982 in Colorado Springs (Colorado), received his musical training at the New England Conservatory in Boston and the Université de Montréal.
- Aziz Shokhakimov
Aziz Shokhakimov was born in Tashkent in 1988 and studied conducting at his native city’s State Conservatoire. In 2005 he was awarded the State ‘Nikhol’ Prize for talented young musicians.
- Lam Tran Dinh
Born in 1982 in Kaiserslautern, Lam Tran Dinh studied conducting at the University for Music and the Arts in Vienna. He continued his training at master classes under, among others, Jorma Panula and Daniel Harding and, in 2009, took part in the 7th ‘Interaktion’ Conducting Workshop at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin.
- Kosuke Tsunoda
Born in 1980 in Aichi, Kosuke Tsunoda began his studies at the State University for Music and the Arts in Tokyo. In 2003 he passed his final exam in conducting and won the Ataka Prize.
- Ksenia Zharko
Born in 1977 in Moscow, Ksenia Zharko completed her studies in operatic and symphonic conducting at the city’s Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. She attended master classes with, among others, Sir Colin Davis, Vladimir Fedoseyev und James Judd.