The 17th Donatella Flick Conducting Competition
21-23 March 2023, LSO St Luke’s, London
The winner was Nicolò Foron
The 2023 competition took place at LSO St Luke's in London on Tuesday 21–Thursday 23 March 2023.
The competition is open to conductors who are aged 30 or under who are citizens of the UK, countries having full membership of the European Union, Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein or Switzerland.
From the applications received, 20 conductors will be selected by a panel to enter Round 1 of the competition, which takes place with the London Symphony Orchestra at LSO St Luke's.
After the first day of competition a Jury selects ten of these for Round 2. From these, three finalists will be chosen after the second day for the Final Round.
The Final Round will be streamed live on Medici TV
2023 Competitors
Congratulations to the 20 shortlisted conductors, who will take part in the Competition in March 2023:
Clara Maria Bauer (Austria)
Félix Benati (France)
David Bui (Germany)
Nicolò Umberto Foron (Germany/Italy)
Jiří Habart (Czechia)
Nathanaël Iselin (France)
Nicolas Kierdorf (Luxembourg)
Zofia Kiniorska (Poland)
Kingsley Lin (United Kingdom)
Aleksandra Melaniuk (Poland)
Artūrs Oskars Mitrevics (Latvia)
Jakub Montewka (Poland)
Kent Moussault (Netherlands)
Jacob Niemann (Germany)
Clément Nonciaux (France)
Jakub Przybycień (Poland)
Matthew Rhodes (United Kingdom)
Konstantinos Terzakis (Greece)
Agata Zając (Poland)
Laurent Zufferey (Switzerland)
Prize
The winner is awarded £15,000 by Donatella Flick and will have the opportunity to become Assistant Conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra for up to one year.
During this time with the LSO the successful conductor will work with the LSO’s Principal and guest conductors on the preparation of concerts, often on the assessment of new scores, take part in the LSO’s education and outreach programme, LSO Discovery, accompany the orchestra on tour and, should the opportunity arise, conduct the LSO in concert.
WNO Associate Conductor in collaboration with the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition
Welsh National Opera is delighted to continue its association with the Competition by offering one of the Finalists the opportunity to join the Company as WNO Associate Conductor for a season. Previous WNO Associate Conductors have included Competition Finalists Kerem Hasan and Harry Ogg. The WNO Associate Conductor will have the opportunity to work with WNO’s Music Director, Tomas Hanus, as well as on a range of productions, concerts and engagement activity in Cardiff and at some of the Company’s touring venues in Wales and England.
Repertoire
Round 1 (Quarter-final)
MOZART Symphony No 39
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 8
PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1
London Symphony Orchestra
Round 2 (Semi-final)
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No1
MOZART Clarinet Concerto
SALLY BEAMISH Variations on a Theme of Benjamin Britten
London Symphony Orchestra
David Cohen LSO Principal Cello
Chris Richards LSO Principal Clarinet
Competition Final
WAGNER Prelude from Tristan and Isolde
GRIEG Peer Gynt Suites 1 and 2
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
London Symphony Orchestra
Jury
David Alberman (Jury Chair) LSO Principal Second Violin & LSO Chair
Sally Beamish Composer
Martyn Brabbins Conductor
Sian Edwards Conductor
Juliana Koch LSO Principal Oboe
Sir Antonio Pappano Conductor
Live Stream
The 17th competition will be broadcast live on Medici TV from 7pm GMT on Thursday 23rd March 2023.
The broadcast is free to view but you must create a free account.