The Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition, is a
music competition
A music competition is a public event designed to identify and award outstanding musical ensembles, solo (music), soloists, composers, conducting, conductors, musicologists or compositions. Pop music competitions are music competitions which are h ...
for young
conductors organized by the
Cadaqués Orchestra
The Cadaqués Orchestra (''Orquesta de Cadaqués'' panish ''Orquestra de Cadaqués'' atalan is a chamber orchestra based in Cadaqués, Catalonia, Spain. Founded in 1988 to be the resident orchestra of the Cadaqués Festival, the orchestra has si ...
in
Catalonia
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,
Spain
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.
History
The Cadaqués Orchestra oversees the competition, which is held every two years. In 1992, the first competition was held with the intention of serving as a launchpad for young conductors beginning their professional careers. The first prizes consists of a cash award and engagements to conduct orchestras such as the
BBC Philharmonic
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,
Vienna Chamber Orchestra
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,
Royal Flemish Philharmonic
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,
Bilbao Symphony Orchestra
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RTVE Symphony Orchestra
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Spanish National Orchestra
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and the
Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra. The presidents of the jury have been the conductors
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky was born in Moscow. His parents were the noted conductor and pedagog ...
and
Sir Neville Marriner
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. Lutz Köhler,
Philippe Entremont
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,
Jorma Panula
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,
Alexander Rahbari,
Adrian Leaper
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Biography
Leaper studied horn and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music and for eight years was co-principal horn of the Philharmonia Orchestra. He was Principal Conductor of the ''Orquesta ...
and
Gianandrea Noseda
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have been members of the jury.
In each competition one of the compulsory pieces is a new commission.
Xavier Montsalvatge
Xavier Montsalvatge i Bassols (; 11 March 1912 – 7 May 2002) was a Spanish composer and music critic. He was one of the most influential figures in Catalan music during the latter half of the 20th century.
Biography
Life
Montsalvatge was bor ...
,
Cristóbal Halffter
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,
Luis de Pablo
Luis de Pablo Costales (28 January 1930 – 10 October 2021) was a Spanish composer belonging to the generation that Cristóbal Halffter named ''the Generación del 51''. Mostly self-taught as a composer and influenced by Maurice Ohana and Max ...
,
Joan Guinjoan
Joan Guinjoan i Gispert (28 November 1931 – 1 January 2019) was a Catalan composer and pianist.
Life
Born in Riudoms, Guinjoan studied at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona. In 1954, he moved to Paris and continued ...
and
Leonardo Balada
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Life
Balada was born in Barcelona, Spain. After studying piano at the Conservatori Superior de M� ...
have written pieces for the competition.
Winners
* 2017 First Prize:
Nuno Coelho. Second Prize:
Felix Mildenberger
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.
* 2013 First Prize:
Lorenzo Viotti
Lorenzo Viotti (born 15 March 1990) is a Swiss conductor. He is currently chief conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Dutch National Opera.
Biography
Born in Lausanne the son of conductor Marcello Viotti, Viotti studied piano, ...
. Second Prize: Vlad Vizireanu.
* 2010 First Prize:
Andrew Gourlay
Andrew Gourlay (born 1982) is a British conductor.
Born in Jamaica, Gourlay was subsequently raised in the Bahamas, the Philippines, Japan and the United Kingdom. He is of Russian ancestry.''Andrew Gourlay'' in ''Scherzo'' no.348, February 201 ...
. Second Prize:
Domingo Garcia Hindoyan.
* 2008 First Prize: Michal Nestorowicz. Second Prize: Daniele Rustioni.
* 2006 First Prize:
Pablo González. Second Prize: Justin Doyle.
* 2004 First Prize: ''not awarded''. Second Prize: Hans Leenders.
* 2002 First Prize:
Vasily Petrenko
Vasily Eduardovich Petrenko (; born 7 July 1976) is a Russian-British conductor. He is currently music director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Biography
Of Russian and Ukrainian ancestry, Petrenko was born in Leningrad, USSR. He attend ...
. Second Prize: Jonathan Pasternack.
* 2000 First Prize: ''not awarded''. Second Prize: Christoph Müller.
* 1998 First Prize: Gloria Isabel Ramos. Second Prize: ''not awarded''.
* 1996 First Prize:
Achim Fiedler. Second Prize:
Zsolt Hamar
Zsolt Hamar (born 1968 in Budapest) is a Hungarian conductor.
History
Hamar started to play the piano at the age of six and later studied composition at the Béla Bartók Conservatoire. He followed university studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of ...
.
* 1994 First Prize:
Gianandrea Noseda
Gianandrea Noseda (born 23 April 1964) is an Italian conductor. He is currently the music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C.; general music director (''Generalmusikdirektor)'' of Zurich Opera; principal guest condu ...
. Second Prize:
Christopher Gayford.
* 1992 First Prize: Charles Peebles. Second Prize:
Alejandro Posada.
References
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Conducting competitions
Cadaqués Orchestra