The International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors, is a
music competition
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for young
conductors in the city of
Besançon
Besançon (, , , ; archaic german: Bisanz; la, Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzer ...
, France.
History
The competition was organized for the first time in 1951 by the music and film critic and composer
Émile Vuillermoz Émile-Jean-Joseph Vuillermoz (23 May 1878 – 2 March 1960) was a French critic in the areas of music, film, drama and literature. He was also a composer, but abandoned this for criticism.
Early life
Émile Vuillermoz was born in Lyon in 1878. He ...
, as part of the
Besançon International Music Festival, founded three years before. Many conductors who won the competition have established successful international careers, including
Seiji Ozawa,
Ali Rahbari
Ali (Alexander) Rahbari ( fa, علی رهبری; also Romanized as "Alī Rahbarī", ; born 1948) is an Iranian composer and conductor, who has worked with more than 120 European orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Mariinsky Ope ...
,
Jesús López-Cobos
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and
Sylvain Cambreling
Sylvain Cambreling (born 2 July 1948 in Amiens, France) is a French conductor.
Biography
Trained as a trombone player, Cambreling studied at the Paris Conservatoire. He joined l' Orchestre Symphonique de Lyon (OSL) as a trombonist in 1971. In 19 ...
.
The first prize consists of a cash prize and engagements with important orchestras such as the
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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, Ensemble orchestral contemporain,
Dresden Philharmonic
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and
Opera North Sinfonia.
Winners
The winners of the competition are:
* 1951
Reinhard Peters
* 1952
Jean Périsson
Jean Périsson (6 July 1924 in Arcachon – 18 February 2019) was a French Conducting, conductor.
Career
A pupil of Jean Fournet, he won the first prize at the Besançon conducting competition in 1952. He was assistant to Igor Markevitch at the Sa ...
* 1953
Peter Traunfellner
* 1954
Peter Chaille
* 1955
Jerzy Katlewicz
* 1956
Zdeněk Košler Zdeněk Košler (March 25, 1928 – July 2, 1995) was a Czechoslovak conductor, who played an important role in Czechoslovak musical life of the second half of 20th century, notably during the 1960s and 1980s.Sleeve note of the Supraphon CD (SU 007 ...
, first mention
Sergiu Comissiona
Sergiu Comissiona (June 16, 1928 – March 5, 2005) was a Romanian-Israeli-American conductor and violinist.
Biography
Early life
Born in Bucharest, Romania in a Jewish family, he began violin studies at the age of five, was hired as a violin ...
* 1957
Jean Lapierre
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After retiring from the government in 2007, he served as a political analyst in a variety of venues.
He was Paul Martin's Qu ...
* 1958
Martin Turnovsky
* 1959
Seiji Ozawa
* 1960
Poul Jorgensen
* 1961
Pierre Hetu
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* 1962
Vladimir Kojoukharov
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* Volodymyr for the Ukr ...
* 1963
Aloïs Springer
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* 1964
Emil Simon
Emil Simon (24 September 1936 – 25 February 2014) was a Romanian conductor and composer.
Life and career
Born in 1936 in Chișinău, Kingdom of Romania, Romania, Emil Simon began studying the piano at the early age of 6. After acquiring more ...
* 1965
Zdeněk Mácal
Zdeněk Mácal (; born 8 January 1936) is a Czech conductor.
Mácal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and began violin lessons with his father at the age of four. He later attended the Brno Conservatory and the Janáček Academy of Music an ...
* 1966 ''no first prize awarded''
* 1967
Yuval Zaliouk
Yuval Zaliouk (יובל צליוק, born 1939 in Haifa) is an Israeli- American conductor.
Born into a musical family, he was educated at the Haifa Academy of MusicLuis Antonio García Navarro
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Biography
García Navarro was born in Chiva (Spain), and studied in Valencia and the Madrid Royal ...
* 1968
Jesús López-Cobos
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and
Philippe Bender
Philippe Bender (born 25 February 1942 in Besançon, France) is a French flautist and conductor.
In 1976, he was appointed artistic director and permanent chef of the He is also titular conductor and artistic director of the Orchestre sympho ...
* 1969 ''no first prize awarded''
* 1970
Stéphane Cardon
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* Stéphane Adam (born 1969), French footballer
* Stéphane Agbre Dasse (born 1989), Burkinabé football player
* Stéphane Allagno ...
* 1971 ''no first prize awarded''
* 1972
Jacques Mercier (conductor)
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The third eldest son of René and Denise Mercier, Jacques Mercier was educated at St. Joseph's College. Mercier joined RTBF in September ...
* 1973 ''no first prize awarded''
* 1974
Alex Veelo, 2nd prize
Sylvain Cambreling
Sylvain Cambreling (born 2 July 1948 in Amiens, France) is a French conductor.
Biography
Trained as a trombone player, Cambreling studied at the Paris Conservatoire. He joined l' Orchestre Symphonique de Lyon (OSL) as a trombonist in 1971. In 19 ...
* 1975
Marc Soustrot
Marc Soustrot (born 15 April 1949) is a French classical conductor. He was the music director of the Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire from 1976 to 1994, and from 1995 to 2003 GMD of the Beethoven Orchester Bonn which plays in both opera ...
* 1976
Patrick Juzeau
* 1977
Tomas Koutnik and
Ali Rahbari
Ali (Alexander) Rahbari ( fa, علی رهبری; also Romanized as "Alī Rahbarī", ; born 1948) is an Iranian composer and conductor, who has worked with more than 120 European orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Mariinsky Ope ...
* 1978
Yoel Levi
Yoel Levi (Hebrew: יואל לוי) (born 16 August 1950) is an Israeli musician and conductor.
Early life
Born in Romania, Levi grew up in Israel.
He studied at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music, receiving a Master of Arts degree with distinction. ...
* 1979
Doron Salomon
* 1980
Jonathan Seers
* 1981
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* 1982
Yôko Matsuo and
Osmo Vänskä
Osmo Antero Vänskä (born 28 February 1953) is a Finnish conductor, clarinetist, and composer.
Biography
Vänskä started his musical career as an orchestral clarinetist with the Turku Philharmonic (1971–76). He then became the principal cla ...
* 1983
Michael Zilm, mention for
Carlo Rizzi
* 1984
Wolfgang Doerner
* 1985
Wing-Sie Yip, 2nd prize
Rodolfo Saglimbeni
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.
* 1986
Gilles Auger
* 1987
Nicolás Pasquet
Nicolás Pasquet (born 1958) is a conductor from Uruguay and professor of conducting.
Biography
Born in 1958 in Montevideo, Uruguay, Pasquet studied violin and conducting at the National Music College. He later studied in Germany, violin at the ...
* 1988
Lü Shao-chia
Lü Shao-chia (; born 1960) is a Taiwanese conductor. He has been music director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan since 2010.
Biography
Born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Lü studied piano at an early age. Initiated by Taiwanese conductor ...
* 1989
Christopher Gayford and
Yutaka Sado
is a Japanese conductor.
While still in school, Sado obtained a position in the Kansai Nikikai, a Japanese school of opera, where he had the opportunity to work with the New Japan Philharmonic and the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, learning operati ...
* 1990
Ryusuke Numajiri
* 1991
George Pehlivanian
George Pehlivanian (born 20 April 1964) is a French-American conductor.
Biography
A French-American conductor, born in Beirut, Lebanon, into a musical family of Armenian origin. His mother, Arpine Pehlivanian, is a Lebanese Armenian classica ...
* 1992
Tommaso Placidi
* 1993
Silvia Massarelli and
Daisuke Soga
* 1995
Tetsuro Ban
* 1994
Lü Shao-chia
Lü Shao-chia (; born 1960) is a Taiwanese conductor. He has been music director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan since 2010.
Biography
Born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Lü studied piano at an early age. Initiated by Taiwanese conductor ...
* 1997
Marco Parisotto
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* 1999
Alvaro Albiach-Fernandez
* 2001
Tatsuya Shimono
is a common masculine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
Tatsuya can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
*達也, "master/accomplished, to be"
*達矢, "master/accomplished, arrow"
*竜也, "dragon, to be"
*竜哉, "d ...
* 2003 ''no first prize awarded''
* 2005
Lionel Bringuier
Lionel Bringuier (born 24 September 1986), Nice, is a French conductor, cellist and pianist.
Bringuier is the fourth child in a family of musicians, including his brother Nicolas Bringuier, a pianist. At age 5, Bringuier began musical studies at ...
* 2007
Darrell Ang
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* 2009
Kazuki Yamada
* 2011
Yuki Kakiuchi
* 2013
Yao-Yu Wu
* 2015
Jonathon Heyward
Jonathon Heyward is an American conductor. From 2016, he was assistant conductor of The Hallé, and music director of The Hallé Youth Orchestra. He has been chief conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie from 2021. On July 21, 2022, the ...
* 2017
Ben Glassberg
* 2019
Nodoka Okisawa
References
External links
International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors — Official website
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Conducting competitions
Besançon International Music Festival