Three awards at the 9th Neeme Järvi Prize
Omer Ein Zvi, Alizé Léhon and Gabriel Pernet are the winners of the 9th Neeme Järvi Prize, which was awarded as part of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy.
Over the past two weeks, ten conductors have had the opportunity to work with the Gstaad Festival Orchestra as part of the Gstaad Conducting Academy. Under the direction of Jaap van Zweden, Music Director of the New York Philharmonic and Johannes Schlaefli, Professor of Conducting at the Zurich University of the Arts, they led numerous rehearsals and concerts.
At the final concert, three of them were awarded the Neeme Järvi Prize: The Israeli conductor Omer Ein Zvi will conduct the Bern Symphony Orchestra as a guest conductor in the coming season. Thanks to her win, Alizé Léhon will be invited to conduct the Musikkollegium Winterthur and the Basel Symphony Orchestra. The Swiss conductor Gabriel Pernet wins guest conducting engagements with the Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonie Südwestfalen and the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.
The jury was made up of the chairman Christoph Müller (Artistic Director Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy), the professors of the Gstaad Conducting Academy Jaap van Zweden and Johannes Schlaefli, as well as members of the partner orchestras and the Gstaad Festival Orchestra.
