First prize for Lausanne at Leipzig conducting competition
Lorenzo Viotti, the chief conductor of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, born in Lausanne in 1990, took first place in the conducting competition of the Central German music academies in Leipzig.
Viotti studies at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar in the class of Nicolás Pasquet and Martin Hoff. Second place went to Giedre Slekyte from Leipzig (class of Barbara Rucha) and third place to Johannes Köhler, another student from Weimar (class of Gunter Kahlert / Martin Hoff / Nicolás Pasquet).
Viotti began studying percussion at the age of 10. He graduated with honors from the Lyon Conservatory in 2008. At the same time, he studied piano and singing.
After numerous national concert appearances as an orchestral and chamber musician, he moved to Vienna in 2009 to continue his studies. Lorenzo Viotti has been chief conductor of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (ASO) since February 2012. In summer 2012, he was selected for the final concert of Nicolás Pasquet's Weimar masterclass with the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra.
