Bärenreiter honors St.Gallen bandmaster
Dominik Beykirch (2nd Kapellmeister at the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar), Mihhail Gerts (1st Kapellmeister at Theater Hagen) and Hermes Helfricht (1st Kapellmeister at Theater St. Gallen) have been awarded the Urtext Prize by Bärenreiter-Verlag.
Bärenreiter-Verlag has been cooperating with the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council for many years to support young conductors. Particularly successful scholarship holders who have been supported in their musical development by the German Music Council over a period of four years receive the Bärenreiter Urtext Prize, which consists of the scores of the nine Beethoven symphonies in the edition by Jonathan Del Mar.
The award ceremony took place as part of the final concert of the Conductors' Forum with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. The final concert offers the young conductors the opportunity to present themselves in a concert at the end of their sponsorship period.
The Conductors' Forum is the German Music Council's nationwide support program for top young conductors, which promotes young talent through master classes and stands for artistic encounters between the young generation of conductors and nationally and internationally renowned conductors.
