Operetta prize goes to Dominic Limburg
The German Music Council and the Leipzig Opera have awarded the German Operetta Prize for Young Conductors for the eighth time to a young conductor for his achievements in the operetta field. This year's prize goes to Dominic Limburg, a graduate of the Zurich University of the Arts.
Dominic Limburg initially studied piano and singing before taking up his conducting studies with Johannes Schlaefli at the Zurich University of the Arts in 2013. In 2014, he conducted a school concert of the Bern Symphony Orchestra, conducted a performance of Smetana's "The Bartered Bride" in Teplice and took over the musical direction of Pergolesi's "La Serva Padrona" as part of the Rüttihubeliade Festival in Bern.
He has also assisted with productions at the Zurich University of the Arts and the Theater Biel-Solothurn. In 2015, he was a guest conductor with the Orquestra Experimental de Repertório in São Paulo, among others. Dominic Limburg has been sponsored by the Dirigentenforum since 2015.
