8th Neeme Järvi Prize awarded
The 8th Neeme Järvi Prize was awarded as part of the Gstaad Conducting Academy. The winners were Yukuang Jin, Anna Sułkowska-Migoń and Aurel Dawidiuk.
Over the past three weeks, ten up-and-coming conductors have had the opportunity to work with the Gstaad Festival Orchestra and the Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra as part of the Gstaad Conducting Academy. Under the direction of Jaap van Zweden, Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Principal Guest Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, 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 this year's ten participants were awarded the Neeme Järvi Prize: Chinese conductor Yukuang Jin will conduct as a guest conductor with the Philharmonie Südwestfalen in an upcoming season. Anna Sułkowska-Migoń will be invited to conduct the Bern Symphony Orchestra, Musikkollegium Winterthur and Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn thanks to her win. The German conductor Aurel Dawidiuk wins a guest conducting position with the Basel Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne and the Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra.
The jury for the Neeme Järvi Prize 2023 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, two representatives of the Gstaad Festival Orchestra (Vlad Stančuleasa, concertmaster and Polina Peskina, 1st flute), as well as representatives of the partner orchestras.
