Honor for Aurel Dawidiuk in Hamburg
Aurel Dawidiuk, who is studying for a Master's degree in Music Performance with Christoph-Mathias Mueller at the Conductors Studio ZHdK, has won the Ritter Prize of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation, endowed with 15,000 euros.
Dawidiuk has been studying orchestral conducting with Johannes Schlaefli and Christoph-Mathias Mueller and piano with Till Fellner at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) since 2020, as well as organ with Martin Sander at the Basel Music Academy. He is currently a scholarship holder of the German Foundation for Musical Life and the Conducting Forum of the German Music Council for top young conductors. He was recently appointed Associate Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. He will take over the position from the current 2024/25 season.
The Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation awards a special prize to performers and/or composers for particularly outstanding achievements in their fields as part of its funding priorities. The prize is awarded exclusively by a selection committee. Applications are not possible. The Hamburg-based foundation was established in 1963 by Oscar and Vera Ritter and took up its activities after the death of the founders in 1967.
