The Princess Astrid Worldwide Music Competitors, based mostly in Trondheim, Norway, has introduced this 12 months’s profitable conductors.
First prize went to the 29-year-old Hong-Kong-born, British conductor Alvin Ho, who obtained 160,000 NOK (€15000) in addition to a future live performance engagement with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra. A previous recipient of the Bruno Walter Conducting fellowship on the Cabrillo Modern Music Competition and Farber Karajan Conducting Fellowship on the Salzburg Competition, Ho was just lately named Assistant Conductor of Naples Philharmonic Orchestra.
Second prize of fifty,000 NOK was awarded to the 33-year outdated Australian-British conductor Toby C Thatcher, whereas third prize of 25,000 NOK went to the 32-year-old Chinese language conductor Junping Qian.
The winners – chosen from 12 contestants – had been introduced following a remaining through which every of the contestants carried out Anna Clyne’s Masquerade, a bit impressed by the 18th century promenade live shows in London’s amusement parks, the place individuals from all walks of life had been entertained by music, acrobatics, unique road performers, dancers, fireworks and costume balls.
Sitting on the jury had been Han-Na Chang (TSO’s chief conductor), Jasper Parrott, Peter Szilvay, Daniel Turcina, Anna-Maria Helsing, Anna Clyne and Elise Båtnes.
Established in 1953, the competitors is a biennial occasion for under-35s that rotates between violin and conducting.
