German Conductor Award

The German Conductor Award (DDP) is an international competition for concert and opera conducting and serves to promote young talent for conductors of all nations who are younger than 32 years.

History of the price

The German Conductor Award is a competition initiated by the German Music Council (Bonn), which is held with the Cologne Philharmonic , the Cologne Opera , the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and the WDR Symphony Orchestra . As a cultural partner, the competition is accompanied by the media of the culture wave WDR 3 of Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Initially, this prize was first awarded in 1995 as a prize by the Conductors' Forum to outstanding scholarship holders of the funding program, then in 2017 it was held internationally for the first time and is held every two years. The consideration of the genres opera and concert in the repertoire can be described as a unique selling point. The competition is open to the public from the second evaluation round.

Prize money

The prize is endowed with a total of 34,000 euros, making it one of the most highly endowed conducting competitions in Europe.

• 1st prize: 15,000 euros
• 2nd prize: 10,000 euros (donated by the Ernsting Foundation Alter Hof Herding)
• 3rd prize: 5,000 euros (donated by the International Kurt Masur Institute)
• Audience award: 2,500 euros (donated by the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation)
• Prize of the Opera Friends Bonn: 1,000 euros
• Bärenreiter Prize for the best interpretation of a work from the 20th / 21st century Century: 500 euros (donated by Bärenreiter-Verlag )

The winners will receive concert engagements and assistance at opera houses and German partner orchestras ( Beethoven Orchester Bonn , Gürzenich Orchester Cologne , Hofer Symphoniker , Munich Symphony Orchestra , Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra , Cologne Opera , German State Philharmonic Rhineland-Palatinate and WDR Symphony Orchestra).

jury

• Peter Gülke , honorary chairman, conductor and musicologist
• Lothar Zagrosek , chairman and conductor
• Lioba brown . Mezzo-soprano
• Siegwald Bütow, manager and producer of the WDR Symphony Orchestra
• Louwrens Langevoort , director of the Cologne Philharmonic
• Birgit Meyer , artistic director of the Cologne Opera
• Stephan Mösch , music and theater scholar, publicist

Award winners

• 2017: Hossein Pishkar
• 2019: Julio G. Vico

Web links

• Homepage of the award
• Deutschlandfunk Musikjournal from October 2, 2017: German Conductor Award in Cologne. The baton all-rounder sought and found by Bjørn Woll
• Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from October 16, 2019 Culture : Lifting the class from the crowd , by Rainer Nonnenmann

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Conductor Award of October 18, 2019: Julio García Vico wins the German Conductor Award 2019 , accessed on October 28, 2019