Conductors' forum
The Conductors' Forum is the nationwide funding program of the German Music Council for young conductors in Germany , which promotes young talents in the fields of orchestral conducting and choral conducting through masterclasses and stands for the artistic encounter of the young generation of conductors with nationally and internationally renowned conductors.
history
The nationwide support program of the Conductor Forum of the German Music Council emerged in 1991 from a merger of the previously independent conducting support measures in East and West Germany. Since 1960, the German Music Council (DMR) has organized so-called selection conducting within the framework of the “ German Music Competition ” (DMW) and the Federal Selection of Concerts of Young Artists (BA KJK), which took place at the Hanover Radio Orchestra . In 1988/89 and 1989/90 they were held as conductor forums for the DMW. In the GDR from about 1969, founded by the then Central Stage Proof, the later Directorate for Theater and Orchestra , conducting courses took place in Jena , Gotha , Berlin and Weimar . In the years 1975 to 1989 there was also the "Permanent Jury Conducting of the GDR" under the direction of Kurt Masur .
In 1991 the existing initiatives were brought together under the umbrella of the German Music Council: The Conductors' Forum, which still exists today, was created. In 2008 the program was expanded to include support for young choir conductors.
goals and tasks
The Conductors' Forum is aimed at young conductors in Germany. Above-average talented young conductors are prepared for top positions in professional musical life by taking part in master classes and arranging assistance and promotional concerts.
The multi-year support program can lead to the award of the German Conductor Prize or the German Choral Conductor Prize for top talent.
In the Conductors' Forum, the scholarship holders can look forward to an extensive work program with professional orchestras and choirs. Every year around twenty masterclasses take place at the Conductors' Forum, which are led by experienced mentors and offer scholarship holders the opportunity to gain further qualifications under professional conditions. Assistance, promotional concerts, prizes and grants are further components of the grant, whereby the offered measures are individually tailored to the grant recipients. The Conductors' Forum works with a steadily growing number of conductors, orchestras, choirs, music theater ensembles and public broadcasters . Well over a hundred German cultural orchestras as well as radio, opera and semi-professional choirs are now partners of the Conductors Forum. Cooperations with foreign orchestras complement the comprehensive offer.
Another component of the funding from the Conductors' Forum is arranging concerts via the list of artists “Maestros of Tomorrow”. This list of artists is aimed at the sponsors of the German cultural orchestras, who can engage the presented scholarship holders for concerts and other tasks within their orchestra operations. The costs for this can be borne by the German Music Council on request.
Publications
Every six months, the Conductors' Forum provides information about the work and events of the project in the magazine “Mitteilungen”. Once a year, the artist list “Maestros of Tomorrow” is published, which introduces outstanding scholarship holders and places them in orchestras.
Sponsor
The Conductors' Forum is mainly financed by funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the State Cultural Foundation . Other sponsors are the Society for the Exploitation of Ancillary Rights , the German Orchestra Association , the German Orchestra Foundation , the German Stage Association and the publishers Bärenreiter as well as Breitkopf & Härtel and Carus . Activities abroad are supported by the Goethe Institute .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.dirigentenforum.de/maestros-von-morgen/kuensterliste ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.orchesterstiftung.de
