Nicolò Foron wins Donatella Flick
Foron is awarded a £15,000 cash prize by Donatella Flick and becomes Assistant Conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra for up to one year.
We are so proud and happy that Nicolò Foron was announced [23 March] as the winner of the 17th Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition, following three days of competition and incredible music-making at LSO St Luke’s, London.
Internationally renowned as one of the world’s leading music competitions, the Competition’s prize package is unparalleled and will enable the 25-year old Italian-born German conductor to lay the foundations for a successful conducting career, following in the footsteps of esteemed previous winners such as Elim Chan, François-Xavier Roth and Clemens Schuldt.
The Final was live streamed on medici.tv and hosted by Gramophone Editor-in-Chief James Jolly, and will now be available to view globally on-demand for 90 days.
The Italo-German conductor, pianist and composer Nicolò Umberto Foron is principal assistant conductor of Ensemble Intercontemporain, Paris and winner of the International Conducting Competition Jeunesse Musicales Bucharest. In 2022 he was selected for the Peter Eötvös' Mentoring Program and as a Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood Festival.
Nicolò Foron said: “Thank you so much to the jury, to Donatalla Flick and to the magnificent players of the London Symphony Orchestra. It has been such a great week. I’m ecstatic.”
David Alberman, Chair of the Jury, LSO Principal Second Violin and Chair, said:
“We have witnessed some tremendous music-making this week with 20 exceptional conductors from all over Europe inspiring us to feel that the future of music is in great hands. We offer our huge congratulations and thanks to each of them.
However in the end the jury came to the clear decision that of all the competitors, it was Nicolò’s outstanding combination of charisma, energy, technique and musicianship which demonstrated the greatest potential for an exciting future career. We look forward to many more performances conducted by him!”
80 conductors applied to the Competition this year, with 20 shortlisted for the First Round by an expert selection panel; ten of these then progressed to the Second Round, before three Finalists were chosen to compete in the Final Round. The Competition is open to conductors aged 30 and under who are citizens of the UK; countries having full membership of the European Union; and Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein or Switzerland.
Nicolò Foron is represented worldwide by Leontien van der Vliet and Hylke van Lingen
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