LSO Donatella Flick Conducting Competition

We've just been sent fliers for a prestigious conducting competition.  The competition takes place in March 2021, but the deadline for applications is Friday 26 June 2020.

If you're an ambitious conductor, you'd better take a look at the details right now!  

https://lso.co.uk/lso-discovery/donatella-flick-lso-conducting-competition.html

Besancon - International Competition for Young Conductors

We've just received notification of this conducting competition, taking place 16-21 September 2019.
Find out more at the competition website:-

http://www.festival-besancon.com/en/besancon-music-festival-news/

DONATELLA FLICK LSO CONDUCTING COMPETITION 2018 20–22 November 2018

Here's a great conducting competition - we've just been notified of the call for applications. 

Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition

The competition is 20-22 November, but the deadline for applications is 20 April, so ... time to get your skates on!

Courses and Competitions for Musicians

Although the Whittaker Library doesn't actively collect details of courses and competitions, at this time of year flyers seem to wing their way to us like homing pigeons.  Yesterday was a record - four flyers in one afternoon!  What can we do but share them with our friends?

Conducting, Piano, Organ, Strings, Wind, Vocal, Chamber ...!

• English Choral Experience: ECO Conducting Course, July 22-30, 2017, Herefordshire http://www.englishchoralexperience.co.uk/ (hurry, deadline for applications is 13 March!)
• Allegro Vivo Summer Academy 2017, northern Austria, 5 August - 3 September (master and youth courses, strings, piano, vocal, winds, chamber music, concerts and prizewinner concerts) https://www.allegro-vivo.at/en/ 
• Pianale Piano Academy, Germany, August 13-30 (International Academy and Competition) www.pianale.com
• 23rd Annual Leos Janacek International Competition in Brno (Czech Republic), September 14-21 (Organ and Piano) http://hfenglish.jamu.cz/leos-janacek-international-competition/

The Flick of a Baton - Young Conductors Showing Potential

CALL FOR ENTRIES: DONATELLA FLICK LSO CONDUCTING COMPETITION 2016 

The Whittaker Library likes to share competition opportunities with our performing arts community.  Today, we share with you the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition:-

The Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition, created by Donatella Flick in 1990, aims to help a young conductor establish an international conducting career.
The winner of the competition is offered, in addition to an award of £15,000, the opportunity to become Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra for up to one year.
The next competition will be held in London on 15–17 November 2016, and is open to conductors under the age of 35 who are citizens of the 28 countries having full membership of the European Union.
Competition entry is open now, and is by online submission only. The deadline is 6pm on 21 April 2016.
ENTER NOW
Click here for full details, rules and the entry form
Please share this email among your contacts and students!

Donatella Flick Conducting Competition

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recently notified us of this conducting competition:-

"CALL FOR ENTRIES: DONATELLA FLICK LSO CONDUCTING COMPETITION 2014"

"The Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition, created by Donatella Flick in 1990, aims to help a young conductor establish an international conducting career. The winner of the competition is offered, in addition to an award of £15,000, the opportunity to become Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra for up to one year. The next competition will be held in London on 6–8 December 2014, and is open to conductors under the age of 35 who are citizens of the 28 countries having full membership of the European Union. Competition entry is open now, and is by online submission only. The deadline is 26 April 2014. ENTER NOW > Click here for full details, rules and the entry form"

Sexism in Music

Read what Last Night of The Proms conductor Marin Alsop had to say about sexism in music, in her Guardian interview last week: Here.

Mind-Reading: Inside a Conductor's Mind

We do love our conductors ... truly, we do!

Compulsory reading for all music librarians and music library staff - Christopher Seaman published Inside Conducting last year, and the first part is subtitled 'The Conductor's Mind'.  (Wouldn't we all like to get inside there?!)

Fergus Macleod, new International Fellow in Conducting

Introducing Fergus Macleod, the new International Fellow in Conducting at the Royal Conservatoire.  Here is his website:

http://www.fergusmacleod.com/

Conducting Competition

2012 Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition

Competition entry is open now
Online submission only.
Deadline: 16 March 2012

The Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition, created by Donatella Flick in 1990, aims to help a young conductor establish an international conducting career.
The winner of the competition is offered, in addition to an award of £15,000, the opportunity to become Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra for up to one year.

The next competition will be held in London on 28–30 September 2012, and is open to conductors under the age of 35 who are citizens of the 27 countries having full membership of the European Union.

Find out more here

NB This competition will also be listed on Whittaker's Awards, Grants, Prizes page.