Only Stage Conducting Competition winners announced

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

The competition, which launched in January, is a collaboration between Only Stage Management Company and Classics Management Budapest.

Winner Vlad Vizireanu
Winner Vlad Vizireanu
The winners of the first edition of the Only Stage International Conducting Competition have been announced. They are:
  • 1st prize – Vlad Vizireanu, Romania 
  • 2nd prize – Yu-Kuang Jin, China 
  • 3rd prize – Hermes Helfricht, Germany 
  • Special prize – Alejandra Urrutia
  • Special prize – Anton Torbeev 
The competition was open throughout spring to musicians of any nationality and any age. 

The jury included Andrea Amarante, artistic director at Luzerner Sinfonieorchester; John Axelrod, conductor; Oleg Caetani, conductor; Zvonimir Hacko, conductor and artistic director at Oregon Music Festival, USA; Michael Rosewell, director of Opera at the Royal College of Music, and others.

More information can be found here