Deutscher Dirigentenpreis

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

History of the prize

The German Conductors' Prize is awarded by the Deutscher Musikrat (in Bonn), which was launched in cooperation with the Kölner Philharmonie, the Cologne Opera, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and the WDR Symphony Orchestra.[1] As a cultural partner, the competition will be accompanied by the West German Radio's WDR 3 culture wave. The prize was first awarded in 1995 as the Prize of the Dirigentenforum to outstanding scholarship holders of the support programme. It will be awarded internationally for the first time in 2017 and is held every two years. A unique selling point is the inclusion of the genres of opera and concert in the repertoire. The competition will be open to the public from the second round onwards.[2]

Prize money

The prize is endowed with a total of 34,000 euros, making it one of the highest 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: 500 euros (donated by the Bärenreiter-Verlag)

The winners receive concert engagements and assistances at opera houses and German partner orchestras (Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Hof Symphony Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, Cologne Opera House, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and the WDR Symphony Orchestra).[3]

Jury
  • Peter Gülke, honorary chairman, conductor and musicologist
  • Lothar Zagrosek, chairman and conductor
  • Lioba Braun, Mezzo-soprano
  • Siegwald Bütow, Manager and Producer of the WDR Symphony Orchestra
  • Louwrens Langevoort, Director of the Cologne Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Birgit Meyer, Director of the Cologne Opera
  • Stephan Mösch, music and theatre scholar, publicist

Prize winners

Prizewinners of the German Conductors' Forum (1995–2015)

Winners of the German Conductors' Prize (from 2017)
  • 2017: Hossein Pishkar (1st prize winner)
    • Dominic Beikirch (2nd prize winner)
    • Anna Rakitina (3rd prize winner)
    • Vladimir Yaskorski (special prize winner)
  • 2019: Julio García Vico[4][5] (1st prize winner)
    • Gábor Hontvári (2nd prize winner)
    • Chloé van Soeterstède (3rd prize winner)

References
  1. "Wettbewerb". Dirigentenforum (in German). 30 September 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  2. Deutschlandfunk Musikjournal vom 2. Oktober 2017: Deutscher Dirigentenpreis in Köln. Taktstock-Allrounder gesucht und gefunden, von Bjørn Woll
  3. Nonnenmann, Rainer (16 October 2019). "Aus der Masse die Klasse heben". Kölner Stadtanzeiger (in German). Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  4. German Conducting Prize of 18 October 2019: Julio García Vico wins the German Conducting Prize 2019, called on 28 October 2019
  5. "Deutscher Dirigentenpreis". Gürzenich Orchester Köln (in German). Retrieved 4 December 2020.
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