Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation MENTORING PROGRAM & MASTERCOURSES
ANNUAL REPORT 2021
ANNUAL REPORT 2021
Budapest, 14 February, 2022
Table of contents 1. Mentoring Program 2021 2. Masterclass with György Kurtág 3. European Creative Academy 4. Opera visit and rehearsals in Berlin 5. Masterclass with Georges Aperghis 6. Audition for the 2022 mentoring year 7. Mentee resumes 8. Annual financial report Photos: Andrea Felvégi, Bálint Hrtokó, Jázon Kovács, Gábor Valuska
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1. Mentoring Program 2021 How the pandemic has affected the program – again Our 2021 has been fully compromised by the pandemic – again which is unfortunately a common situation now with all cultural institutions. We tried to overcome all the obstacles and tried to maintain an artistic activity with partners, musicians, mentees. We had one full, in person masterclass as planned. All the other programs were shortened, made online or completely cancelled. We still not know how long it will last and when all the programs can be resumed as normal. For example we were planning a masterclass with Ars Nova Ensemble for March 2021 but it had to be cancelled for the second time and postponed to June 2022. The good thing is that we could reschedule this program so it can be organised at a later date. However we could not reschedule any of the cancelled mentoring concerts unfortunately as the partner orchestras were also suffering the covid difficulties so we have two mentoring concerts in the waiting: Mikel Urquiza and Rémi Durupt, Boon Hua Lien and Donghoon Shin. During this difficult year the foundation tried to stay present, share online tutorials, concerts of previous masterclasses and promote online events of the mentees and of professors Peter Eötvös and Gregory Vajda. Our professors also gave private classes online to the mentees whenever it was needed, before important concerts, projects or before a mentoring concert. We could have one mentoring concert and it was for Holly Hyun Choe with Danubia Orchestra Óbuda at Müpa – Palace of Arts Budapest with piano soloist József Balog and with a pieces by composer mentee Donghoon Shin. Both Peter Eötvös and Gregory Vajda attended the rehearsals several times and worked with Holly Hyun Choe on her concert program. We had limited audience in the hall but the concert has been a great experience, recorded also by Müpa. Our next project will happen in 2022 in April when conductor Joanna Slusarczyk and composer Leonardo Marino will have their mentoring concerts feat. Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2021 we established additional partnerships with Philharmonic Orchestra Győr and Savaria Orchestra, they will both host mentoring concerts in 2023. We continue our partnership with Danubia Orchestra and Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, too. Looking forward to give the chance of an orchestra concert to all of our mentees. We hope to be able to have kept our audience and our followers so when we can begin working as usual it will not take long to have talented participants to our
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masterclasses. We also experienced an increase in applications so it seems that young talents are eager to get back to work again but it is always a shame when we have to cancel a masterclass like the one with Ars Nova Ensemble which already had applicants, too. Fortunately our home, the Budapest Music Center stayed stable again in 2021 and they also provide us stability and constant support which can guarantee the continuation of our programs. We also find stability with the support of the National Cultural Fund and Liszt Festival / Müpa, these are our main and most important partners after the great support of Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne. Message from Holly Hyun Choe https://www.facebook.com/petereotvosfoundation/videos/422058569468307 Message from Mikel Urquiza: https://www.facebook.com/1382398765343622/videos/684995345712443 Message from Rémi Durupt: https://www.facebook.com/1382398765343622/videos/840787256657277 Message from Donghoon Shin: https://www.facebook.com/1382398765343622/videos/393880438479486 Message from Boon Hua Lien: https://www.facebook.com/1382398765343622/videos/2686327734950712
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2. Masterclass with György Kurtág / in person and online masterclass (hybride) Budapest Music Center celebrated György Kurtág's 95th birthday with a four-day online festival. The opening event was organized in cooperation with the Peter Eötvös Contemporary Music Foundation. The concert introduced the mentored composers and conductors participating in the Foundation's masterclass, while the professors, Peter Eötvös and Gregory Vajda also made an appeareance as conductors, celebrating the life and works of György Kurtág. The concert has been live streamed but unfortunately because of performance rights the recording is no longer available. Before the concert the foundation organised a masterclass 12-18 February 2021 around the program of the concert. This had to be restricted only to our conductor mentees, no other participants nor the composers mentees were allowed to join because of the ongoing pandemic. It has been really a miracle that we could host 3 singers from abroad in these cicumstanses. Our composer mentees could join the rehearsals online and also they could follow the concert online. The process has been very special as the professors and mentees worked and performed together. We had the privilege to be supervised by Maestro Kurtág who came to rehearsals several times and followed the concert live. Even if the conductions have been challenging, it has been an uplifting project which gave a lot of experience to the young conductors for the professional life. They could even follow the process of the preparations for a multi-camera livestream, without audience, so the BMC concert hall served as a television studio. They had to knew about the lights, camera men, all sorts of practicalities on top of the full knowledge of the very hard, challenging pieces.
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Program of the masterclass: Hankyeol Yoon: Hipab – Premiere Leonardo Marino: Previsioni del tempo – Premiere Ligeti György: Aventures Ligeti György: Nouvelles Aventures Kurtág György: ... pas à pas - nulle part ... Kurtág György: Four Poems by Anna Akhmatova Featuring: Andrea Jőrös – soprano Sarah Defrise – soprano (BE) Devi Suriani – alto (Indonesia) Daniel Nicholson – baritone (AUS) UMZE Ensemble (HU) Conductors: Péter Eötvös, Gergely Vajda, Martin Rajna, Jonas Bürgin Supporters: Ministry of Human Resources of Hungary, National Cultural Fund of Hungary, Goethe Institut Budapest, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne Short video of the masterclass: https://youtu.be/q7GVl7ehLBA Photos of the masterclass: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=petereotvosfoundation&set=a.2 476128379303983 Press links: https://index.hu/kultur/zene/2021/02/18/ingyenes-online-koncerttelkoszontik-a-95-eves-kurtag-gyorgyot/ https://magyarnemzet.hu/kultura/a-95-eves-kurtag-gyorgyot-fesztivallalkoszonti-a-bmc-9363560/ https://fidelio.hu/klasszikus/online-fesztivallal-koszonti-a-95-eves-kurtaggyorgyot-a-bmc-161629.html https://papageno.hu/intermezzo/2021/02/online-fesztivallal-koszonti-a-95eves-kurtag-gyorgyot-a-budapest-music-center/ https://444.hu/2021/02/19/online-fesztivallal-unneplik-a-95-eves-kurtaggyorgyot https://www.prae.hu/article/11970-kurtag-95-szollossy-100-a-koncertrol/ https://www.kisalfold.hu/kultura/hazai-kultura/online-fesztivallal-koszonti-a95-eves-kurtag-gyorgyot-a-bmc-10653583/ https://kulturpart.hu/2021/02/15/online_fesztivallal_koszontik_kurtag_gyorgy ot
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https://www.magyarszo.rs/hu/4537/kultura/236003/Onlinefesztiv%C3%A1llal-k%C3%B6sz%C3%B6ntik-Kurt%C3%A1gGy%C3%B6rgy%C3%B6t-Kurt%C3%A1g-Gy%C3%B6rgy-onlinefesztiv%C3%A1l-95-%C3%A9ves-zeneszerz%C5%91.htm https://www.televizio.sk/2021/02/online-fesztivallal-koszontik-a-95-eveskurtag-gyorgyot/ https://magyarzene.eu/kurtag-95-online/ https://www.travelo.hu/rendezveny/20210218-budapest-online-koncerttavmozi-david-bowie-pasztor-anna-kurtag95.html https://www.europejazz.net/news/kurt%C3%A1g-95-online-festival-feb-18-21 https://scherzo.es/un-festival-online-celebra-los-95-anos-del-compositorhungaro-gyorgy-kurtag/ https://arthereartnow.com/2021/02/18/kurtag-gyorgy-birthday-95-martalove-romance-music-online-broadcast/
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3. European Creative Academy, Annecy, France In August 2021 we began our 3 year partnership with European Creative Academy and Ars Nova Ensemble. The partnership idea started in 2019 when our program director, Gregory Vajda visited Annecy. We wanted to begin in 2020 but the pandemic got in the way and only online activity was possible. Even in these circumstances the musicians of Ars Nova Ensemble recorded a piece by our mentee composer Mikel Urquiza and we agreed to continue in 2021. The scheme is a joint workshop where our mentess can take part, the academy invites a living composer and Peter Eötvös, Gregory Vajda work as professors. At the end of each project a concert is organised within the frame of Impérial Festival Annecy which is a great summer event. In 2021 we had our mentee conductor Jonas Bürgin and mentee conductor Rémi Durupt there, pieces by Peter Eötvös to work on. As the Annecy workshop is also for composers, Peter Eötvös had private consultations with young composers there. Short video of the masterclass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CmzoVrqL2g Photos of the masterclass: https://www.facebook.com/petereotvosfoundation/photos/288426292515719 1 https://www.facebook.com/petereotvosfoundation/photos/288426289849052 7 https://www.facebook.com/petereotvosfoundation/photos/288426286515719 7
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4. Opera visit and rehearsals in Berlin / Sleepless by Peter Eötvös Sleepless, the new opera by Peter Eötvös has been premiered at Staatsoper Berlin and before the world premiere our mentees of 2021 could join the rehearsals and inbetween rehearsals they could work with Maestro Eötvös on other projects and conducting and composing skills. Our partners at Collegium Hungaricum Berlin have organised a talk about Sleeples at CHB Berlin and our mentees, Martin Rajna, Jonas Bürgin, Francisco Domínguez, Balázs Kecskés D. could take part to learn more about opera composing and performing, and they also had the opportunity to know more about these institution such as the Staatsoper Berlin and the Collegium Hungaricum. Post and photos of this short workshop: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10158539028241408&type=3 https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.308086/273524823_3003259636590852_4614070521471132286_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100 &ccb=15&_nc_sid=abc084&_nc_ohc=WhZwH56kAtAAX_iWUXc&_nc_ht=scontent-vie11.xx&oh=00_AT9A9uwv2Xkaov8QGXUELeZ1o4DmAKPGJBJ3iNpIo0SJ1A&oe=62 056021 Supporters: Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne
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5. Masterclass with Georges Aperghis / in person masterclass The foundation announced a workshop for conductors and composers focusing on chamber music between 4-9 October 2021, in Budapest (Hungary). Selected active conductors had the possibility to work on a double bass ensemble piece by Peter Eötvös and Migrants by Geroges Aperghis.
We were lucky to have been able to welcome Maestro Aperghis at Budapest Music Center – in person. There was a big interest towards the course but we had to fill the places with the young conductors who were selected as active conductors for the George Benjamin masterclass back in 2020 which became an online masterclass at the end. This is also a miracle that these young condutors have just waited one whole year to come to Budapest to learn contemporary music. We could also give a possiblity in plus for Joanna Slusarczyk, conductor mentee of 2020 to take part as covid cut short their mentoring period. As this workshop is part of the foundation’s mentoring program there were new chamber pieces written for the workshop by 2 mentored composers of the foundation. The workshop offered working sessions with Peter Eötvös, Georges Aperghis, Gregory Vajda and the two mentored composers: Francisco Domínguez and Balázs Kecskés D. During the first day all the participants were analysing the pieces, composers also got in person consultations with Georges Aperghis and Peter Eötvös. During
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rehearsals the mentees and active participants could work on each piece and also they had the possibility to work with great soloists. Peter Eötvös and Georges Aperghis were instructing them and preparing them for the closing concert which has been organised within the program of the newly established Liszt Festival by Müpa (Palace of Arts Budapest). The festival gave a great promotion opportunity to the young talents, a booklet was printed and the concert was features on all platforms of the festival. Program of the masterclass: R. Strauss: Serenade, Op. 7 Balázs Kecskés D: Wind – world premiere Péter Eötvös: Aurora – Hungarian premiere Francisco Domínguez: Kharir IV – world premiere Georges Aperghis: Migrants – Hungarian premiere Featuring: Viola Thurnay, Márta Murányi – voice, Matthew McDonald – double bass, Danubia Orchestra Óbuda Conductors: Joanna Natalia Ślusarczyk, Jonas Bürgin, and selected conductors of the masterclass Supporters: National Cultural Fund, Liszt Festival by Müpa, Budapest Music Center, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne
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Talk with Georges Aperghis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UIUAk9VxqU&t=14s Short videos of the masterclass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgJnfSe5HDU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faLJsfxNBQs Photos of the masterclass: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2927361354180681&type=3 https://www.facebook.com/petereotvosfoundation/photos/pcb.292066267485 0549/2920657251517758/ Press links: https://kulturpart.hu/2021/10/14/vilagsztarral_erosit_a_mesterkurzus https://librarius.hu/2021/10/06/osbemutatok-hazai-bemutatok-es-az-alapmuezzel-varnak-az-eotvos-alapitvany-regi-es-uj-generacioi/ https://operavilag.net/kaleidoszkop/liszt-unnep-oktoberben/ https://jo.444.hu/2021/10/12/liszt-dalok-menekultek-mozart-es-eloelektronika https://fidelio.hu/klasszikus/zeneszerzok-parbeszede-beszelgetes-georgesaperghisszel-166435.html
8. Audition for the 2022 mentoring year Overlapping mentoring years, additional programs We received a great number of applications for 2022 and it was also a great surprise given the special pandemic environment. These applications and interests came towards previous application processes and during the year as in 2020 we did not know how things will unfold with the pandemic and we were thinking that an official audition would mean we are certain of organising programs. Instead of the formal audition, the professors used every opportunity when we had the chance to organise a program to seek for great young talents and they have selected the new mentees via this process. Because of the pandemic we had to reduce the number of selected mentees what we hope to elevate to the original number if the pandemic allows us. Also the mentee years began to overlap because of the Covid situation so even this year we also welcomed mentees from previous years who could not finished their program and it will happen in 2022, too.
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As we had fewer in person program during the year, Peter Eötvös and Gregory Vajda consulted with our mentees via zoom or skype many times about their new projects, mentoring concerts, composing ideas and just about general question concerning their career. We think we stepped up the online presence to meet the needs of the mentees and to try to help them in many ways. Peter Eötvös and Gregory Vajda selected the following young talents for 2021: Martin Rajna, conductor, Hungary Jonas Bürgin, conductor, Switzerland Balázs D. Kecskés, composer, Hungary Francisco Dominguez, composer, Spain Peter Eötvös and Gregory Vajda selected the following young talents for 2022: Nicoló Forón, condctor, Italy Jonsung Oh, composer, South-Korea
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6. Mentee resumes Nicoló Forón / Mentoring concert in 2023/24 Just selected as principal assistant Conductor of Ensemble Intercontemporain, Paris - is 1st prize winner of the International Conducting Competition Jeunesse Musicales Bucharest 2021. Discovered at a young age, the young Italo-German conductor, pianist and composer has been praised for hisversatile concert programmes and efficient rehearsals. During the years of his artistic development, he has gathered extensive experience of a wide symphonic, operatic and contemporary repertoire. Nicolò Foron assisted Riccardo Muti for Le nozze di Figaro culminating in conducting the final concert at Ravenna. He conducted at the Opera Forward Festival, the Grachtenfestival, the National Opera and the Academy of Theater and Dance in Amsterdam. 2021 he made his debut with the North-Netherlands-Orchestra conducting the world premiere of Jan Peter de Graaff's cello concerto at the GroningenOosterpoort Zaal, Muziekgebouw-Amsterdam and Tivoli Vredenburg-Utrecht. The concert will be released on CD. He is selected by the Deutsche Dirigentenforum and the “ZEIT - Foundation” Gerd and Ebelin Bucerius from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. Jonsung Oh / Mentoring concert in 2023/24 Jongsung Oh was born 1987, in Seoul South Korea. He studied with Uzong CHOE at Seoul National University from 2011 to 2018 and he is studying as Master at University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar with Prof. Michael Obst from 2019. He served in Korea Army Band from 2014 to 2016. He attended masterclasses of Peter Eötvös, Unsuk Chin, York Höller, Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber. In 2017 he was chosen as an excellent student of Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra masterclass and participated in „Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra Reading Section” conducted by Pascal Rophé. In 2019, with his string quartet “Haydn for string quartet”, he won the 1st Prize of 7 th Molinari Quartet International Composition Compeition in Montréal, Canada and his piece “Haydn for String Quartet” was performed by Molinari Quartet in Montréal, Canada. He won also main prize of „4th Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition for Young Composers”. On the 10th, Apr., his piece “A Horny Faun’s Rampage” was performed by Orchestra Muzyki Nowej, (conducted by Szymon Bywalec) in „32nd International Festival of Composers” in Krakau, Poland. He won 2nd Prize of „22 nd International Composition Competition in Weimarer Spring Stage for contemporary Music Festival 2021“ and his piece “Rota Vitae for Sheng Solo” was performed by Wu Wei.
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Holly Hyun Choe / Mentoring concert completed in December 2021. Holly Hyun Choe is the Music Director of the Orchesterverein Wiedikon and the University of St. Gallen Alumni Symphony Orchestra (HSG ASO). She will be the new Assistant Conductor in the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich Season 20/21 and 21/22 under the guidance of Maestro Paavo Järvi. In September 2020, she made her debut at the Alte Oper Frankfurt with the Ensemble Reflektor and has been reinvited for future projects including a return to Frankfurt and a debut in the Elbphilharmonie Großer Saal in Hamburg this August 2021. This summer, she will be the Guest Conductor for the DAVOS Festival in Switzerland this summer. Future engagements include concerts with Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, Montenegro Symphony, Orquestra Clássica do Centro, Danubia Orchestra Óbuda, and Orchestre des amateurs des ateliers de la Philharmonie de Paris. As a guest conductor, she has worked with Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester and has given children's concerts with Musikkollegium Winterthur and Collegium Musicum Basel. She has assisted notable conductors such as Paavo Järvi in Orchestre de Paris, Leonard Slatkin in Orchestre national de Lyon, Simone Young in Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and Karina Canellakis in GürzenichOrchester Köln.
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Joanna Slusarczyk / Mentoring concert in April 2022. The winner of the Second Prize in the International Conducting Competition ”Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest” in Romania (August 2018). The winner of the Third Prize at the ”First European Union International Conducting Competition” in Sofia, Bulgaria (January 2018). In April 2018, she won the First Prize at the ”London Classical Soloists Conducting Competition” in London, Great Britain. She was also awarded a Special Mention at ”The BMW International Conducting Masterclass and Competition” in Portugal (April 2018). In July and August 2019 she participated at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana Festival in Siena, Italy, where she was chosen by maestro Daniele Gatti to conduct during the Final Concert and got the Main Prize of Rotary Club Siena. In the 2018-2019 season she was a Conductor-in-Residence at the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice, Poland. In April 2019 she got the Main Prize of the Krakow county for outstanding artistic achievements.
Leonardo Marino / Mentoring concert in April 2022. He is a sicilian composer, based in Milano. His formation comprehends both classical and jazz music experiences. He studied composition in Milano with Alessandro Solbiati and in Genève with Michael Jarrell. His music has been played and programmed by several ensembles, (Divertimento Ensemble, Mdi Ensemble, Ukho Ensemble, Ensemble Prometeo, Ensemble Contrechamps, IEMA, etc.), conductors, (Clement Power, Marco Angius, Luigi Gaggero, Gregory Vajda, Daniel Kawka, Lukas Vis, Filippo Perocco, Holly Hyun Choe, etc.) and soloists (Melanie Rothman, Dyna Pisarenko, Goska Isphording, Alfonso Alberti, Mariagrazia Bellocchio, Rachel Koblyakov, Viktor Rekalo, Tim Maas, Micheal Taylor, Laura
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Catrani, etc.). His chamber opera “APNEA” was premieried at the “61esimo Festival di Musica Contemporanea della Biennale di Venezia” in 2017. He has been chosen as one of the two mentored composers of the Mentoring Programme 2020, promoted by the Péter Eötvös Foundation. He has been appointed as one of the 15 resident of Operalab.ch (a platform created by the Grand Théâtre de Genève, la Comédie de Genève, and the schools of high specialization of the Suisse Romande) and he will compose a new Opera, “Huit Minutes - Nous y étions presque” that will be performed in September 2021 in Geneva. His music is published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni - SugarMusic S.p.A., Milano.
Martin Rajna / Mentoring concert in March 2023. He is one of the most outstanding young conductors in Hungary. Despite still only being in his mid-twenties, he is in demand with Hungary’s leading symphony orchestras. In the 2020/21 season, he will once again take up the invitation of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok, but he will also direct the orchestra of the Hungarian State Opera, the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda, the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Miskolc, the Zugló Philharmonic, the Szolnok Symphonic, and the Danube Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he will join several productions by the Hungarian State Opera – including their 2021 premier of Wagner’s Parsifal, in the capacity of coach and assistant
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composer, while he will conduct the performances of Erkel’s Bánk bán at the National Theatre in Győr. The previous season was particularly noteworthy for Rajna. In autumn 2019, he directed his first ever concerts in Germany when he appeared with the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester in Frankfurt (Oder) and Potsdam, an invitation which he will accept once again in 2022. That October he conducted the Raanana Symphonette chamber orchestra in the Jerusalem Theatre at the closing concert of Israel’s Hungarian Culture Year. November saw him back in his homeland for two debuts – first at the Grand Hall of the Academy of Music, where he directed the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, and then at Müpa Budapest, with the Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok. In February 2020, he conducted his first opera, Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, in Győr. Jonas Bürgin He is currently working on his Bachelor in Orchestral Conducting at the Zurich University of Arts (ZHdK) under Professor Johannes Schlaefli. At the Gstaad Menuhin Festival Conducting Academy 2020 he got awarded the “Neeme Järvi Förderpreis 2020” and he won the first price at the London Classical Soloist Competition 2017. Currently, Jonas Bürgin is the Chief Conductor of the soloist orchestra Junge Zürcher Harmoniker, which he founded in 2015. He further worked with orchestras such as the Göttinger Symphony Orchestra, argovia philharmonic, Swiss-Central Youth Symphony Orchestra, camerata AKSAdemica and the Youth Symphony Orchestras of Aargau and Zurich. As musical director he conducted 2018 the successful new production of Haydn’s opera “La Vera Costanza” at OpernHausen, Switzerland. Additionally, he is working as Assistant Conductor for some productions with the Bern Symphony Orchestra for the Season 2019/20.
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Balázs D. Kecskés / Mentoring concert in March 2023. The music of Balázs Kecskés D. can be characterized by both emotional depth and intellectual richness. His compositions are “pieces of art created with gentle colours, and carefully composed over time” (as per the laudation by Máté Hollós). He draws from the historical traditions of the past centuries, while creating his own, unique world by placing elements with a long history – forms and harmonies – into a new context. As Jeanette Fang described his piano quartet titled Accusativus: “Balázs creates mesmerizing moments of suspended beauty, with an ear for stillness and reverie that makes one think of Debussy”. As a lecturer at the Composition Department of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Kecskés D. considers teaching and musical history research his vocation, besides composing being his primary activity. His repertoire includes a wide range of works such as solo and chamber music, orchestral compositions, concertos, in addition to vocal works. He composes for chamber ensembles with a long tradition (piano quartet, piano trio), and for choirs. His compositions containing lyrics often cover sacral topics, and draw on philosophical writings. His oratorio for string quartet and four voices titled Komm is based on the texts of Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet, Paul Thymich, and T. S. Eliot. This work evokes the chorales of Bach while also highlights current, burning questions of our times. Francisco Dominguez / Mentoring concert in 2023/24 He studied composition with Gabriel Erkoreka at Musikene (Spain), where he finished his Bachelor degree with an honorific mention. Afterwards he continued his studies with Beat Furrer and Klaus Lang at the Kunstuniversität Graz (Austria), where he finished his studies with an honorific mention. He also had classes and masterclasses with Helmut Lachenmann, Ramon Lazkano, Hèctor Parra, Alberto Posadas and Rebecca Saunders, among others. He has been awarded numerous prestigious international prizes, including the first prize at the competitions “Pablo Sorozabal” (XV edition) and “Francisco Escudero “ (VII and IX editions) and honourable mentions at the “Franz Schubert” competition (X edition) and the “Composition Competition for Young Composers of SGAE Foundation” (XXVI edition). His music has been performed in numerous prestigious festivals such as BBVA, IMPULS and the Juan March Foundation. In addition, he has worked with renown performers such as Iñaki Alberdi, Michael Faust, Henri Bok, L’Instant Donné, THReNSeMBLe, Schallfeld Ensemble, the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra and the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra.
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Boon Hua Lien / Mentoring concert in 2023, Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra He is a young conductor from Singapore and a prizewinner of numerous competitions, most recently at the 2018 Antal Dorati International Conducting Competition. He is currently featured as one of two conductors on the 2019/20 Peter Eötvös Foundation Mentoring Program and also leads OpusNovus, the contemporary music ensemble at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore. Lien was the Assistant Conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice from 2016 to 2018 and served as Assistant Conductor to the Richard-Strauss-Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2018. He has assisted conductors such as Alexander Liebreich, Lawrence Foster, Giancarlo Guerrero, Manfred Honeck, Cristian Măcelaru, Leonard Slatkin and Yan Pascal Tortelier. He will conduct his mentoring concert feat. Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra in 2023 at Kodály Központ at Pécs. Donghoon Shin / Mentoring concert in 2023, Pannon Philhamronic Orchestra Donghoon Shin studied composition at Seoul National University with Sukhi Kang and Uzong Choe, and with Julian Anderson at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is now pursuing a PhD in Composition under the supervision of Sir George Benjamin at the King’s College London. Unsuk Chin has been an influential mentor and supporter for Donghoon for over a decade. He also attended masterclasses of Tristan Murail, York Höller, Pascal Dusapin and Johannes Schöllhorn. Donghoon Shin is a laureate of Ricordilab 2019 and his music is exclusively published by Ricordi Berlin. His new violin concerto will be premiered in 2023 by Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra in Pécs with violinist Kristóf Baráti.
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Rémi Durupt / Mentoring concert 10 MArch 2023 Savaria Symphonie Orchestra, Szombathely He is musical director of ensemble Links and perform in many famous scenes in France and Europe (Philharmonie of Paris, Arsenal of Metz, Le Havre, Rouen, Dunkerque, Perpignan, Days Off Paris, Folle Journée de Nantes, Festival de La Meije, Nuits Sonores of Lyon, Les Detours de Babel of Grenoble, Festival Marathon of Paris). He conducted as well Ensemble Linea, Umze, Dedalo, Impronta, Orchestre Symphonique and Lyrique of Paris. He conducted many orchestral sessions in Budapest and assisted Peter Eötvös at ConcertGebouw and Berliner Philharmoniker. 2020 will take him on lyrical stage at Angers-Nantes and Rennes Opera house with Les Noces (Stravinsky) in ballet version (chorégraphy
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by Angelin Preljocaj and premiere by Aurélien Richard) and also at Tête-à-tête London Festival for the opera premiere by Philip Grange with ensemble Constella Opera Ballet. Supported and advised by Enno Poppe (Ensemble Modern Academy), he took conducting courses with Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Laurent Gay, William Blank, Nicolas Brochot and Laurent Gossaert in Strasbourg, Geneva and Evry. He won Bettinelli’s prize at Dedalo Ensemble Academy of Vittorio Parisi in Brescia. Mikel Urquiza / Mentoring concert 10 MArch 2023 Savaria Symphonie Orchestra, Szombathely Mikel Urquiza (1988, Bilbao) studies composition at Musikene (San Sebastian) with Gabriel Erkoreka and Ramon Lazkano and at the Paris CNSM with Gérard Pesson. He receives the young composer commission of the Spanish Institute for Scene Arts and Music. In 2019-2020 he is a fellow of the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici. His music is played in festivals such as Quincena Musical de San Sebastian, MATA New York, Musikprotokoll Graz, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, ECLAT, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, or the Lucerne Festival. His new percussion concerto will be premiered by Savaria Orchestra in Szombathely, Hungary with percussionist Dániel Janca.
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