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We are happy to welcome you for the Final Round of the 5th Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition!
The first finalist: Euan Shilds (USA), 23 years old
Evgeny Svetlanov – Images of Spain, rhapsody n°1
René Koering – « Initiales ES »
Claude Debussy – La Mer
Bravo Euan Shields for a great tribute to Evgeny Svetlanov with his beautiful work « Images of Spain »
A commissionned work by René Koering is also a tribute to Maestro Svetlanov « Initiales ES ». The candidates receive the score 1h30 before their appearance on stage.
Good!!
Euan Shields is the youngest finalist in the history of the competition!
Euan Shields completed his Bachelor in Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music (Los Angeles) where he studied cello with Antonio Lysy and orchestral conducting with Neal Stulberg. He is pursuing a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting at the Juilliard School (New York) under the guidance of David Robertson.
The second finalist – Henri Christofer Aavik from Estonia
Evgeny Svetlanov – Images of Spain, rhapsody n°1
René Koering – « Initiales ES »
Igor Stravinsky – Firebird, suite n°3 (1945)
Competitors are choosing three pieces from the list that is being proposed by the competition. A day before the finalists the work that they are going to perform are being announced by the jury. For Euan it’s Debussy’s La Mer, for Henry it will be Stravinsky’s Firebird.
Henry has just finished performing Evgeny Svetlanov’s Rhapsody Number 1 « Images of Spain ». Since the very first competition composition by Svetlanov is always the necessary part of the final round’s repertoire.
Henri Christofer started conducting at the age of 14. He attended Jorma Panula’s Youth Conducting Classes at the Sibelius Academy in Finland and since 2015, he has studied at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (Germany) in the class of Nicolás Pasquet and Ekhart Wycik. In 2019, he studied as an exchange student at the Zurich University
of the Arts (Switzerland) with Johannes Schlaefli.
Henry’s being chosen to perform the iconic Firebird by Igor Stravinsky.
The third finalist is Ilya Ram!
He’s performing Svetlanov and Koering as well as the other candidates!
He has a Bachelor of Arts in Orchestral Conducting and Musicology from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel-Aviv, and a Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Hochschule für Musik “Carl Maria von Weber” in Dresden
Ilya’s working on the René Koering’s specially commissioned work ‘Initiales E.S ». He had one hour 30 minutes to look at it before going on the stage (this is the rule of the competition, when the contemporary piece is being learned on the spot). E.S stands for Evgeny Svetlanov, of whom Koering was a close friend for many years.
The last piece, that Ilya’s being chosen to perform is the magical « Tod und Verklärung » by Richard Strauss.
Interesting fact is that Ilya is not only a conductor, he dedicates much of his time to humanitarian activities with children and defending human rights.
Jesko Sirvend is up on stage now!
Jesco attracted international attention with his participation in the Nikolai Malko Competition for Young Conductors of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen. there he won Fifth Prize in 2012 and then both Third Prize and Audience Award in 2015.
Jesco is finishing his performance with the 2nd symphony by Robert Schumann.
For three years Jesco was a chief assistant conductor of the Orchestre National de France
In recent years Jesko Sirvend conducted among others the Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz and Staatsphilharmonie Rheinlfand Pfalz (Germany), Bern Symphonieorchester (Switzerland), Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra (Croatia) and Tonkünstler Orchestra (Austria).