First of all, we would like to express our gratuity to all conductors applied for the 6th Svtelanov Competition. We received around 350 applications from 54 countries.
This year, the level of the applicants is particularly high, therefore the choice proved to be extremely difficult.
Following a rigorous evaluation, we are pleased to announce the conductors who are invited to participate in the 6th Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition in Birmingham from 3 to 6 September 2026.
Sebastián Almánzar (Colombia), 31 y.o.
Miquel Bosch i Roca (Spain), 30 y.o.
Marco Crispo (Italy), 38 y.o.
Daichi Deguchi (Japan), 37 y.o.
Omar El Jamali (Morocco), 34 y.o.
Erika Kiko (Japan), 38 y.o.
Mauro Mariani (Italy), 32 y.o.
Mikhail Mering (Israel), 34 y.o.
Rui Miguel Marques (Portugal), 21 y.o.
Alison Norris (United States), 30 y.o.
Michal Oren (Israel), 29 y.o.
Silvina Peruglia (Argentina-Spain), 40 y.o.
Joonas Pitkänen (Finland), 39 y.o.
Daniel Reith (Germany), 34 y.o.
Matthew Rhodes (United Kingdom), 27 y.o.
José Soares (Brazil), 28 y.o.
Nikita Sorokine (France), 35 y.o.
Chunyi Zhao (China), 31 y.o.
Congratulations to the candidates!
We invite all Birmingham music lovers to experience the Svetlanov Competition at the Symphony Hall on 5 and 6 September 2026.
You can also watch the 6th Svetlanov Competition Live and on replay on medici.tv and our website svetlanov-evgeny.com