Summer success for RNCM conductors
RNCM conducting students have had unprecedented success in major festivals, concerts, masterclasses and competitions this summer.
Agata Zając (pictured below), our outgoing Mills Williams Junior Fellow in Conducting who conducts Manchester Camerata and the RNCM Chamber Orchestra on Saturday 23 September, spent two months as a Conducting Fellow at the world famous Tanglewood Music Festival, working with the TMC Festival Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and their Music Director, Andris Nelsons.
Meanwhile, Miguel Sepúlveda (pictured below) had debuts with the two major orchestras in Portugal, the Gulbenkian and Porto Symphony Orchestras; Maria Camila Aristizabal took Second Prize, the Audience Prize, the Orchestra Prize, and an assistant position with Andrés Orozco-Estrada, in the First National Competition for conductors in her native Colombia; and Matteo dal Maso participated in the Järvi Academy Masterclass, working with Paavo, Neeme and Kristjan Järvi.
In Siena, at Accademia Chigiana, Josephine Korda participated in the famous Masterclass with Daniele Gatti, and is also a finalist in the upcoming Besançon Conducting Competition; Leon Frantzen-Malesani was in Canada, working with Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the Orchestre Métropolitain’s Conducting Academy, and will shortly take up the position of Resident Conductor with the Muscat Royal Philharmonic; Ann Miller and Philip Trudgeon become Directors of Music of the Band of HM Royal Marines Scotland, and the Band of HM Royal Marines Collingwood; Yi Wei has just started work as the Constant Lambert Fellow with the Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet; and Xinjie Yang will be the conductor of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group’s NEXT programme for 2023-24.
New Mills Williams Junior Fellow in Conducting
We also welcome Jakub Przybycień (pictured above) as the Mills Williams Junior Fellow in Conducting for 2023-24. Jakub was selected after 12 candidates were shortlisted from 120+ applications to undertake an intense five-round audition process at the RNCM. Originally a violinist, Jakub studied conducting in Wrocław and Zurich and will be an assistant conductor to Ludovic Morlot and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra next season. He reached the final three in the recent LSO Donatella Flick Conducting Competition and is a former winner of the Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Conducting Academy.
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19 September 2023
