6th Edition 2015 – BUCHAREST COMPETITION

6^th edition, 2015

22-26 September 2015

6^th International Conducting Competition

Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest

STATUTE

This project represents the implementing in Romania, by ELITE ART Club UNESCO (in its capacity as sole Romanian representative of Jeunesses Musicales International http://jmi.net/), of the conducting competition initiated by Jeunesses Musicales International, one of the most renowned and appreciated classical music competitions for young people in the world, with a history of over 50 years.

The aim of the International Conducting Competition Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest is to create opportunities for young musicians from all over the world in order to increase their participation in the European institutions of creation. As such, the performance opportunities offered by the International Conducting Competition Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest will promote not only music and young talents but will naturally lead to a significant circulation of the artistic works and cultural products.

In addition to its main goal, the competition wishes to stimulate mutual interaction and create a real dialogue between the young musicians which will permit them to learn from one another, to discover not only their own abilities but also facts about their socio-cultural past thus promoting intercultural dialogue.

The general objective of the International Conducting Competition Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest is to ensure transborder collaboration among young people: through the competition’s program and all the included events we wish to create a meeting and interpretation space with as many participants as possible, from different environments thus leading to awareness regarding cultural diversity and strengthening the intercultural dialogue.

FINAL ROUND – 26th of september 2015

Surname/Nume

Name/Prenume

Country/Tara

Park

June-Sung

South Koreea

Programme	Ora/Time
P.I. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4, op. 36 – 1st movement S. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2, op.18 – 1st movement	10:00 – 10:45

Simakov

Sergey

Russia

Programme	Ora/Time
A. Dvorak: Symphony no. 7, op. 70 – 1st movement R. Schumann: Piano Concerto, Op. 54 – 1st movement	10:45 – 11:30

Break / Pauza

Wada

Kazuki

Japan

Programme	Ora/Time
J. Brahms: Symphony no. 3, op. 90 – 1st movement F. Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, op. 21 – 1st movement	12:00 – 12:45

List of participants qualified for the THIRD ROUND

Surname	Name	Age	Country	Result
Casleanu	Christian	25	Germany	Not accepted
Gooran	Arash	26	Iran	Not accepted
Kozakiewicz	Krzysztof Jakub	27	Poland	Not accepted
Lavrik	Vladislav	34	Russia	Accepted
Liao	Yuan-Hung	23	Taiwan	Not accepted
Mann	Jonathan William	30	United Kingdom	Accepted
Mildenberger	Felix	25	Germany	Accepted
Ota	Masane	30	Japan	Not accepted
Park	June-Sung	33	South Korea	Accepted
Polz	Erich	30	Austria	Accepted
Rakitina	Anna	26	Russia	Accepted
Shimizu	Yuta	33	Japan	Not accepted
Silkin	Vsevolod	30	Russia	Accepted
Simakov	Sergey	30	Russia	Accepted
Slusarczyk	Joanna Natalia	30	Poland	Not accepted
Starybrat	Klemens	25	Poland	Not accepted
Takai	Yuki	30	Japan	Not accepted
Vizireanu	Vlad	29	Romania	Accepted
Wada	Kazuki	34	Japan	Accepted
Xie	Jiang	29	China	Accepted
Yang	Su-Han	26	Taiwan	Accepted

List of participants qualified for the SECOND ROUND

Surname	Name	Age	Country	Result
Akimov	Sergey	26	Russia	Not accepted
Betyrkhanuly	Berik	25	Kazakhstan	Not accepted
Beck	Ingmar	28	Germany	Not accepted
Berney	Guillaume Pascal	30	Switzerland	Not accepted
Brown	Brandon Keith	34	USA	Not accepted
Casleanu	Christian	25	Germany	Accepted
Cha	Woong	31	South Koreea	Not accepted
Chiang	Chen-Hao	25	Taiwan	Not accepted
Gooran	Arash	26	Iran	Accepted
Holzinger	David	31	Austria	Not accepted
Hong	Joshua Ping	25	USA	Not accepted
Huang	Szu-Wei	30	Taiwan	Not accepted
Ilie	Alexandru – Mihai	27	Romania	Not accepted
Komanek	Ales	32	Czech Republic	Not accepted
Korolev	Grigory	24	Russia	Not accepted
Kozakiewicz	Krzysztof Jakub	27	Poland	Accepted
Lavrik	Vladislav	34	Russia	Accepted
Liao	Yuan-Hung	23	Taiwan	Accepted
Lin	Chih-Chiang	34	Taiwan	Not accepted
Mann	Jonathan William	30	United Kingdom	Accepted
Mildenberger	Felix	25	Germany	Accepted
Molard	David	26	France	Not accepted
Monreal	Alonso	29	Spain	Not accepted
Osorio	Santiago	24	USA	Not accepted
Ostapovych	Ivan	27	Ukraine	Not accepted
Ota	Masane	30	Japan	Accepted
Park	June-Sung	33	South Korea	Accepted
Peyregne	Matthieu	33	France	Not accepted
Polz	Erich	30	Austria	Accepted
Rakitina	Anna	26	Russia	Accepted
Rompczyk	Jakub	24	Poland	Not accepted
Ruffino	Daniele	28	Italy	Not accepted
Shimizu	Yuta	33	Japan	Accepted
Silkin	Vsevolod	30	Russia	Accepted
Simakov	Sergey	30	Russia	Accepted
Sit	Ngai Cheung	26	Hong Kong	Not accepted
Slusarczyk	Joanna Natalia	30	Poland	Accepted
Starybrat	Klemens	25	Poland	Accepted
Sumila	Ricardas	30	Lithuania	Not accepted
Sushchenko	Elizaveta	29	Russia	Not accepted
Suzuki	Hitoshi	27	Japan	Not accepted
Takai	Yuki	30	Japan	Accepted
Tartanis	Ektoras	28	Greece	Not accepted
Vazquez	Jorge	26	Mexico	Not accepted
Vizireanu	Vlad	29	Romania	Accepted
Wada	Kazuki	34	Japan	Accepted
Wroniszewski	Marek	33	Poland	Not accepted
Xie	Jiang	29	China	Accepted
Yang	Su-Han	26	Taiwan	Accepted
Yeh	Cheng-Te	28	Taiwan	Not accepted

Sergey Simakov, Russia

1st Prize

Sergey Simakov is one of the most distinguished Russian conductors of his generation. In 2015, he was awarded the 1st prize at the International Conducting Competition Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest. He also worked as Assistant Conductor for the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Daniel Raiskin and the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz (Season 2012-2013). In 2016, Sergey Simakov worked as Music Director and Conductor at the „Oper Oder-Spree“ festival in a production of Händel’s „Orlando“ and conducted concerts during the Bucharest Music Film Festival. Sergey Simakov is founder and Artistic Director of „Giraud Ensemble Zurich“.

He conducted concerts with the following orchestras and ensembles: Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Nord Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philarmonique de Strasbourg, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Brandenburgischen Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Neubrandenburger Philharmonie, Württembergischen Philharmonie Reutlingen, Musikalische Komödie Leipzig, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra Bukarest, Ensemble Resonanz Hamburg and others. Since 2012 Sergey Simakov has been scholarship holder of the German „Dirigentenforum“.

Kazuki Wada, Japan

2nd Prize

Kazuki Wada is an exceptional young conductor from Japan. In 2015 he won the Second Prize at the International Conducting Competition Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest. Born in 1981, he is presently studying under the guidance of Maestro Daisuke Soga at the Tokyo New City Orchestra. In 2013, he was appointed as the primary conductor of the Toshima-ku Orchestra, and in the same year he conducted over 10 concerts, the most prestigious of them being with the Japanese Traditional Instrumental Orchestra “KOU”. Kazuki’s academic achievements play an important role in his professional development. In 2004 he received a Bachelor Degree in Music Composition from the Shobi University, where he studied under Prof. Koichi Sakata. He continued his studies under the guidance of Professors Koichi Sakata (composition) and Ikuo Saito (conductor). He participated in numerous courses and masterclasses with distinguished academic figures such as Ken-ichiro Kobayashi, Tadaaki Otaka (Primary Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra), Moshe Atzmon (Honorary Conductor of the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra), Michiyoshi Inoue, Jun-ichi Hirokami, Yasuhiko Shiozawa and Daisuke Soga. In 2010 he received a Bachelor of Music in orchestra conducting at the Tokyo College of Music and in the same year he was appointed as the primary conductor at the Mitsui-Sumitomo Insurance Orchestra, Sagamihara Philharmonic Orchestra and Arte Chamber Orchestra.

In 2015, the same year he participated in the competition, he conducted over 20 concerts, among which were the concert at Suntory Hall with Hitomi Niikura and the Mitsui-Sumitomo Insurance Orchestra and at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater.

June-Sung Park, South Koreea

3rd prize

June-Sung Park was born in 1982 in Seoul, South Korea. He is the first prize winner of the Aram Khachaturian International Conducting Competition 2016 in Yerevan, Armenia. In this competition, June-Sung Park also won the three special prizes, “Orchestra Award” that went to who gained a majority of votes of musicians in the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, “The interpretation Prize”, “Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra Special Prize”.

In 2015, June-Sung Park won the third prize at the 6th International Conducting Competition Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest. In 2015 he participated in Paavo Järvi’s Masterclass at the Pärnu Music Festival 2015 and his performance in the Masterclass’s Gala Concert was described as “outstanding” in the english arts journal “The Arts Desk”. In 2013 he was selected as one of 6 young conductors for Myung-Whun Chung’s Masterclass with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. He has taken part several times in South Korea’s Incheon Music Festival, continuing his studies there under Myung-Whun Chung.

In 2016 he assisted Julien Salemkour in a production of Ludwig van Beethoven “Fidelio” with Expat Philharmonic Orchestra and in recording R.Wagner Tristan & Isolde with R.Wagner Tristan & Isolde in Germany. He was also Assistant Conductor of Daegu International Opera Festival 2014 in South Korea. He assisted David Cowan and Klaus Sallmann on the projects of Georges Bizet “Les pêcheurs de perles” and Giacomo Puccini “Turandot”. Plans for 2016/17 seasons include engagements with Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra as guest conductor in October in Lithuania and with State Youth Orchestra of Armenia as guest conductor in Armenia. He will conduct Gwangju Symphony Orchestra in December in South Korea.

Vlad Vizireanu, Romania

Best Ranked Romanian Participant

He was invited among 14 conductors (out of 400 applicants worldwide) to participate in the renowned Mahler Conducting Competition with the Bamberg Symphony. He won Second Prize in the 11th International Cadaqués Conducting Competition where he conducted the Cadaqués Symphony in an internationally televised concert in L’Auditori Hall, Barcelona.

He studied with David Zinman at the 2016 Tonhalle Orchestra Masterclass, with the late Kurt Masur at the 2015 Manhattan School of Music Conducting Seminar, and was selected for two consecutive years as one of seven conductors from around the world to study with Bernard Haitink at the 2013 and 2014 Lucerne Easter Festivals. Vizireanu was one of the last students of the late Lorin Maazel under full fellowship at the 2014 Castleton Festival. He also received the prestigious 2013 Chautauqua Conducting Fellowship in New York.

In Fall 2013 he was invited to debut at the renowned George Enescu Festival in Bucharest where he conducted a side-by-side concert with members of the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Royal Camerata. He conducted the Royal Camerata again in the 2015 edition of the George Enescu Festival with sololist Rebekka Hartmann. He has since made his debuts with the Iasi Philharmonic, Sibiu Philharmonic, Constanta Symphony, Translyvania Philharmonic, and New Valley Symphony.

An ardent advocate of new music, Vizireanu has showcased new compositions with the Castleton Festival Orchestra, Cadaqués Symphony, and Hebrides New Music Ensemble. Some new works he has recently recorded include Light Show by Max Grafe, Scherzo for Orchestra by Joshua Groffman, and Evelyne Davis’ Concerto for Two Percussionists. He recently commissioned several new compositions by renowned Los Angeles composer Michael Glenn Williams and conducted the world premieres with the Arizona Pro Arte Ensemble and Sibiu Philharmonic.

Vizireanu made his operatic debut in 2013 with Arizona State University Opera and Die Fledermaus. He served as assistant conductor to Lorin Maazel and Timothy Muffitt with productions of Les Dialogues des Carmelites, Madama Butterfly, and Don Giovanni.

Vizireanu currently serves as Music Director of the North Shore Symphony Orchestra in Long Island, NY and Assistant Conductor for the Thousand Oaks Philharmonic in Thousand Oaks, CA. He previously served as Conductor for New West Symphony’s Harmony Project, which is aimed at inspiring young children to develop a lifelong love of music through education and exciting musical experiences. He also serves as Artistic Director of Enescu & The Americas, an organization that fosters cultural exchange between Romania and the United States through the music of Romania’s greatest composer, George Enescu.

Jonathan Mann, UK

PRIZE OF THE GEORGE ENESCU PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Jonathan Mann is one of Wales’ most exciting musicians. He has conducted extensively internationally and has broadcast on television and radio. Prize winner at the Jeunesses Musicales International Conducting Competition 2015 in Bucharest, he received the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra prize and an invitation to make his Polish conducting debut.

As founder and Music Director of the Cardiff Sinfonietta he has overseen the orchestra’s expansion over a 11 year period. The orchestra has broadcast for the BBC and S4C and have collaborated with artists such as Nicola Benedetti, Benjamin Grosvenor, Julia Lezhvena, Sunwook Kim and Dennis O’Neill.

A keen interest in contemporary music Jonathan has conducted two BBC National Orchestra of Wales, ‘Composers of Wales’ concerts with his mentor Jac Van Steen, premiered five new operas with the Size Zero Opera Company in London and Singapore and collaborated closely with composers Diana Burrell, Peter Maxwell Davies and Mark-Anthony Turnage. He also conducted the London Sinfonietta in masterclasses with Pierre Andre Valade.

Passionate about inspiring young musicians, Jonathan Mann has worked in Europe and most recently throughout Asia at numerous youth orchestra festivals. He has a close association with AMIS Music Educators and has worked as clinician for music festivals including Hong Kong International School, Singapore American School and International School of Bangkok.

Since 2014 Jonathan has become increasingly involved in working with young orchestral musicians from the Bangkok, Thailand slums. The Music for Life Project set up by Immanuel Music School in Bangkok is similar to that of the renowned Venezuelan music programme El Sistema. Jonathan is honoured to be the Artistic Director of Music for Life. He visits the school several times a year to conduct concerts and mentor the students.

Jonathan Mann studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His conducting mentors are Colin Metters, George Hurst, Jac Van Steen and Bernard Haitink with whom he worked with at the Lucerne Easter Festival.

Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest, 2015

6th edition, 2015

6th International Conducting Competition Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest