1st Round - HEM Orchestra
Conducting Competition 2025-2026
Fri 31 Oct. - Sa 01 November 2025
14:00 / 19:00, Auditorium Ansermet
Programme
During this first round of the Conducting Competition, the 24 candidates will each have 25 minutes of public rehearsal with the Orchestre de la Haute école de musique de Genève to work on or run through excerpts from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 and Schubert’s Symphony No. 5, drawn by lot at the beginning of the round.
Ballot n°1
Beethoven – Symphony n°2, 1st movement (Adagio molto – Allegro con brio)
Schubert – Symphony n°5, 3rd movement (Menuetto: Allegro molto)
Ballot n°2
Beethoven – Symphony n°2, 2nd movement (Larghetto)
Schubert – Symphony n°5, 4th movement (Allegro vivace)
Ballot n°3
Beethoven – Symphony n°2, 3rd movement (Scherzo: Allegro)
Schubert – Symphony n°5, 1st movement (Allegro)
Ballot n°4
Beethoven – Symphony n°2, 4th movement (Allegro molto)
Schubert – Symphony n°5, 2nd movement (Andante con moto)
SESSION 1 – FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER, 14:00
- Lars Corijn, 29 years old
- Celia Llácer, 31 years old
- Moyue Zhou, 29 years old
- Simon Schmied, 30 years old
- Leonard Weiss, 32 years old
- Jaehyuck Choi, 30 years old
SESSION 2 – FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER, 19:00
- Zofia Kiniorska, 28 years old
- Gabriel Pernet, 26 years old
- Chao Dong, 27 years old
- Jooyoung Chang, 27 years old
- Julia Cruz Carceller, 28 years old
- Sunny Xuecong Xia, 29 years old
SESSION 3 – SATURDAY 1st NOVEMBER, 14:00
- Jacobus De Jager, 28 years old
- Nicolò Azzena, 32 years old
- Guro Ansteensen Haugli, 31 years old
- Nathanaël Iselin, 32 years old
- Josephine Korda, 29 years old
- Zhongling Fang, 28 years old
SESSION 4 – SATURDAY 1st NOVEMBER, 19:00
- Ondrej Soukup, 30 years old
- Yu-Te Wu, 30 years old
- Giovanni Fanizza, 29 years old
- Mats Thiersch, 22 years old
- Alejandro Cantalapiedra, 31 years old
- Michal Oren, 28 years old
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Open to the public
Sessions at 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
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Auditorium Ansermet
Passage Marie-Claude Leburgue 2
1205 Genève
Conducting Candidates 2025-2026
