Jaehyuck Choi
Conducting Candidate 2025
Biography
Place of Birth
Seoul (KR)
Place of Residence
New York (US)
Studies
- Mannes School of Music (US), Prof. David Hayes
- Barenboim-Said Akademie (DE), Prof. Jörg Widmann
- The Juilliard School (US), Profs. Samuel Adler, Matthias Pintscher
Prizes
- Concours de Genève 2017 (CH), 1st Prize Composition
- The Bucharest Conducting Competition 2024 (RO), 3rd Prize
- Llíria International Conducting Competition 2025 (ES), 1st Prize
Highlights
- London Symphony Orchestra (UK) / Lucerne Festival (CH), Step-in Conductor, 2018
- Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich (CH), Conducting Fellow, 2022-2023
- Verbier Festival Orchestra (CH), Conducting Fellow, 2023
- ensemble blank (KR), Artistic Director, 2015-Present
COMPETITION PROGRAMME
First Round - Haute École de Musique de Genève Orchestra
- L.v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 2
- F. Schubert: Symphony No. 5
Second Round - Orchestre de Chambre de Genève
- I. Stravinsky: Danses concertantes
- P.I. Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
- R. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Semi-Final 1 - Orchestre de Chambre de Genève
- G. Bizet: Symphony in C
- L. Farrenc: Symphony No. 3
- F. Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 « Scottish »
Semi-Final 2 - Ensemble Contrechamps
- Ligeti: Kammerkonzert
- R. Saunders: Scar
Semi-Final 3 - Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
- C. Debussy: La Mer
- R. Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 (1st movement)
- R. Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129 (1st movement)
Final Round 1 - Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
- 3 finalist works from the Composition Competition
Final Round 2 - Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
- B. Bartók : Suite du mandarin merveilleux
- G. Mahler: Totenfeier
Events
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, 25 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