Rémi Durupt
Conducting Jury 2025
Biography
Rémi Durupt is a French conductor who has forged a unique artistic path, open to original artistic collaborations that break down barriers between different styles and concert formats. As Associate Conductor of the Peter Eötvös Foundation and with a passion for repertoire and creation, which he sees as inextricably linked, he conducts prestigious orchestras and ensembles in France and internationally, garnering increasing recognition in the musical world. He has won several international conducting and percussion competitions, including those in Geneva, Brescia and Budapest.
August 2025 - Full biography on remidurupt.com/
Events
During the second round of the Conducting Competition, the 12 selected candidates will be leading the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève. Each candidate will have 45 minutes to run through an excerpt from Stravinsky’s Danses concertantes and work on excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings and Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, selected by random draw:
Ballot 1
Stravinsky: I. Marche-Introduction + II. Pas d’Action
Wagner: Bar 116 to bar 295
Tchaikovsky: II. Valse + IV. Finale
Ballot 2
Stravinsky: III. Thème varié
Wagner: Beginning to bar 181
Tchaikovsky - II. Valse + I. Pezzo
Ballot 3
Stravinsky: IV. Pas de Deux + V. Marche-Conclusion
Wagner: Bar 243 to the end
Tchaikovsky: II. Valse + III. Elegie
Open to the public
Sessions at 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
——
Ansermet Auditorium
2 Passage Marie-Claude Leburgue
1205 Geneva
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
——
Open to the public
Sessions at 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
——
Auditorium Ansermet
Passage Marie-Claude Leburgue 2
1205 Genève