2nd Round - L'OCG
Conducting Competition 2025-2026
Su 02 - Mo 03 November 2025
14:00 / 19:00, Auditorium Ansermet
Programme
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
SESSION 1 – SUNDAY 2 NOVEMBER, 14:00
- Simon Schmied, 30 years old
- Leonard Weiss, 32 years old
- Gabriel Pernet, 26 years old
SESSION 2 – SUNDAY 2 NOVEMBER, 19:00
- Julia Cruz Carceller, 28 years old
- Jacobus De Jager, 28 years old
- Nathanaël Iselin, 32 years old
SESSION 3 – MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER, 14:00
- Josephine Korda, 29 years old
- Yu-Te Wu, 30 years old
- Giovanni Fanizza, 29 years old
SESSION 4 – MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER, 19:00
- Mats Thiersch, 22 years old
- Alejandro Cantalapiedra, 31 years old
- Michal Oren, 28 years old
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Sessions at 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
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Ansermet Auditorium
2 Passage Marie-Claude Leburgue
1205 Geneva
