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2008 COMPETITION PRESS RELEASE

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The 2006 Competition was won by Michal Dworzynski.
The announcement was made in London's Barbican Hall on
19 October 2006, at the end of the competition's final concert.

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Michal Dworzynski press cuttings:

Gramophone May 2007
('One to Watch' feature on Michal Dworzynski)
 
Reviews

LSO/Dworzynski 11 October 2007

Prospect blog 19 October 2007
Guardian 13 October 2007
Classical Source 11 October 2007

LPO/Dworzynski 13 January 2008

Independent 18 January 2008
(Reader-written review of concert in Eastbourne)


The winners of the competition go on to have rich and diverse professional careers.
Listed below are the conducting engagements of our recent winners.

 

MICHAL DWORZYNSKI
Winner of the 2006 Donatella Flick Conducting Competition

Conducting engagements:

September 2007
Prom in the Park (Middlesbrough) as part of the BBC Promenade Concerts. Live on TV and radio (extracts)
Shadowing Sir Colin Davis with the LSO on tour in Luzern and Bucharest, Romania.
Beethoven Academy, Cracow, Poland. (+TV).
LSO rehearsals, concert, recording (standby) at the Barbican.

October 2007
Beethoven Academy, Cracow.

November 2007
Sinfonia Varsovia, Warsaw.
LSO Schools concert at the Barbican.

December 2007
Wiener Kammer Orchester in Vienna.

January 2008
Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra.
LPO in Brighton.
LPO in Eastbourne.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Ayr, Scotland.

February 2008
Concert in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

March 2008
Beethoven Easter Festival in Poland.
LSO Schools concert at the Barbican.

April 2008
Ruciky Ballet at the Warsaw National Opera.

May 2008
Ruciky Ballet at the Warsaw National Opera.
LSO family concert at the Barbican.
Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra in South Africa.

 

FABIEN GABEL
Winner of the 2004 Donatella Flick Conducting Competition

Conducting engagements:

October 2007
Orchestre national du capitole de Toulouse.

November 2007
Schools concerts with the LSO at the Barbican.
Orchestre symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy.
Orchestre de concerts Lamoureux (Paris).

December 2007
Nutcracker with Opera de Toulon.

February 2008
Schools concerts with the LSO at the Barbican.

March 2008
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire in Angers, Le Mans and Nantes.

April 2008
Orchestre de l’Opera de Rouen.
Orchestre de Cannes/provence côte d’azur.

May 2008
Orchestre de l’Opera de Rouen.
Orchestre National de France in Paris
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg in Strasbourg.

June 2008
Schools concerts with the LSO at the Barbican.

 

FRANCOIS-XAVIER ROTH
Winner of the 2000 Donatella Flick Conducting Competition

Associate Conductor with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

Principal Guest Conductor with the Navarra Symphony Orchestre (Spain)

Music Director with Les Siècles

Conducting engagements:

August 2007
LSO concert at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Promenade Concerts.

September 2007
Les Siècles in Rouen.
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Lille and Paris.
Kwazulunatal Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban, South Africa.

October 2007
LSO, St Lukes: Panufnik composers workshop.
Les Siècles in Laon
Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris and Strasbourg.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Swansea.
BerlinerKomischOpernOrchester in Berlin.

November 2007
Philharmonic Orchestra in Seoul, Korea.
Hugh Masekela band at the Barbican Hall.
‘Take a Bow’ string extravaganza with the LSO at the Barbican Hall.

December 2007

Orchestre Poitou Charente at Poitiers
Dukas, Mozart & Saint Saën with Sir James Galway and the LSO at the Barbican Hall.

January 2008
Film Night with the LSO at the Barbican Hall
Les Siècles at Nimes
Les Siècles in Paris
Les Siècles in Epernay
Orchestre de Paris in Paris
Les Siècles in Nantes

February 2008
Orchestre Philharmonique de Lorraine, Metz
Les Siècles, Théâtre de Caen, “Gulio Cesare” Haendel

March 2008

Les Siècles, Théâtre de Genevilliers, “Médée” Dusapin

April 2008
Ensemble Intercontemporain, tour in Spain
Ensemble Contrechant, Geneva, Victoria Hall

May 2008
Les Siècles, Japan tour
Les Siècles Paris Opera Comique
Orchestre de Bayonne, Bayonne
Les Siècles Nantes

June 2008
Les Siècles, Brazil tour
Hong Kong Perfoming Arts Symphonic Orchestra, Hong Kong

 

CHRISTOPHE MANGOU
Winner of the 2002 Donatella Flick Conducting Competition

Conducting engagements:

Concerts during 2007 and 2008 with the soundpainting ensemble, ‘Amalgammes’ in Paris, created by Christophe.

July 2007
Kazakhstan student orchestra: toured in Tuscany.
(Christophe came to the Barbican Hall with the orchestra in July 2006)

September 2007
2 concerts in Paris with the Orchestre National d’Île de France for the jazz festival of La Villette
- with the Wayne Shorter Quartet – and the Belmondo brothers and Milton Nashimento.
Orchestre Bayonne at Tarbes and Biaritz.

October 2007
A special project with the cellist Sonia Wieder Atherton in Warsaw.

November 2007
Schools concert with the LSO.
Musical for children with the Orchestre National d’Île de France.

December 2007
‘Etrangement bleu’ by Tristan Mace at the Bleu Triton Jazz
Festival in Paris.

January 2008
Musical for children with the Orchestre National d’Île de France.
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse.
Orchestre de Picardie.

February 2008
Schools concert with the LSO.
Musical for children with the Orchestre National d’Île de France.

March 2008
Family concert with the Orchestre national de Lyon.

 

PAUL MANN
Winner of the 1998 Donatella Flick Conducting Competition

Principal Conductor of the Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark.

Conducting engagements:

October 2007
RPO at the Derngate Centre, Wellingborough, Northants.
Odense Symphony Orchestra at Odense.

November 2007
Odense Symphony Orchestra at Munich and Berlin.
Orchestre National de Lille at Lille.

December 2007
Odense Symphony Orchestra at Odense.

January 2008
Orquesta Sinfonica de Sevilla at Seville.

February 2008
New York City Ballet in New York.

February 2008
Odense Symphony Orchestra at Odense.

March 2008
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Della Rai Torino in Turin.
Orchestre de Bretagne at Rennes, Bretagne.

April 2008
Odense Symphony Orchestra at Odense.

May 2008
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in Kuala Lumpur.