SIXTH DONATELLA FLICK CONDUCTING COMPETITION
OCTOBER 21 - 23, 2000
INTERNATIONAL JURY ANNOUNCED

Competition continues its association with the London Symphony Orchestra
Final to be public concert on October 23, 2000 at the Barbican

The biennial Donatella Flick Conducting Competition takes place in London
between October 21 and 23, 2000.  The competition aims to advance the
careers of young conductors under the age of 35 who are citizens of the
European Union.

As a key part of his or her prize, the winner will again work as Assistant
Conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra for up to one year after the
Competition and receive an award of GBP 15,000 to subsidise a period of
specialist study and concert engagements.  During this period he or she
will work with the Orchestra and its principal and guest conductors in
the preparation of concerts and will accompany them on tour.  The unique
collaboration between the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition and the
LSO provides the winner with a valuable opportunity to work with a major
international orchestra and its leading visiting conductors.

The 1998 winner of the Competition, Paul Mann, has worked with the London
Symphony Orchestra for the past year on some of its most exciting projects.
He has assisted Sir Colin Davis in his work with the Orchestra including
preparing highly acclaimed concert performances of Verdi's Otello with Jose
Cura, Mstislav Rostropovich in his historic Shostakovich series, Myung-Whun
Chung in a performance of Mahler Symphony No 2, and Kent Nagano in Leonard
Bernstein's Candide.  He conducted the LSO and the Lincoln Center Jazz
Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and two performances of the LSO with Deep
Purple at the Royal Albert Hall.

For next year's Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, chaired by Lord
Birkett, the distinguished international Jury will include Yuri Temirkanov,
Yan Pascal Tortelier, Carlo Majer and Moray Welsh.  Applications must be
received by May 16, 2000.  From video cassettes of a performance, which
candidates are required to submit with professional recommendations,
twenty candidates will be selected by a panel of experts to take part in
the Competition.  They will be invited to rehearse and conduct the Royal
Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra in extracts from Symphonies by Mozart
and Haydn and a work by Ibert before the jury on October 21.  From these,
ten semi-finalists will be selected to rehearse and conduct a programme of
Bliss, Elgar and Britten the following day.

Three finalists will be chosen to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra
in a public concert on October 23 in the Barbican Hall.  The programme for
this Final will include Beethoven Egmont Overture, which each candidate
will conduct, and one of the following works to be chosen by lot: Richard
Strauss Till Eulenspiegel, Britten Four Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes) and
Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919 version).

The Patron of the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition is HRH The Prince
of Wales, the Committee of Honour includes Salvatore Accardo, Luciano
Berio, Riccardo Chailly, Gabriele Ferro, Carlo Majer, Sir Neville Marriner,
Gian Carlo Menotti, Maurizio Pollini, Carlo Rizzi, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
and Lady Solti.

For further information about the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition
please contact: The Administrator, Donatella Flick Conducting Competition,
47 Brunswick Gardens, London W8 4AW Tel: +44 (0)20 7792 2885 Fax: +44
(0)20 7792 2574.  http://www.conducting.org/

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