Concours international de jeunes chefs d'orchestre

52nd Competition

The winner of the 52nd Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors is Yuki Kakiuchi.
Gergely Madaras won the Internet Audience vote (ARTE Live Web) and Stamatia Karampini won the Prize of the Public.

The Grand Prize is endowed with 12 000 € and possible collaborations with the following orchestras :

- London Philharmonic Orchestra (UK)
- Japan philharmonic orchestra (Japan)
- Dresdner Philharmonie (Germany)
- Brussels philharmonic (Belgium)
- Prague Symphony Orchestra (Czech Republic)
- Orchestre national d'Ile de France (France)
- Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (Australia)
- Orchestra of Opera North (UK)
- Sinfonieorchester Münster (Germany)
- Orchestre national de Bordeaux Aquitaine dans le cadre des Estivales de Musique au Coeur du Médoc (France)
- Wiener KammerOrchester (Austria)
- Orchestre de Besançon-Montbéliard Franche-Comté (France)
- Ontario Philharmonic (Canada)
- Hong Kong Sinfonietta (China)
- Orchestre de Dijon Bourgogne (France)
- Israel Sinfonietta Beer-Sheva (Israel)
- Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino (Italia)
- St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra (Russia)
- Slovak Philharmonic orchestra (Slovakia)

We thank orchestras for their collaboration.

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Jury of the 52nd Competition:

- Sir Andrew Davis (président), music director of the Lyric opera of Chicago
- Michael Jarrell, composer
- Anne Midgette, classical music critic -The Washington Post
- David Pickard, General Director of the Glyndebourne Festival
- Michel Tabachnik, music director of the Brussels philharmonic
- Fabrizio Ventura, music director of the Münster Opera and symphony orchestra
- Paul Watkins, music director of the English chamber Orchestra

The selected candidates for the 52nd competition were:

- Luc Bonnaillie (France)
- Emmanuel Calef (France)
- Young-Sun Choi (South Korea)
- Paul Fitzsimon (Australia)
- Yi Huang (China)
- Sho Itoh (Japan)
- Joongbae Jee (South Korea)
- Yuki Kakiuchi (Japan)
- Stamatia Karampini (Greece)
- Tam Gu Lee (South Korea)
- Gergely Madaras (Hungary)
- Hideaki Matsumura (Japan)
- Heejung Park (South Korea)
- Jamie Alexander Phillips (England)
- Vincent Renaud (France)
- Mathieu Romano (France)
- Tomohiro Seyama (Japan)
- Yu Sugimoto (Japan)
- Yuki Tanaka (Japan)
- Chuang Tung-Chieh (Taiwan)

Download the 2011 programme here and regulations here.