Nicolò Umberto Foron
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Nicolò Umberto Foron was named the winner of the 17th Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition in March 2023, becoming Assistant Conductor of the LSO for a year.
He is Principal Assistant Conductor of Ensemble Intercontemporain, Paris, was the winner of the International Conducting Competition Jeunesse Musicales Bucharest 2021, and in 2022 was selected as a member of the Peter Eötvös Mentoring Programme and as a Conducting Fellow of Tanglewood Festival.
On 1 August 2023 German National Broadcasting named him Artist in Residence Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk und Musikfest Bremen, recognising him as young artist of the year. As part of this award he will undertake a concert tour and a CD recording with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in 2024. Past winners include Julia Fischer and Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and he is the first ever conductor to receive this prize.
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’25-year-old maestro wins competition with explosive Berlioz in joyous finale … After beating out 80 other young maestros from across the UK and Europe, Foron said he was ‘ecstatic’ and thanked the ‘magnificent players of the London Symphony Orchestra’. Classic FM, Nov 2023
‘Thank you so much to the jury, to Donatalla Flick and to the magnificent players of the London Symphony Orchestra. It has been such a great week. I’m ecstatic.’ Nicolò Umberto Foron, Nov 2023
Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition
In 1990, Donatella Flick founded her Conducting Competition to offer much-needed support to young conductors at the start of their careers. She remains at the helm of the Competition working with a small team and in partnership with the London Symphony Orchestra to present the Competition every two years.
