Jack (25) is a conductor and composer based in Manchester, and is currently a Junior Fellow in conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music. In 2018/19, Jack returns to Aldeburgh's Britten-Piers Young Artist Scheme, tours to New York and Copenhagen with contemporary music ensemble Apartment House and will be assistant conductor to Thomas Adès

Harry Ogg (27) is from London and is currently completing his Master's in Orchestral Conducting in Weimar. He made his Longborough Festival Opera debut in 2018 and is currently assisting Tomá Hanus on Prokofiev’s War and Peace at Welsh National Opera. Harry has previously worked with Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic as well as with Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé.

Teddy (29) recently joined San Francisco Opera as a conducting fellow after finishing his tenure as a Rita E Hauser Conducting Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Most recently, Teddy has conducted in performances and workshops with Opera Philadelphia, the Glimmerglass Festival and the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music.

In 2016, Niklas Benjamin Hoffman became the winner of the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, after conducting the LSO in the Competition's final concert at the Barbican. Since then he has worked with the Orchestra as Assistant Conductor while establishing a diverse freelance career. We talked to Niklas about what happens over the three days of the Competition and what his advice is to the conductors who’ll be stepping onto the podium in 2018.