Filmmaker Maggie Contreras was in her car, listening to NPR‘s “All Things Considered,” when she heard a report that piqued her interest. “The world of orchestra conducting is still dominated by men.

Last week some of the world’s top conducting talent met in the Cannon Center and went baton to baton in the first Memphis International Conducting Competition. First-place prize went to Ken Lam, a ...

Marin Alsop conducts the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in the Final Round of The Sixteenth Cliburn International Piano Competition in Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas on June 14, 2022. She ...

A new contest in the heart of Europe promises to be more than a competition – a global platform for conductors and ideas It’s never been harder for promising conductors to break their careers – partly ...

Last month Elim Chan, a Music, Theatre & Dance graduate student, became the first female winner of the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition, a competition sponsored by the Prince of Wales to ...

After a forty-year absence, and to celebrate one hundred years since the birth of Guido Cantelli - the great conductor from Novara - the Conducting Competition that was created in his memory comes to ...

This week, 20 of the most exciting young conductors across Europe have made their way to London to take part in the 17th Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition, conducting the mighty London ...

The Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition will come to the UK for the first time in partnership with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. With applications now open (until April ...