The 7th International Jorma Panula Conducting Competition from 13 to 16 November 2018.

The contestants of the Competition announced

The VII International Jorma Panula Conducting Competition is ne of the most prestigious conducting competitions in Europe is organized for the seventh time. The audience can follow up close the gifted conductors at work during the four days long competition.

This time the competition received 145 accepted applications of which 20 competitors were chosen from 11 different European countries with four reserve competitors. In total, the applicants represented 23 different European countries. The largest number of applications came from Spain (20), Finland (18), Italy (16), Germany (15), France (14) and United Kingdom (14). The video jury in the qualifying round consisted of Jorma Panula, Petri Sakari, Jukka Iisakkila and Jari Sinkkonen.

The triennial competition’s Artistic Director and Chairman has been from the beginning Academician Jorma Panula. The current competition’s jury consists of conductors Ralf Gothóni (Finland), Eva Ollikainen (Finland), Ole Kristian Ruud (Norway) and Josep Caballé Domenech (Spain). Moreover, one musician representative from each of the competition orchestras, Vaasa City Orchestra and Jyväskylä Sinfonia are included in the jury.

The audience is welcome to follow the competition at all its stages. The audience has free entrance to the first preliminary round on Tuesday 13 November and the Semi-finals on Thursday 15 November. On Wednesday 14 November the program includes a premiere of a commission work by Kimmo Hakola and Cello Concerto No. 1 by Camille Saint-Saëns with the winner of the Turku XIII Cello Competition, Leonardo Chiodo. The four-day competition will culminate at the Vaasa City Hall in the Finals concert conducted by three finalists. Tickets to the morning and the evening concerts on Wednesday and the Finals concert on Friday are available from July 16 via Studio Ticket (tel. +358700-96 525 and via online store www.NetTicket.fi .

Welcome to experience a high-level and exciting conducting competition with talented conductors of a new generation!

More information: www.panulacompetition.com

General Manager Merja Tyynelä, merja.tyynela@vaasa.fi, tel. 040 524 8877


 



          

 

   NEWS
28.05.2018
The contestants of the Competition announced!

 

13.04.2018
The registration for the competition has ended on April 5th. The pre-screening is already under way and the competitors will be announced officially by the beginning of June.

19.09.2015
One change to membership of the jury: Mikko Franck will replace Peter Gülke!

Competitors 2015: http://www.panulacompetition.com/participants