FORMER WINNERS

The importance of a competition is measured by the career of its winners.

ANTON SHABUROV

First Prize of Felix Mendelssohn International Conducting Competition, First Edition.

In August 2021 Anton Shaburov became a principal conductor and artistic director of the Rostov Symphony Orchestra (Rostov-on-Don, Russia). In 2019 Tirgu-Mures Philharmonic orchestra (Tirgu-Mures, Romania) elected Anton Shaburov as its principal guest conductor. Since 2017 Anton Shaburov also holds the position of a permanent guest conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre (Primorsky Stage, Vladivostok, Russia).
Anton Shaburov shared the stage with Yuri Bashmet, Alexandr Knyazev, Alexandr Ghindin, Boris Andrianov, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, Sergei Dogadin, and Veronika Dzhioeva among the others.

SEITARO ISHIKAWA

Second Prize of Felix Mendelssohn International Conducting Competition, First Edition.

He has conducted the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, Osaka Symphony Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, Kobe City Chamber Orchestra, WDR Funkhausorchester, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Bergisch Symphoniker, Thessaloniki Symphony Orchestra, Filarmonica de Stat Dinu Lipatti Satu Mare, and Mihail Jora Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ishikawa received piano training from Tatsuya Hayashi and Jura Margulis, and conducting instruction from Yoshikazu Tanaka, Hanns-Martin Schneidt, Gerhard Bosse, and Rüdiger Bohn at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf.

MARTA GARDOLINSKA

Third Prize of Felix Mendelssohn International Conducting Competition, First Edition.

The 22-23 season will see Polish conductor, Marta Gardolińska, enter her second season as Music Director of Opera national de Lorraine and her first season as Principal Guest Conductor of Orquestra Sinfònica de Barcelona.
Recent highlights have included debuts with the London Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Orchestre National Capitole de Toulouse and Opera du Rhin where she conducted a celebrated production of Carmen with Stephanie d’Oustrac. The 22-23 season will see return visits to the CBSO, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as further debuts with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Halle Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra.