Malko Competition

The Malko Competition is an international competition for young conductors. It is held every three years by the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, to commemorate its founding conductor, Nicolai Malko.^[1]

Recipients

Year	Recipient	Lifetime	Nationality	Notes
1965	Ralf Weikert	b. 1940	Austria
1968	Avi Ostrowsky	b. 1939	Israel
1971	Winston Dan Vogel	b. 1943	United States
1974	Gotthard Lienicke
1977	Philip Barry Greenberg		United States	[2]
1980	Maximiano Valdés	b. 1949	Chile	[3]
1983	Claus Peter Flor	b. 1953	East Germany
1986	Kazufumi Yamashita	b. 1961	Japan	[4]
1989	Fabio Mechetti	b. 1957	Brazil	[5]
1992	Jin Wang	b. 1960	Austria
1995	Jan Wagner		Venezuela	[6]
1998	Seikyo Kim	b. 1970	Japan	[7]
2001	Josep Caballé Domenech[note 1]	b. 1973	Spain
2005	Mei-Ann Chen	b. 1973	United States	[8]
2009	Joshua Weilerstein	b. 1987	United States	[9]
2012	Rafael Payare	b. 1980	Venezuela	[10]
2015	Tung-Chieh Chuang	b. 1982	Taiwan	[11]
2018	Ryan Bancroft	b. 1989	United States	[12]
2021	Dmitry Matvienko	b. 1990	Belarus	[13]
2024	Samuel Seungwon Lee	b. 1990	South Korea

Notes

1. No first prize was awarded in 2001, and Caballé-Domenech was appointed the highest (2nd) prize.

References

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3. Written at Copenhagen. "Chilean named top conductor". The Montana Standard. Vol. 104, no. 356. Butte, Montana. Associated Press. May 21, 1980. p. 2.
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5. MacMillan, Kyle (February 3, 1994). "Brazilian Is Faithful to Composers". Omaha World-Herald. Vol. 129. pp. 31–32.
6. "Hot conductor". the ticket. The Miami Herald. Vol. 85, no. 288 (Palm Beach ed.). September 14, 1995. p. 7E.
7. "ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 21/7". Look at Vietnam. July 21, 2010. Archived from the original on September 25, 2010. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
8. Johnson, Lawrence A. (4 August 2010). "Mei-Ann Chen named music director of the Chicago Sinfonietta". Chicago Classical Review. Chicago. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
9. Eriksen, Jon Bonde (1 May 2015). "Former winner: Malko was the start of my conducting career". dr.dk. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
10. Mellor, Andrew (14 May 2012). "Venezuelan Rafael Payare wins Malko Competition". Gramophone. Haymarket Media Group. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
11. "Tung-Chieh Chuang er vinder af Malko Konkurrencen 2015". DR (in Danish). 1 May 2015.
12. "28-årige Ryan tager 1. plads i stor dansk musikkonkurrence: Nu vil jeg fejre det med en middag!". DR (in Danish). Retrieved 28 April 2018.
13. "Congratulations to the winners of the Malko competition 2021!". Malko Competition. Retrieved 12 June 2021.

External links

• Classical music portal

Official website