Finalists Announced for Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award

The three finalists will conduct a concert with the Camerata Salzburg during Austria's Salzburg Festival in August

Open to conductors from all over the world who are over 21 and under 35 years of age, the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award is an initiative of the Salzburg Festival in cooperation with the Eliette and Herbert von Karajan Institute.

The three finalists — Vitali Alekseenok, Tobias Wögerer, and Hankyeol Yoon — will each conduct a one-hour concert with the Camerata Salzburg as part of the 2023 Salzburg Festival on August 4, 5 and 6. Held at the Main Auditorium of the Mozarteum Foundation, the concert programs will be chosen jointly by the Salzburg Festival and the candidates, one focus being on contemporary compositions. In a public award ceremony after the last concert, the jury will announce the winner of the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award.

The winner will receive €15,000 and an invitation to the 2024 Salzburg Festival, where they will conduct the Award Winner’s Concert in the Felsenreitschule.

Chaired by Manfred Honeck, the jury is Peter Alward, Gary Hanson, Markus Hinterhäuser, Brian McMaster, Alexander Meraviglia-Crivelli, Pamela Rosenberg, Florian Wiegand.

Past winners of the competition include Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Lorenzo Viotti, and Maxime Pascal.