Vitali Alekseenok as finalist of the Young Conductors Award at the Salzburg Festival

As a finalist of the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award, Vitali Alekseenok will make his debut at the Salzburg Festival. With a differentiated program ranging from Mozart to Beethoven to contemporary works by Podgaiskaya and Silvestrov, he will be conducting the Camerata Salzburg on Saturday (August 5), in front of a jury chaired by Manfred Honeck and composed of leading figures of the field.

Previous winners of the YCA include Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and Aziz Shokhakimov.

The concert can also be streamed live at this link, and the winner will be announced after the third concert on Sunday (August 6). Toi toi!

Please find further information here.