Euro conducting finalists announced

The trio of young conductors hoping to win the 6th European Conductor's Competition in Oslo on Thursday evening have been announced.

The European Brass Band Championships are already underway in Oslo, with the first major final of the event taking place at the Oslo Konserthus on Thursday evening, when a trio of talented conductors look to win the 6th European Conductor’s contest.

Whittled down

The 16 contenders have been whittled down through three rounds of competition and will now face the daunting task of impressing a panel of adjudicators that include Peter Szilvay, Hans Urbanek, Fried Dobbestein, Ivan Meylemans and Robert Childs.

Finalists

The three finalists conducting Oslo Brass Band are Adam Cooke from England, who will direct Edward Gregson’s ‘Dances & Arias’, Dominik Koch of Germany who will conduct Wilfred Heaton’s ‘Contest Music’ and Kalle Huusava of Finland who lead the band on Robert Simpson’s ‘Energy’.

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