Japan’s Satoshi Yoneda gained a global competitors in France for up-and-coming orchestra conductors on Saturday, turning into the eleventh Japanese winner of the competition that produced internationally profitable conductors together with the late Seiji Ozawa.
Yoneda, 29, hailing from the western Japan metropolis of Okayama, was among the many three finalists within the weeklong 59th version of the Besancon International Competition for Young Conductors, together with 26-year-old American Kyrian Friedenberg and China’s Tianyi Xie, 21, who was the youngest candidate.
Prizes for the winner embody 12,000 euros ($14,000) and three months {of professional} profession mentoring.
“I have no words to describe my feeling except that I’m happy. I hope I become a conductor who can perform with musicians in wonderful orchestras around the world,” Yoneda instructed reporters.
The competitors, first held in 1951, has been held biennially since 1993 in japanese France. Aside from Ozawa who gained in 1959, previous winners included Yoel Levi of Israel and Japan’s Yutaka Sado.
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