Participants to go to the II Round of the Conducting category of the Rachmaninoff International Competition have been announcedBy the decision of the jury in the Conducting category, the following participants have been admitted to the II Round of the Rachmaninoff International Competition

Filippo Dessi / Italy

Alexey Rubin / Russia

Tilen Draksler / Slovenia

Philipp Selivanov / Russia

Clement Nonciaux / France

Nikolai Tsinman / Russia

Haoran Li / China

Arseny Shuplyakov / Russia

Gurgen Petrosyan / Russia

Ivan Nikiforchin / Russia

Alexey Morgunov / Russia

Mikhail Mosenkov / Russia

Arman Tigranyan and Sergey Neller have been noted by Valery Gergiev and will be invited to join his projects for the next theatre season. Yury Demidovich, Andrey Kolyasnikov and Ivan Khudyakov-Vedenyapin will be invited by Valery Gergiev for an internship.

The 1st round in the Conducting specialty was held from 18 to 20 June in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. 25 contestants had to go through two works with the orchestra in the format of an open rehearsal – Symphonic Fantasy The Rockby Sergei Rachmaninoff and a part from the symphony by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Ludwig van Beethoven at the choice of the participant. The jury members are: Valery Gergiev (Chair of the jury), César Álvarez, Christian Knapp, Tao Lin, Fabio Mastrangelo, George Pehlivanian, Valery Polyansky, Alexander Sladkovsky, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Christopher Chen.

Details on the Contest website.