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The audiovisual director and producer Daniel Arregui, who has worked with Tritó on other occasions, has launched a crowdfunding project to make a documentary about the recent 2013 Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition.

The documentary is intended to present an event that has taken place since 1992 and advanced the careers of orchestral conductors such as Gianandrea Noseda, Vasily Petrenko, Michal Nesterowicz and Pablo González, today the chief or guest conductors of highly prestigious orchestras. (Click on this link to watch a videoclip of the 2010 competition).

Lorenzo Viotti, a young Swiss French conductor aged twenty-three, took the first prize: the opportunity to conduct twenty-three symphony orchestras over the next three seasons!!!

During the second and third weeks of December 2013, over one hundred and twenty conductors from all over the world met up in Cadaqués and Barcelona, respectively, to take part in this conducting competition on its eleventh occasion, with the Cadaqués Ensemble and Orchestra. The works the participants were asked to conduct during the different rounds of the event included pieces by Stravinsky, Mozart and Arriaga, and the premiere of a contemporary work by Hèctor Parra.

Three conductors reached the semi-finals and two were selected for the final concert, which took place at the Auditori in Barcelona on 19 December 2013. Lorenzo Viotti, a young Swiss French conductor aged twenty-three, took the first prize: the opportunity to conduct twenty-three symphony orchestras over the next three seasons!!!

For further information and if you are interested in participating in the project, visit the verkami website. The deadline is on the January 20th.

Daniel Arregui was a direct witness to the intense musical experience shared by these one hundred and twenty-three conductors during the competition and wants this documentary to serve as a record of the event.

For further information and if you are interested in participating in the project, visit the verkami website. The deadline is on the January 20th.