Baku / 11.09.18 / Turan: The IV International Conductors Contest named after Svetlanov ended in Paris the day before.
The international jury led by the famous conductor Alexander Vedernikov selected only two out of the four young conductors who qualified for the finals. The first prize was not awarded to anyone. The second prize was shared by Dmitry Filatov from Russia and Fuad Ibrahimov from Azerbaijan, the organizers of the contest say.
Fuad Ibrahimov is the chief conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of Baku and the Orchestra of the New Philharmonic of Munich. More than 350 applications from 56 countries from Guatemala to China were submitted for the jubilee contest. -02D-
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