HfMT students successful at the first German Conducting Prize

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In September 2017, the music world looked to Cologne: the German Conducting Prize celebrated its premiere from September 22 to 29, 2017. Anna Rakitina, a concert exam student in Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr's conducting class, won an outstanding 3rd prize. Hossein Pishkar from Iran won first prize in this already internationally significant competition, while Dominik Beykirch from Germany was awarded second prize.

The German Conductors' Award is an international competition for young conductors organized by the German Music Council in partnership with the Cologne Philharmonic, the Cologne Opera, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and the WDR Symphony Orchestra. The German Conductors' Award sets new standards with its unique selling point and serves as a springboard for great careers every two years. Agents, artistic directors and concert organizers attend the competition event and ensure that the prizewinners are celebrated on international stages in the future.

Anna Rakitina, born in Moscow in 1989, has been connected to music since childhood, first as a violinist and later as a musicologist. She began studying orchestral conducting at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2012 and graduated as a conductor in 2016. Since 2016, she has been enrolled as a master's student at the HfMT in Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr's conducting class.
In 2015, Anna Rakitina won third prize at the International Conducting Competition in Taipei (Taiwan). In 2016, she took part in masterclasses under the direction of Alan Gilbert at the Lucerne Festival Academy and completed further masterclasses under Rozhdestvensky and Jurowsky. Since 2016, she has been enrolled as a master's student at the HfMT in Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr's conducting class.
Anna Rakitina has worked with the following orchestras, among others: The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Bucharest George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Concert Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, Royal Northern College of Music chamber orchestra, Student and Chamber Orchestra of Moscow Conservatory and others.