Another award for our conducting class

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Anna Rakitina, concert exam student in the HfMT conducting class of Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr, won an outstanding second prize at the Nikolai Malko Competition.

After David Niemann, another HfMT student was honored with a prize at this internationally renowned competition for young conductors within a short period of time. A total of 650 applicants from all over the world had registered for this year's competition.

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.
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.

If you want to see her skills live, Anna will conclude her MA master's examination on May 25 with Benjamin Britten's "The Rape of Lucretia" at the HfMT Forum.

The competition, named after the Russian conductor Nikolai Malko (1883-1961), has been held in Copenhagen every three years since 1965. The competition is sponsored by the symphony orchestra of Danmarks Radio. The current president of the competition is the Danish violinist Jacob Soelberg.