Final participations for HfMT conducting students

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Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr's Hfmt conducting class can once again boast competition successes:
Yu Sugimoto has become a semi-finalist in the Besancon International Conducting Competition September 2021;
Bar Avni ( Alumna 2019 ) has made it to the final round of the Malko International Conducting Competition 2021.

Vitae

Born in Kyoto, Japan, studied Yu Sugimoto Orchestra Conducting at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama with Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr.
So far he has conducted the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, the Kyusyu Symphony Orchestra (in Japan), the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden State Operetta, the Symphonic Orchestra of the Detmold State Theater, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Thuringian Symphony Orchestra Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, the Sttatskapelle Halle, the Münster Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Heidelberg (in Germany) and Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese (in Italy). He also periodically conducts operas and has previously conducted The Magic Flute, La clemenza di Tito, Hansel and Gretel, Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin, Alcina, Oreste and The Emperor of Atlantis.
The Israeli-born conductor Bar Avihas been living in Germany for three years. Avni, who completed her concert exam at the HfMT in Hamburg, is a student of the renowned conductors Yoav Talmi, Martin Sieghart and Ulrich Windfuhr as well as David de Villiers.
Before Bar Avni left Israel to do her master's degree, she gained experience in classical percussion and played with all the leading Israeli orchestras. She studied bassoon as a second instrument.

Avni received several awards, including second place and the coveted orchestra prize at the 10th Fitelberg Conducting Competition in Katowice, Poland in November 2017. This recognition led to her debut with several Polish orchestras, including Sinfonia Varsovia and Opolska Filharmonia. After performing with Maestro Jaap van Zweden and Professor Johannes Schlaefli at the Yehudi Menuhin Festival's Gstaad Conducting Academy in 2018, Avni was nominated for the Neeme Järvi Prize. She was then invited to take part in the 2019 Conducting Academy with Maestro Manfred Honeck. During her studies, Avni worked as an assistant conductor with the Israeli Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Yoav Talmi in the 2013/14 season and with the Bergische Symphoniker under the direction of Peter Kuhn in 2017/18. There she conducted and presented many open-air and family concerts with great success and returned as a guest conductor in the 2019/20 season.