Success for HfMT alumnus

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Samuel Lee, concert exam alumnus from Ulrich Windfuhr's HfMT conducting class, has won first prize at the Nikolai Malko Conducting Competition in Copenhagen 2024.

The Nikolai Malko Competition (Nicolai Malko Competition for Young Conductors) is a renowned international competition for young conductors and is one of the three most important competitions of its kind in the world. Applicants must be between 20 and 35 years old. The competition is named after the Russian conductor Nikolai Malko (1883-1961).
The competition has been held in Copenhagen every three years since 1965. The competition is sponsored by the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The current chairman of the competition jury is chief conductor Fabio Luisi.
Four prizes are currently awarded, with prize money ranging from 20,000 to 1,500 euros. The winner of the competition is given the opportunity to perform concerts with 25 symphony orchestras over a period of three years.

Vita
Samuel Lee, current winner of the Malko Competition 2024, also first prize winner of the BMI International Conducting Competition in Bucharest and the International Conducting Competition in Taipei, was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 2022.
His guest conducting engagements include his debut at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with the Hamburg Camerata and at the Gewandhaus with the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra as well as with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra the Frankfurt State Orchestra, the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Camerata, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra, the Arad Philharmonic Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Korean Symphony Orchestra, the KBS Symphony Orchestra and the SAC Festival Orchestra. In 2021 and 2022, Lee was also a Conducting Fellow at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, where he worked with conductors Cristian Măcelaru, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Octavio Más-Arocas and Marin Alsop.
Lee assisted Cristian Măcelaru in concerts with the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, Munich and Salzburg and Vladimir Jurowski in his concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He recently acted as cover conductor for the Minnesota Orchestra's subscription concert.
Samuel Lee has been music director and conductor of the orchestra of the C.P.E.Bach Musikgymnasium Berlin since 2016. He and the orchestra are regularly invited to perform subscription concerts at the Berlin Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus Berlin. He was also professor of viola at the Hochschule für Music and Drama "Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy" in Leipzig, Germany until 2022.
Lee is a graduate of the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, where he studied viola with Prof. Tabea Zimmermann (BM, MM, concert exam) and orchestral conducting with Prof. Christian Ehwald (BM, MM). Lee completed his concert exam in orchestral conducting at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama under Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr.