Orchestral position for HfMT conducting students

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David Bui, concert exam student in Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr's conducting class, has won the competition for the position of Assistant Conductor of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

David Quang Tho Bui has been studying orchestral conducting at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin with Prof. Christian Ehwald and Prof. Hans-Dieter Baum since 2013. He completed his Bachelor's degree there in 2017. At the same time, he has been studying for the concert exam at the HfMT Hamburg with Prof. Windfuhr since 2020. In 2019, he spent an Erasmus semester at the Norwegian Academy of Music with Prof. Sigmund Thorp.

He expanded his education with masterclasses with Riccardo Muti, Johannes Schlaefli, Nicolás Pasquet, Neeme, Kristjan and Paavo Järvi, Leonid Grin, Mark Heron, Clark Rundell, Zsolt Hamar, Arthur Arnold and Czesław Grabowski.

David Quang Tho Bui has previously worked with the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt (Oder), the Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Karlovarsky Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Camerata, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, among others.

In 2019, David Bui was accepted into the Conductors' Forum sponsorship program and assisted Lothar Zagrosek with the German National Youth Orchestra in January 2020. He took part in courses with Peter Gülke (Brandenburger Symphoniker), Elias Grandy (Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg) and Enrico Delamboye (WDR Funkhausorchester) and was a finalist at the Kritisches Orchester® in Berlin, where he worked with Lutz Köhler.