26-year-old Anna Sułkowska-Migoń came first, and Joanna Natalia Ślusarczyk, ten years her senior, took second place. The third prize went to Beatriz Fernandez Aucejo, 38, from Spain.
Sułkowska-Migoń received 20,000 euros in prize money, as well as a special prize of 2,000 euros for her accompaniment of Alma Mahler’s Three Songs, sung in the competition’s semi-finals by the mezzo Victoire Bunel.
The Slippedisc classical music news site ran its report from the Paris competition under the headline: “The top women conductors are Polish”.
Anna Sułkowska-Migoń is a student of Łukasz Borowicz at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in the southern Polish city of Kraków. She works as conductor-in-residence of the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra and conducts the Kraków-based Ars Cameralis Choir.
Sułkowska-Migoń is the Award Recipient of the 2022-24 Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship (TACF), which was launched two decades ago by the famous conductor Marin Alsop, with financial support from Japanese business mogul Tomio Taki.
Joanna Natalia Ślusarczyk graduated with honours from the Academy of Music in Katowice, southern Poland, where she studied symphonic and opera conducting with Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk. She is a prize winner of conducting competitions in Romania, Bulgaria, Portugal and the UK.
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Source: slippedisc.com, breakingmusicnews.com