German conductor Aurel Dawidiuk (* 2000 in Hanover) is recognised as one of the most outstanding and versatile musicians of his generation.

He was recently appointed Associate Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and will hold this position from the current 2024/25 season.

In October 2024, he was also awarded the Hamburg Ritter Prize for particularly outstanding achievements, combined with an engagement with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

In 2023, he was honoured with three international conducting prizes: 1st prize at the Hans von Bülow Competition Meiningen, the Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and the Dresden Ernst von Schuch Prize. Aurel Dawidiuk is also the winner of TONALi 2019 (piano) and the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2022 (organ, not awarded since 2001).

Since 2020, he has been studying orchestral conducting with Johannes Schlaefli and Christoph-Mathias Mueller and piano with Till Fellner at the Zurich University of the Arts, as well as organ with Martin Sander at the Basel Music Academy.

Masterclasses with Paavo Järvi, Joana Mallwitz and Jaap van Zweden complement his training.

Aurel Dawidiuk is currently a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and the German Music Council's Forum Dirigieren for top young conductors.

Guest conducting engagements with leading international orchestras in the coming season include his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam.

10.2024

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The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is pleased to announce the creation of a new associate conductorship, to be filled for the first time starting the 2024–25 season for a period of two seasons. The position was made possible by a generous donation from the Haitink family.

Following an international selection of candidates nominated by a panel of specialists, four young conductors auditioned live with the Concertgebouw Orchestra under the direction of its artistic partner Klaus Mäkelä. On the basis of these auditions, Aurel Dawidiuk was chosen as the Concertgebouw Orchestra’s very first associate conductor.

Dawidiuk will be collaborating on approximately half the concert programmes performed during the 2024–25 and the 2025–26 seasons. His duties as associate conductor will be varied, thus enabling him to forge artistic ties with the orchestra. Besides assisting leading conductors both in Amsterdam and on tour, he will work with orchestra musicians in ensemble formation and fulfil a role in the orchestra‘s talent development programme. In the latter half of the 2025–26 season, Dawidiuk will work with the orchestra for a week and conduct several subscription concerts.

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