Finalists

In alphabetical order:

Marco Berrini (3rd prize ex-aequo)

Marco Berrini (3rd prize ex-aequo), born in Milan, Italy in 1964, teaches Choral Training at the Conservatory “A.Vivaldi” in Alessandria and is the conductor of the vocal group “Ars Cantica”.

Oscar Boada (3rd prize ex-aequo)

Oscar Boada (3rd prize ex-aequo), born in Barcelona, Spain in 1961, has founded and is the conductor of the Cor Vivaldi-Petits Cantors de Catalunya and the Chamber Choir Vivaldi.

Anna Jelmorini

Anna Jelmorini, born in Lugano, Switzerland in 1967, lives in Zürich where she conducts the choir of the Zürich University and School of Engineering “Akademischer Chor Zürich” and the “Singkreis der Engadiner Kantorei”.

Paolo Paroni

Paolo Paroni, born in Udine, Italy in 1967, is the conductor of various choral ensembles: Coro Panarie, Coro del Rojale and the choir Juvenes Cantores del Duomo di Udine.

Ragnar Rasmussen (1° premio)

Ragnar Rasmussen (1st prize), born in 1966 in Vardø, Norway, teaches Choral Training and Choral Conducting at the Tromsø University and is the conductor of various vocal ensembles.

Vincent Rouquès

Vincent Rouquès, born in Paris in 1967, teaches vocal chamber music at the Paris Conservatory and is the conductor of several choral ensembles, among which “Les Voix Mêlées” and the choir of the Erik Satie Conservatory in Paris.

Antonio Scaioli

Antonio Scaioli, born in Lecco, Italy, in 1966, is a teacher of the Como Conservatory and the conductor of the Choral Academy in Lecco as well as of the vocal ensemble Syntagma in Milan.

Anna Flora Spreafico

Anna Flora Spreafico, born in Rovagnate, Lecco, Italy in 1964, has founded and conducts the choir “I Piccoli Cantori delle colline di Brianza”, and the Choral Group Licabella.

Roberto Tofi

Roberto Tofi, born in Sansepolcro, Arezzo, Italy in 1963, is the conductor of the Polyphonic Choir “Città di Bastia” in Bastia Umbra and of the Polyphonic Group “Francesco Coradini“ in Arezzo.

Alan Urbanek

Alan Urbanek, born in Wroclaw, Poland, in 1969, is artistic director and conductor of the choir “Gaudium” of the Wroclaw University.

Rita Varonen (2nd prize)

Rita Varonen (2nd prize) was born in 1963 in Hungary where she studied music in Miskolc. At present she lives in Vesanka (Finland) and teaches choral conducting.

Cinzia Zanon

Cinzia Zanon, born in Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza in 1964, is the conductor of several choral and instrumental ensembles and, in particular, of the choir “Gioventù in Cantata” in Marostica.