Currently assistant conductor at Orchestre National de Lille and Orchestre Français des Jeunes, Félix Benati is guest conductor at Orchestre Elektra and Ensemble Multilatérale for the season of 2023‒2024. Last year he assisted Mikko Franck with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France in Strauss lyrical repertoire, Benjamin Levy with Orchestre National de Cannes in Russian repertoire, and Chloé Dufresne at the Philharmonie de Paris. He was semi-finalist in the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition 2023 and

Francesco Cagnasso is Assistant Conductor at the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester (KKL) under Chief Conductor Michael Sanderling since January 2024. Since the season of 2022‒2023, he is holding the same position at the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany) and is working closely with Chief Conductor Micheal Francis. In 2021‒2023 he held the scholarship by the Forum Dirigieren and was a finalist of the Kritisches Orchester Berlin 2022.

Anna Castro Grinstein will make her conducting debut in the UK at 2024’s Opera Holland Park festival, conducting performances of Rossini’s Barber of Seville within OHP’s Young Artist Programme. In 2023 she was conducting fellow for the Aix-en-Provence Festival, conducting a concert program with the Balthasar Neumann Orchestra. She is a Britten Pears Young Artist for the season of 2023‒2024, working in a joint program with the Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker Young Artist focusing on contemporary opera.

Besides his conducting activities Mateusz Gwizdałła is an accomplished composer, singer and trumpetist. His studies include 2021–2024 MA Orchestral Conducting (Prof. Sakari Oramo Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki, Finland), 2016–2019 MA Symphonic and Operatic Conducting (Prof. UMFC dr hab. Monika Wolińska, Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Warsaw, Poland), 2012–2015 Double degree BMus (Jazz Composition) & BPA (Performing Arts/Theatre Making, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia).
He has experience conducting academy-related performances with Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra,

Guro Ansteensen Haugli is a Norwegian conductor educated at the University of Stavanger and Musikene, San Sebastian. In 2023 she was selected as assistant conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. Guro was a participant of the Norwegian conductor’s program Dirigentforum during a period of 4 years, 2018‒2022. In May 2021, she was one of four conductors at the concert Let’s Play with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra during Bergen International Festival.
As assistant conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, she regularly works with chief conductor Andris Poga, as well as visiting conductors. In addition to the assistant position in Stavanger, Guro is working as freelance conductor of different ensembles and orchestras.

Anna Malek made her conducting debut with W. A. Mozart’s Magic Flute at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin in 2021. From 2022-2024 she worked as 2. Kapellmeister and répétiteur at the Staatstheater Augsburg and is currently assisting Joana Mallwitz at the Konzerthaus Berlin. Her professional experience includes different positions as solo répétiteur, maestra suggeritrice and chorus master with conducting duties at theatres as Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Theater Lüneburg and Stadttheater Bremerhaven. She has also conducted

Pierre Mosnier’s recent engagements include working as guest conductor at Orchestre Lamoureux in 2023‒2024, assistant conductor to Susanna Mälkki at Festival D’aix en Provence, assistant conductor to Jean-Claude Casadesus and Orchestre National de France at Festival les Étoiles du Classique, and assistant conductor and choir conductor of Claude Debussy´s Pelléas et Mélisande.

Louise Müller-Monod has recently worked as a ceremony conductor of the l'Oréal-Unesco Prize for Women in Science, in concert with the Orchestre Colonne (Festival Chant de la Terre), the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Orchestre Pasdeloup, and soloist Guillaume Leroy. She has participated in masterclasses with Johannes Schlaefli ‒ Kammerorchesters Basel 2023, Jorma Panula ‒ Kecskemét Symphony Orchestra (Hungary) in 2023, Oksana Lyniv ‒ solo singers and Orchestra of the Odessa Opera House (Ukraine) in 2021, Jean-François Verdier ‒ Orchestre Victor Hugo Franche Comté

Nils Erik Måseidvåg has already worked repeatedly with many of the top Norwegian orchestras, such as the Oslo Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Arctic Philharmonic, Kristiansund Opera, and The Norwegian Radio Orchestra. He also enjoys a close relationship with the professional Norwegian military bands. Based in Copenhagen, he has worked with Odense Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Danish Life Guard’s Wind Band, and Aarhus Symphony Orchestra with whom he had his debut from The Royal Danish Academy of Music in 2020. Here he studied under Giordano Bellincampi and Michael Schønwandt and during his studies also conducted orchestras such as The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, and

Carl Nilsen has professional experience working with several of Norway’s professional symphony orchestras and ensembles. Nilsen also works as an arranger and composer. His major studies include a master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting at Royal college of Music in Stockholm with prof. B. Tommy Andersson 2023‒2025, composition at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences/The Norwegian Film School 2021‒2022, a master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting

Konstantins Petrenko is currently a master’s degree conducting student at Jazeps Vitols Latvian academy of music where he studies with Prof. Imants Resnis. He has just returned from his Erasmus exchange program in Royal College of Music in Stockholm where he studied with Prof. B. Tommy Andersson and David Björkman as a substitute teacher.
As a conductor he has experience from working with several professional orchestras in his home country and abroad: Gävle Symphony orchestra (Sweden), Latvian National Symphony orchestra,

Benedikt Sauer is a German-Italian conductor. Beside symphonic works, his repertoire includes a huge range of different operas with special focus on Verdi, Belcanto, and Mozart, but also rarities such as Schubert’s operas.
Benedikt has conducted various symphonic concerts in the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, and Hungary; among others at the Festival Valle d’Itria (July 2023), Smetana Hall (August 2018), the State Theatre Usti Nad Labem (October 2018, April 2019), and the Teatro Nazionale Milano (December 2016) as well as several concerts of sacred music, paying particular attention to historically informed performance.

Joseph Sieber is a Swiss pianist and conductor currently living in Paris. This season he has performed with the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, the DenverPhilharmonic, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, and the Plovdiv Opera Orchestra, among others, and has been invited to the Lovro von Matacic and Fitelberg competitions. He has studied composition, music theory, piano and conducting in Switzerland, England, and the USA, and received the highest distinction for conducting his final recital with the BBC Philharmonic. As assistant he has worked with conductors such

Vincent Siret is currently studying Orchestral Conducting at the Sibelius Academy and at the newly created Malko Academy for Young Conductors in Copenhagen. He has previously studied piano, recording, musicology and “pastiche composition” in Paris.
He is also particularly attracted to ballet and contemporary creation but feels familiar and emotionally close to a wide range of musical genres and languages. He completed his Bachelor of Arts, Orchestral Conducting at the Sibelius Academy, and graduated as master of arts,

In the season of 2023‒2024, Nikita Sorokin assisted Alain Altinoglu with the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra for Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony. He also assisted Gergely Madaras in staging Shostakovich’s opera The Nose at the Brussels Opera. Other recent conducting engagements include performances with the Orchestre de Picardie, the Miskolc Orchestra, the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, and the I. Yaushev State Opera and Ballet Theater in Saransk. In the season of 2022‒2023, Nikita assisted Alain Altinoglu with the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra on their tour to the Vienna Musikverein. Other recent

Eric Staiger recently performed Mahler’s Third Symphony with his student orchestra in Freiburg with over 200 participants at the Konzerthaus Freiburg. This season he’s making his debut at the Musikalische Komödie der Oper Leipzig with the operetta “Die Fledermaus”, and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin he will be engaged as musical assistant to Nicholas Carter and GMD Donald Runnicles for the RING cycle.
He is completing studies with a master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting at the Franz Liszt School of Music under Prof. Nicolás Pasquet and Prof. Ekhart Wycik.

Federico Tibone is an Italian conductor, pianist and vocal coach. He is since 2022 associate conductor in Opéra de Marseille and Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille (music director Michele Spotti), and associate professor of the Conducting Department at the Conservatoire de Lille.
Federico is from Turin, where he studied piano. After graduating the Conservatory, he collaborated with Teatro Regio di Torino as a vocal coach for many operaproductions. In 2015 he moved to Paris, where he studied conducting with Nicolas Brochot and becomes a member of the Académie de l’Opéra National de Paris as a vocal coach.

Erno Toikka is a Finnish conductor and French horn player who actively performs as a freelancer in Finnish professional orchestras. In recent years, he has worked with numerous orchestras, including the Finnish Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, and Finnish National Opera orchestras. Despite his young age, he has gained experience as a principal horn with orchestras such as the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Jyväskylä Sinfonia. As a conductor, he has conducted the South Denmark Philharmonic, Dresden Sinfonietta, Kecskemét

Kasmir Uusitupa, starting on the violin, progressed through East-Helsinki Music Institute, Sibelius Academy’s Youth Department, to professional studies at University of the Arts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy, Paris Conservatory, and Menuhin Academy. His key violin mentors include Kaija Saarikettu, Lauri Untamala, Paavo Pohjola, Antti Tikkanen, Olivier Charlier, Oleg Kaskiv, and Maxim Vengerov.
Kasmir has made appearances in nearly every leading Finnish

Sebastian Zinca is currently assistant conductor of the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, where he conducted around nine programs per season until January 2024.
His experience in repertoire ranges from conducting Händel opera on period instruments to several world premieres. Last year he worked with a lot of new music, most notably at the Lucerne Festival, where in the academy he was reinvited to conduct a workshop and concert in the summers of 2024 and 2025 respectively.
Sebastian is an accomplished conductor for opera and he is experienced with singers.