“The sensitive touch and warmly luminous sound of every C. Bechstein instrument, whether upright or grand piano, have accompanied me since my first concerts and competitions. An enrichment in every situation: on stage and at home.”
Aurel Dawidiuk
Aurel Dawidiuk, born in Hanover in 2000, is considered one of the most outstanding and versatile musicians of his generation. He has performed at important cnocert halls including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, the Sendesaal Bremen, the Philharmonie Essen, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Kulturpalast Dresden, the Opéra national de Lorraine, the ORF Radiokulturhaus Vienna and at festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Beethovenfest Bonn and in many important churches in Germany and other European countries. As a pianist, organist and harpsichordist, he performs with numerous orchestras such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Göttinger Symphonieorchester, the Sinfonietta Köln, the Eroica Berlin, the Orchestre de l'Opera national de Lorraine and the Orchestra da Camera del Trasimeno. Aurel Dawidiuk has been Associate Conductor at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam since 2024.
Aurel Dawidiuk has won first prize at numerous national and international competitions, including the Schumann Competition in Zwickau in 2016, The London Organ Competition in 2018 and the International Young Organist Competition Moscow in 2019. In the same year, he won the renowned TONALi19 piano competition in Hamburg and, in addition to the main prize, received the Audience Prize, the Christoph Eschenbach Prize and six other special prizes. At "Jugend musiziert", he was awarded a total of seven 1st national prizes in various categories as well as special prizes and scholarships, including from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, the Carl Bechstein Foundation, the Stiftung Jugend Musiziert Niedersachsen and the Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund.
In August 2022, he won the "German Music Competition" in the organ category (no longer awarded since 2001), combined with the special prize of the Federal City of Bonn and his own CD production on the GENUIN label in co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur and the German Music Competition.
In 2023, he was awarded 1st prize in the category "Conducting from the piano" as well as two special prizes and the audience prize at the International Hans-von-Bülow Competition in Meiningen. In the same year, he was awarded the Neeme Järvi Prize of the Gstaad Conducting Academy in Switzerland and the Ernst von Schuch Conducting Prize in Dresden.
Aurel Dawidiuk began his musical education at the age of six with piano and violin and was a boy singer in the Hanover Boys' Choir for several years. In 2014, he became a junior student at the Institute for the Early Promotion of the Musically Gifted at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media in Roland Krüger's piano class and received organ lessons from Martin Sander at the Detmold University of Music. His other teachers and special companions include Gabriele Leporatti, Ulrike Adler and Hatto Beyerle. Since 2020, he has studied orchestral conducting with Johannes Schlaefli and Christoph-Mathias Mueller and piano with Till Fellner at the Zurich University of the Arts and is continuing his organ studies with Martin Sander at the Basel Music Academy.
Aurel Dawidiuk has been a scholarship holder of the German Music Council's "Conducting Forum" for top young conductors since 2021. He has attended masterclasses with Paavo Järvi, Jaap van Zweden, Joana Mallwitz and Pierre-André Valade, among others, and has already conducted renowned orchestras such as the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Meininger Hofkapelle and the Municipal Orchestra of Thessaloniki. Aurel Dawidiuk has been Associate Conductor at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam since 2024.
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