Isabelle Ruf-Weber will chair the jury for the Bilbao Musika Directing Award
The Swiss director Isabelle Ruf-Weber will be invited teacher and president of the jury of the Bilbao Musika International Directing Awardorganized by the City Council of the Biscayan capital and It will fail in January 2023. This award is part of the Orchestral Conducting Meetings promoted by the municipal body Bilbao Musika and whose seventh edition will take place between January 10 and 13 next year.
The City Council, which has opened the deadline to register for these meetingsrecalled yesterday, Wednesday, that the selected participants, 20 in total, will direct the Bilbao Municipal Band in the different phases of the contest.
The winner of the final phase will obtain as award for being named guest conductor of the Bilbao Municipal Band for the 2023-2024 season. As president of the jury, the Swiss teacher Isabelle Ruf-Weber will exercise in this new edition of the award, who has extensive experience since for 25 years she was director of the Symphonic Band in Neuenkirch (Switzerland) and for 10 years musical director of the Landwehr Friborg (Switzerland) and the Symphonic Band in Baden-Württemberg (Germany). Since 2001 she is the musical and artistic director of the Sursee Theater.
In previous editions of these meetings, teachers such as Johan de Meij, Jan van der Roost, Franco Cesarini, Thomas Doss, Bert Appermont and Douglas Bostock have served as teachers.