Euan Shields was the winner of the Siemens Hallé International Conducting Competition 2023. He began his 2-year engagement as assistant conductor under Sir Mark Elder for the Hallé Orchestra and Music Director of the Hallé Youth Orchestra in Fall 2023. He also was a recipient of the Solti Foundation’s 2023 Career Assistance Award. In May 2023, Shields completed a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting at the Juilliard School under the guidance of David Robertson. He completed a Bachelor in Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, where he studied cello with Antonio Lysy and orchestral conducting with Neal Stulberg. Among the orchestras Shields has conducted are the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Hallé Orchestra, South Denmark Philharmonic, the Juilliard Lab Orchestra, and Juilliard’s AXIOM Ensemble.