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Kaapo Ijas

Kaapo Ijas

Finland | *1988
Took his master’s degree in 2017 at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with previous studies at the Sibelius Academy and Zurich University of the Arts. Kaapo Iljas was a semifinalist in the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition 2016. Broadmindedness and an unprejudiced attitude to other arts and all genres are at the core of Ijas’ approach.

Participants 2021

Katharina Wincor

Austria | 26

Daniel Gyuseo Lee

South Korea | 27

Nathan Aspinall

Australia | 31

Paul Marsovszky

Germany | 27

Maurice Cohn

United States | 26

Bar Avni–Pallentin

Israel | 32

Junping Qian

China | 31

Chloe Rooke

United Kingdom | 24

Dmitry Matvienko

Belarus | 30

Chloé Dufresne

France | 29

Timur Zangiev

Russia | 27

Nils Erik Måseidvåg

Norway | 28

Hankyeol Yoon

South Korea | 27

Mirian Khukhunaishvili

Georgia | 31

Holly Hyun Choe

USA/South Korea | 30

Linhan Cui

China | 27

Joel Sandelson

United Kingdom | 27

Valentin Egel

Germany | 26

Anton Holmer

Sweden | 30

Teresa Riveiro Böhm

Austria | 31

Norman Huynh

United States | 32

Sergey Akimov

Russia | 31

Andrei Feher

Romania/Canada | 30

Aleksei Rubin

Russia | 33
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