Aurel Dawidiuk’s swift ascendance as both conductor and instrumentalist makes him, at the age of 23, one of classical music’s most promising new talents. In 2023 he was awarded both the Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Menhuin Festival and First Prize at the 2023 International Hans von Bülow Meiningen Competition in the category Conducting from the Piano, where he also garnered their Audience Choice Award and two other special prizes. In August 2022, he was the overall victor of the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb in the organ category (not awarded since 2001) and was subsequently awarded the special prize of the City of Bonn and a recording deal with the GENUIN label in co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, with his album release planned for late 2023
2023/24 season’s highlights include a featured concert at the Berlin Philharmonie alongside the Karajan Academy and recitals at the Elbphilhamonie Hamburg, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Konzerthaus Berlin, Dresden Kulturpalast, Brucknerhaus Linz, the Beethoven Festival in Bonn and the Rostock Bach Festival as well as many other locations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
In previous years Aurel Dawidiuk has performed across Europe as a recitalist on piano and organ including guest appearances at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, Konzerthaus Dortmund, ORF Radiokulturhaus in Vienna, Sendesaal Bremen, Essen Philharmonie, Opéra National de Lorraine, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and Hitzacker Musikwoche. As a concerto soloist he has appeared with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonietta Köln, Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lorraine and Orchestra da Camera del Trasimeno.