Aurel Dawidiuk
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Associate Conductor: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
General Music Director Designate: Bochumer Symphoniker (from August 2026)
Described in the Hamburger Abendblatt as “a new star in the firmament of conductors”, Aurel Dawidiuk’s swift ascendance as both conductor and instrumentalist makes him one of classical music’s most promising new talents. He is General Music Director designate of BochumerSymphoniker from September 2026.
In 2025/2026 Dawidiuk enters his second season as Associate Conductor with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Highlights of the season include return conducting engagements with the Royal Concertgebouw and Bundesjugendorchester Deutschland as well as début appearances with Bamberg Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hamburg Symphony, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Wiener Kammerorchester, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Dortmund Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and China National Symphony orchestras. In Spring 2026, Dawidiuk embarks on an organ recital tour that includesthe Zurich Tonhalle, Wiener Konzerthaus, Kölner Philharmonie, and CNDM Madrid.
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Dawidiuk’s recent guest-conducting engagements include appearances with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Kammerorchester Basel, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne,Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava and Orquestra do Algarve. In past seasons, he has been featured at the Berlin Philharmonie alongside members of the Karajan Academy and in recital on both organ and piano at the Elbphilhamonie Hamburg, Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, KonzerthausDortmund, Philharmonie Essen, ORF Radiokulturhaus in Vienna, Sendesaal Bremen, LaeiszhalleHamburg, Konzerthaus Berlin, Dresden Kulturpalast, Brucknerhaus Linz, Opéra National de Lorraine, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Beethoven Festival in Bonn and Rostock Bach Festival.
Dawidiuk is the recipient of numerous awards including 2024 Ritter Preis, the Neeme Järvi Prize at the 2023 Gstaad Menhuin Festival, and First Prize at the 2023 International Hans von Bülow Meiningen Competition in the category Conducting from the Piano, where Dawidiuk 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. Previous accolades includea comprehensive sweep of virtually every award at the 2019 TONALi Piano Competition in Hamburg and first prizes from the 2019 International Young Organist Competition Moscow, 2018 London Organ Competition and 2016 Schumann Competition in Zwickau.
Dawidiuk released his latest album B‑A-C‑H; “Hommage à…” in 2023 on the GENUIN label in co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, a collection of organ music which garnered him two Opus Klassik Award nominations. This follows his début release of Liszt | B‑A-C‑H in 2022, featuring piano selections by both composers.
Born in Hannover, Aurel Dawidiuk began his musical education at the age of six and later studied piano with Roland Krüger and organ with Martin Sander. He subsequently studied conducting with Johannes Schlaefli and Christoph-Mathias Mueller at the Zürich University of the Arts, where he also took piano lessons with Till Fellner. He has since attended master classes with Paavo Järvi, Jaap van Zweden, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and Joana Mallwitz, and counts among his mentors Hatto Beyerle, Gabriele Leporatti and Ulrike Adler.
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Musikforum
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PAUL HINDEMITH: Ragtime
JOSEPH HAYDN: Concerto for Piano No.11
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Symphony No,1
Die Glocke
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MISSY MAZZOLI: Sinfonia
EDWARD ELGAR: Concerto for Cello
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Symphony No.1
Konzerthaus
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JOHANNES BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
JOSEPH HAYDN: Concerto for Cello No.1
ROBERT SCHUMANN: Symphony No.4
Kulturpalast
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PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY: Concerto for Piano No.1
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.1
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De Doelen
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PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme
MODEST MUSSORGSKY/MAURICE RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition
KKL
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DANNY ELFMAN Concerto for Cello
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Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Overture Figaro
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Concerto for Piano No.4
FRANZ SCHUBERT Symphony No.5
Auditorium
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Overture Coriolan
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.3 Eroica
“His debut with the Dresden Philharmonic became a moment of brilliance.”
“A rising star […] soon to take the conducting world by storm.”
“Magnificent: a new star in the conducting firmament.”






