He convinced the juries of the Deutschlandfunk music department and the Musikfest Bremen last year with his innate musical talent, his infectious energy, his smart and analytical insight into the score and his immense treasure of experience despite his young age: the young German-Italian conductor Nicolò Umberto Foron won the Deutschlandfunk award for young artists, which comes with a CD production and a concert at the Musikfest Bremen 2024 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Born in Genoa in 1998 and raised in Bielefeld, the musician initially received piano lessons from K-H. Kämmerling and Anatol Ugorski. From the age of ten, he studied with the legendary Jorma Panula and was subsequently invited by Bernhard Haitink to take part in his masterclasses at the Lucerne Festival. After graduating from school, he began studying conducting at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam at the age of 16, followed by a master's degree at the Royal College of Music and his concert exam at the Royal Academy of Music in London at the age of 21. Highly focussed, precise, completely dedicated to the orchestra, with controlled passion and concentrated energy, Foron conducts the orchestra and interprets a wide range of music, from classical to romantic and modern to contemporary works. Foron has performed with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Montpellier, the Mendelssohn Academy of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Noord Nederlands Orkest, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Ensemble Intercontemporain and, last but not least, the London Symphony Orchestra, which he has led as Assistant Conductor since winning the 17th Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in 2023. In 2022 he was elected Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Festival. He was regularly invited to the Budapest Music Centre by Peter Eötvös and has conducted at the Opera Forward Festival, Highclere Castle Festival, Newbury Spring Festival, the Grachtenfestival, the National Opera and the Academy for Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam.