Aurel Dawidiuk

The Hamburger Abendblatt hailed German musician Aurel Dawidiuk (born 2000 in Hanover) as “a new star in the firmament of conductors”. He is General Music Director designate of the Bochumer Symphoniker (from August 2026) and enters his second season in 2025/26 as Bernard Haitink Associate Conductor with Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Highlights of the season include return engagements with the Royal Concertgebouw and Bundesjugendorchester and début appearances with the Bamberg Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and China National Symphony. In spring 2026 Dawidiuk embarks on an organ recital tour that will take him to venues such as Zurich’s Tonhalle, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Cologne Philharmonie and Madrid’s CNDM. He has won numerous awards – including the 2024 Ritter Prize, the 2023 Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and first prize at the 2023 Hans‑von‑Bülow Competition – and his 2023 album B‑A‑C‑H; Hommage à… earned multiple Opus Klassik nominations. Dawidiuk received his musical training from the age of six, studying piano with Roland Krüger, organ with Martin Sander and conducting with Johannes Schlaefli and Christoph‑Mathias Mueller at the Zurich University of the Arts.