Marin Alsop
Photo: Grant Leighton

Hosted in partnership with the Houston Symphony and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, the inaugural competition will take place in June 2028 in Houston, Texas with Marin Alsop as Jury Chair.

An esteemed Artistic Advisory Committee will consult on rounds, repertoire, and ways to support young conductors, and includes Alsop, Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Distinguished Resident Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at the Shepherd School), Kent Nagano, Robert Spano, Juraj Valčuha (Music Director of the Houston Symphony), and Xian Zhang.