Conductor Song Min Gyu won the 13th Cantelli Award. (Competition's official Instagram account)
By Koh Hyunjeong
Song Min Gyu has won the 13th Cantelli Award, aka the Guido Cantelli International Conducting Competition.
He was announced the winner on Oct. 6 at Coccia Theater in Novara, Italy, beating out competitors Giovanni Conti and Aram Khacheh from Italy and Luka Hauser from Germany.
Considered a gateway for young conductors ages 18-35, the contest this year saw a record-high 241 contestants. Eighteen reached the semifinals after three days of review, and four went on to the finals.
In August, Song was the runner-up at the second Hiroshima International Conductors Competition of Japan.
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