The Jury

Béla Hary

Béla Hary was born in Simleul Transilvaniei, Romania and educated in Cluj-Napoca, Paris and Weimar where he studied piano, composition and conducting. His teachers included Olivier Messiaen, Kurt Masur, as well as many others. His close relationship with the legendary Romanian conductor, Sergiu Celibadache, also had a profound impact on his artistic development. Maestro Hary has been affiliated with the Hungarian Opera in Cluj-Napoca since 1956 and was its music director between 1970 and 1990. As a conductor of symphonic music, Maestro Hary has led nearly all the major orchestras in Romania. On the occasion of Bartok’s birth centenary in 1981, the Hungarian Government decorated him for his role in advancing the knowledge and appreciation of the Hungarian master’s works. As a composer, Hary Béla has written for piano, chamber orchestra and the stage.

Igor Dohovic

Igor Dohovic was born in 1973 in Presov, Slovakia and graduated from the Lviv Music Academy in 1999 as an opera and symphonic conductor with professor Jurij Luciv, in 2002 finishing his postgraduate studies. Since 1997 he has been conductor (and since 2002 the chief conductor) of the Slovak State Opera in Kosice. He conducted more than 30 titles of opera and ballet. In 2003 he won first prize in the International Conducting Competition in Spoleto. Maestro Dohovic has conducted throughout Europe and Japan and regularly cooperates with the Slovak State Philharmonic Kosice as well as many orchestras in Poland, Hungary, Italy and Ukraine and participated at festivals in Spain, Scotland, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Italy and Japan. He is the founder of an opera festival as well as educational program and has worked as a stage director too.

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Bojidar Bonev

Bojidar Bonev studied conducting with Franco Ferrara at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. In 1974 he became a conductor at the State Opera of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria and since 2001 he is the general manager of the company. Currently Bojidar Bonev teaches conducting at the Bulgarian State Academy of Music in Sofia as well. He has more than 60 operatic titles in his repertoire and has toured widely with many of them in Europe and America. He has conducted all the major symphony orchestras in Bulgaria including the Sofia Philharmonic, the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra, the Plovdiv Philharmonic, the Ruse Philharmonic, et al. Bojidar Bonev also appeared at the Bregenz Festival (Austria) leading a Don Giovanni performance.

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