"Spanish conductor Julio García Vico (Cádiz, 1992) has won the 16th Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, held this weekend in London. The biennial competition always features the London Symphony Orchestra, with the participating conductors taking turns at the helm. The award means that García Vico will become Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra for one year [...]."
"The young Spanish conductor Julio García-Vico, just 29 years old, won first prize yesterday at the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, now in its 16th edition. Vico [...] was appointed Principal Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, giving him the opportunity to work with the orchestra’s then Music Director, Sir Simon Rattle, as well as the LSO’s principal guest conductors, French conductor François-Xavier Roth and Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda."
"With his professional career based in Düsseldorf, Julio Vico had already won the German Conducting Award in 2019, as well as the Audience Award of the Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung and the Bonn Opera Award 2019."
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"Julio García Vico [...] has just been announced as the next Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. The Spanish conductor, who has just won the 16th edition of the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, associated with the London Symphony Orchestra, will thus work alongside such distinguished conductors as Simon Rattle, Gianandrea Noseda and François-Xavier Roth. This is not the first accolade received by this Philosophy graduate from the UNED. García Vico has already won the German Conducting Award (2019), the Audience Award of the Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung, and the Bonn Opera Award (2019)."