Sir Simon Denis Rattle is a British conductor with German citizenship. He rose to international prominence during the 1980s and 1990s, while music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1980–1998). Rattle was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 2002 to 2018. He has been the music director of the London Symphony Orchestra since September 2017. Among the world's leading conductors, in a 2015 Bachtrack poll, he was ranked by music critics as one of the world's best living conductors.
Carl Adolph Schuricht was a German conductor.
The Symphony No. 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler is a symphony in four movements, composed in 1903 and 1904, with revisions from 1906. It is sometimes nicknamed the Tragic ("Tragische"), though the origin of the name is unclear.
Klaus Hermann Wilhelm Tennstedt was a German conductor from Merseburg. Known for his interpretation of the Austro-German repertoire, especially his sympathetic approaches towards Gustav Mahler, Tennstedt is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential conductors of the late 20th century. He worked with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra, and other highly regarded ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and most notably the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he was closely associated and recorded many of his celebrated recordings under the EMI label, including a cycle of Mahler's 10 symphonies.
Sir Charles Barnard Groves CBE was an English conductor. He was known for the breadth of his repertoire and for encouraging contemporary composers and young conductors.
Peter Ruzicka is a German composer and conductor of classical music. He was director of the Hamburg State Opera, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hamburg and the Salzburg Festival. Ruzicka was managing director and Intendant of the Salzburg Easter Festival and is professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. The list of his compositions includes numerous orchestral and chamber music works as well as the opera "Celan", about the poet Paul Celan, which was premiered in Dresden in 2001. His opera "Hölderlin" had its premiere at the Berlin State Opera in 2008. Ruzicka's third opera "Benjamin", about the philosopher Walter Benjamin, was written in 2015/16 for the Hamburg State Opera and premiered in 2018.
Philippe Maria François Herreweghe, Knight Herreweghe is a Belgian conductor and choirmaster.
The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) is a South Korean orchestra based in Seoul. Founded in 1948, it is one of the oldest orchestras in South Korea. Its first foreign tour came on a 1965 trip to Japan, followed by performances in Southeast Asia in 1977, the United States in 1982, 1986, and 1996, a 1988 tour of Europe before the Seoul Olympics that year, and a 1997 performance in Beijing. The Philharmonic is an incorporated foundation since 2005.
The Bamberg Symphony is a German orchestra based in Bamberg. The orchestra is resident at the Joseph-Keilberth-Saal of the Bamberg Konzert- und Kongresshalle.
Kazuo Yamada was a Japanese conductor and composer.
Ewa Strusińska is a Polish British conductor, General Music Director of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau (de) and principal conductor of the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie in Germany. Former music director and principal conductor of Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra, first became known to the artistic world as a laureate and prize winner at the prestigious Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg.
Adam Oscar Stern is an American conductor. Born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, Stern was trained at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. He received his MFA in conducting in 1977 at the age of twenty-one, the youngest music student in CalArts' history to receive a master's degree.
David Philip Hefti is a Swiss composer and conductor.
Benjamin Shwartz is an American-Israeli orchestral and opera conductor, and music director of the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Koblenz (Germany).. Formerly he held the position of music director of the Wrocław Philharmonic known for his interest in and commitment to new music. Born in Los Angeles and raised there and in Israel, he attended the Idyllwild Arts Academy in California before enrolling in the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied composition with James Primosch. He continued his composition studies in Germany with Karlheinz Stockhausen. As a conducting student at the Curtis Institute of Music, he studied with Otto-Werner Mueller and worked closely with Christoph Eschenbach and Ned Rorem. Shwartz won numerous awards including the Presser Award, and Third Prize in the 2007 International Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg, Germany.
Heinz Unger was a German conductor, known particularly for conducting the works of Gustav Mahler. In later life, he lived in Britain and Canada.
Shi-Yeon Sung is a South Korean classical conductor. In 2006, she became the first woman to win first prize in the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors' Competition. In 2007, she won second prize in Bamberg's Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition. That year, she became the first female assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a post she held through 2010. Among the orchestras she has conducted are the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C.. She was the associate conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic from 2009 to 2013. She served as the artistic director and chief conductor of Gyeonggi Philharmonic Orchestra from January 2014 until 2017. In 2022, she was appointed to the role of Principal Guest Conductor of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
The 2016 Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition was the fifth edition of the competition, and it was held in Bamberg from May 6 to 13, 2016 with the Bamberg Symphony. It was won by Singaporean conductor Wong Kah Chun.
John Carewe is a British conductor and teacher.
Wong Kah Chun, also known as Kahchun Wong, is a Singaporean conductor.
David Danzmayr is an Austrian conductor.
Gustavo Dudamel 
Ivo Venkov 
Oksana Lyniv 
Toshihiko Matsunuma 
Shi-Yeon Sung 
Benjamin Shwartz 
Ewa Strusinska 
Ainars Rubikis 
Aziz Shokhakhimov 
Lahav Shani 
David Danzmayr 
Tung-Chieh Chuang 
Kahchun Wong 
Sergey Neller 
Finnegan Downie Dear
Thomas Jung 
Wilson Ng
Giuseppe Mengoli [4] 
