International Conductors Guild to launch 50th anniversary with conference

LONDON -- Conductors from around the globe will gather at the Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, London, Jan. 2-5, for the 50th Anniversary launch of the International Conductors Guild Conference. This is the third International Conference hosted by the ICG with previous international events held in Copenhagen in 2013, and Valencia, Spain, in 2023. This past year’s ICG Conference was held in David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, New York, with more than 125 in attendance.

The 2025 ICG London Conference features an in-depth conversation and Q & A with renowned cellist and arts advocate Julian Lloyd Webber on Jan. 4. Lloyd Webber enjoys one of the most creative careers in music today. As a solo cellist he has performed with many of the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and every leading symphony and chamber orchestra in the UK in partnership with such conductors as Sir Georg Solti, Lorin Maazel, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Neville Marriner, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir Mark Elder and Sir Andrew Davis.