Greetings from Luxembourg! A lot has happened during the past few days: I had a success on Friday in concert with Kari Kriikku and the State Hermitage Orchestra, on Saturday I conducted the first movement of La Mer for the Besancon pre-selection audition, and yesterday I traveled the whole day to Luxembourg.

Yukihiro and the Jury

The competition started today and I watched a couple of participants. It is very nicely organized and the orchestra is good. I have some friends here, too, my classmates Rober and Yuki, and Ivan whom I met in a couple of competitions, and Ben whom I met in New York last summer.

Roberto, Ivan and Ben

My turn to conduct will be tomorrow morning, so now I just relax and concentrate to that. I took some photos today, and I will add them to this page as soon as I am home!