Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic have announced the 2024-25 Dudamel Fellowship Program participants.

The four conductors that will participate this year are Holly Hyun Choe, Dayner Tafur-Diaz, Luis Castillo-Briceño and Molly Turner.

Choe comes from South Korea and was raised in Los Angeles. She is the principal conductor of the chamber orchestra Ensemble Reflektor, Artiste Associé for L’Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, and former assistant conductor of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. She is Solti Foundation Career Assistance Award recipient.

Meanwhile Tafur-Díaz who was born in Peru won the German Conducting Award (October 2023) and is the First Prize in the second edition of the International Opera Conducting Competition of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège (Belgium, August 2022). He was selected as one of 20 finalists in the 2023 Mahler Competition.

Castillo-Briceño is a Costa Rican conductor who is the Conducting Fellow of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and a designated winner in the Rotterdam International Conducting Competition 2025.

Turner is a Chinese-born conductor and composer from Tacoma, Washington who is the Conducting Fellow with the New World Symphony.

The fellowship which was established in 2009, provides a unique opportunity for promising young conductors from around the world to develop their craft and enrich their musical experience through personal mentorship and participation in the LA Phil’s orchestral, education, and community programs.