At the Gstaad Festival in Switzerland, American conductor Andrew Joon Choi has won this year’s Neeme Järvi Prize. The prize was given after a concert of Gstaad Festival Orchestra which was conducted by the participants of the Gstaad Conducting Academy, directed by Jaap van Zweden. Andrew Joon Choi (*1986) is currently a student at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.