"I decided I could give up many things and still have the conducting competition".
In 1986 he won first prize in the Leopold Stokowski Conducting Competition in New York.
The final of the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition is at the Barbican on 4 November.
The new foundation is organizing an international conducting competition in September that will draw on conservatories in the United States, Japan, Poland, England, Brazil and Australia.
Ms. Borda had been tracking Mr. Dudamel since he won a conducting competition in Bamberg, Germany, in 2004.
He co-created the Donatella Flick conducting competition in 1990 and served as jury chair until 2008.
His breakthrough on to the international scene came in 2004, when he won the Gustav Mahler conducting competition, aged 23.
He first attracted international attention when he won the 2004 Gustav Mahler International Conducting Competition in Bamberg, Germany.
I won a conducting competition when I was 25 [the Rupert Foundation competition in London in 1976], and there were offers, offers, offers.
First prize in the 2014 Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition was awarded on 8 December to the competition's first female winner, Elim Chan.
