Biography
Born in Sofia in 1988, Edmon Levon is a Spanish orchestral conductor who achieved great success on his recent debuts with the Spanish Radio Symphony Orchestra (review), Extremadura Orchestra (review) and Córdoba City Orchestra. He has also conducted orchestras such as the Tonhalle-Orchestra Zürich, Gstaad Menuhin Festival Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata, Netherlands Philharmonic, South Netherlands Philharmonic, the Hague Resident Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Jena Philharmonic (review), Russe Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic and Granada City Orchestra (with which he has also performed as a violin soloist on three occasions).
He has seen success at various international conducting contests, being recently awarded the Third prize at the "Llíria City of Music" International Conducting Competition and becoming the only Spanish conductor to get through to the semifinal round at the 9th “Sir Georg Solti” International Conducting Competition with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (press release).
Edmon has extensive experience as assistant conductor, having worked with maestros Antony Hermus, John Storgårds, Vasili Petrenko, Jac van Steen, Juanjo Mena and Pablo González in concerts and recordings with the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Prague Symphony Orchestra. He is currently the Main Conductor of the Ceuta International Symphony Orchestra and the Granada Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Having studied orchestral conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Royal Conservatory of the Hague, some of his mentors are Manfred Honeck, Sir Mark Elder, Ivor Bolton, Daniele Gatti and David Zinman, who in 2020 wrote that "Edmon Levon is a very intelligent and talented musician who shows great promise in his future career as a conductor, and he has done an oudstanding work with the Tonhalle-Orchestrer Zürich.”
Edmon has a special interest in the Portuguese repertoire, having conducted numerous UK and Spanish premières of works by Joly Braga Santos, Frederico de Freitas, Luís de Freitas Branco and Eurico Carrapatoso and with engagements to conduct in Germany Portuguese programmes that include traditional fado in orchestral arrangement with the renowned fado singer Maria Ana Bobone.
He has seen success at various international conducting contests, being recently awarded the Third prize at the "Llíria City of Music" International Conducting Competition and becoming the only Spanish conductor to get through to the semifinal round at the 9th “Sir Georg Solti” International Conducting Competition with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (press release).
Edmon has extensive experience as assistant conductor, having worked with maestros Antony Hermus, John Storgårds, Vasili Petrenko, Jac van Steen, Juanjo Mena and Pablo González in concerts and recordings with the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Prague Symphony Orchestra. He is currently the Main Conductor of the Ceuta International Symphony Orchestra and the Granada Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Having studied orchestral conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Royal Conservatory of the Hague, some of his mentors are Manfred Honeck, Sir Mark Elder, Ivor Bolton, Daniele Gatti and David Zinman, who in 2020 wrote that "Edmon Levon is a very intelligent and talented musician who shows great promise in his future career as a conductor, and he has done an oudstanding work with the Tonhalle-Orchestrer Zürich.”
Edmon has a special interest in the Portuguese repertoire, having conducted numerous UK and Spanish premières of works by Joly Braga Santos, Frederico de Freitas, Luís de Freitas Branco and Eurico Carrapatoso and with engagements to conduct in Germany Portuguese programmes that include traditional fado in orchestral arrangement with the renowned fado singer Maria Ana Bobone.
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