"He has done an outstanding work with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and I can highly recommend him."

- David Zinman

 

Biography

Born in Sofia (Bulgaria), Edmon Levon is a conductor from Granada, currently the principal conductor of the Ceuta International Symphony Orchestra and the Granada Youth Symphony Orchestra and a violinist in the Granada City Orchestra.
 
After having studied in Weimar, Manchester, Amsterdam and the Hague, he is one of the few emerging Spanish conductors with international standing. He has worked as a guest conductor with Jenaer Philharmonie (review), Sinfonietta Cracovia (press release), Manchester Camerata and Monferrato Classic Orchestra, and in Spain with the Spanish Radio Symphony Orchestra RTVE (review), Granada City Orchestra, Málaga Philharmonic (review), Extremadura Symphony Orchestra (review), Murcia Symphony Orchestra and Córdoba Symphony Orchestra.

In the 24/25 season he will have the pleasure of making his debut with the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa and returning for the second time as guest conductor to the Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE and for the third time to the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and the Orquesta de Córdoba.

He has also conducted orchestras such as the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Netherlands Philharmonic, Gstaad Menuhin Festival Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Argovia Philharmonic and Moscow Philharmonic in masterclasses with conductors such as David Zinman, Manfred Honeck, Juanjo Mena, Sir Mark Elder, Ivor Bolton and Daniele Gatti, among others. 

Winner of the Third Prize in the International Conducting Competition "Llíria City of Music" in 2021, he has also been a semi-finalist in the II Hong Kong International Conducting Competition and in the IX International Conducting Competition "Sir Georg Solti" with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (press release).
 
He has extensive experience as an assistant conductor, having conducted on several occasions the BBC Philharmonic as assistant to Juanjo Mena and Jac van Steen, the Hague Philharmonic and JONDE as assistant to Pablo González, the Netherlands Youth Orchestra as assistant to Georg Fritzsch and Antony Hermus, the Barenboim-Said Foundation Orchestra as assistant to Pablo Heras-Casado and the Extremadura Youth Orchestra as assistant to Andrés Salado.

 

References

Extremadura Symphony Orchestra

"He took care and gave flexibility to the string sections, which shone on a par with their wind colleagues. He did an all-round job in which quality and attention to detail were paramount.”

- Justo Romero, Scherzo
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 Jenaer Philharmonie

"Rarely is [R-Korsakov's Scheherazade] experienced as full of inner movement and sonority. For Edmon Levon it was a successful evening in his first conducting in Germany.”

- Hans Lehmann, Thüringische Landeszeitung
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Spanish Radio Symphony Orchestra RTVE

"From the first day of rehearsals I could tell that he is a young conductor different from the others: he has a great leadership ability, a good presence on the podium and an exceptional musicality."

- David Mata, Section Leader of Second Violins
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Extremadura Symphony Orchestra

"I entrusted him with a programme with the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra with little rehearsal time and he achieved a brilliant result.”

- Álvaro Albiach
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Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

“He has done an outstanding work with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and I can highly recommend him. He is a very intelligent and talented musician, he shows great promise in his future career as a conductor.”

- David Zinman
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Granada City Orchestra

"I have been concertmaster of various orchestras in various countries [...] and I have learned to identify what interests me most in conductors – the authenticity. This is an essential feature that guarantees the success of a project and gives meaning to music. Edmon is one of these conductors, his dedication guarantees brilliant results and his personality guarantees art."

- Yorrick Troman

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