Edmon Levon was the only Spanish director to make it to the final. He surprised all the attendees throughout the week of competition with his experience and his good work on stage and there is no doubt that he will be named for years to come.
A young conductor from Granada, trained in England and Holland. Among the orchestras he has conducted are the RTVE Orchestra, Orquesta de Extremadura, Orquesta de Córdoba and Orquesta Ciudad de Granada (orchestra with which he has also performed as violin soloist on three occasions) and, abroad, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Gstaad Menuhin Festival Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra South Netherlands, The Hague Philharmonic, Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphoniker Hamburg and Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.
Edmon has been assistant conductor to Pablo González, Juanjo Mena, Antony Hermus, John Storgårds and Jac van Steen with orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Prague Symphony. He has also participated in masterclasses with teachers Daniele Gatti, David Zinman, Juanjo Mena, Manfred Honeck, Ivor Bolton and Sir Mark Elder.
Edmon is Chief Conductor of the Young Symphony Orchestra of Granada since 2018 and of the Ceuta International Symphony Orchestra since 2020. In October 2020 he conducted the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, remaining as one of the 5 semi-finalists out of 437 young conductors in the 9th Sir Georg Solti International Conductors’ Competition. He has also been a semi-finalist in the 2nd Antal Doráti International Conducting Competition with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra.
