Photo: Marco BorggreveKevin John Edusei
Germany; lives in Munich
Kevin John Edusei studied conducting at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
- First prize, Mitropoulos Competition, 2008
- Lucerne Festival competition prize, 2007
- New York Philharmonic debut
- La bohème at Royal Ballet and Opera
- Former chief, Munich Symphony Orchestra
“Tasteful restraint and explosive energy.”
Upcoming events
In 2007 he was a prize-winner at the Lucerne Festival conducting competition under Pierre Boulez, and in 2008 he won first prize at the Dimitri Mitropoulos Competition in Athens. He was chief conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the Bern Opera House, where he led new productions of Peter Grimes, Salome and Tristan und Isolde. He has debuted with the New York Philharmonic and conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra.
In 2022 he made his Royal Ballet and Opera debut with La bohème, streamed to cinemas worldwide. In 2025/26 he was Conductor-in-Residence of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In March 2027 he returns to the Oregon Symphony for Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony.
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