"Conductor, 24, takes over new opera without rehearsal"
https://slippedisc.com/2018/02/conductor-24-takes-over-new-opera-without-rehearsal/
Levente Török has been Chief Conductor of the North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, Miskolc, since September 2024.
Born in 1993, the Hungarian comes from a family of musicians and already assisted at renowned festivals such as the Wagner Festival in Wels and the Baden-Baden Festival during his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where he was able to work with Ralf Weikert and Sir Simon Rattle, for instance.
In the 2014/2015 season, he initially worked as assistant choir director at the Vienna State Opera Choir Academy.
From 2015 to 2018, he was then engaged as a solo repetiteur with conducting duties at the Regensburg Theatre, from 2018 to 2022 at the Ulm Theatre and from 2022 to 2024 at the Mecklenburg State Theatre in Schwerin as 1st Kapellmeister.
BIOGRAPHY
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Levente Török has been a regular guest conductor at the Hungarian State Opera since 2019 (e.g. 2024 Tosca, 2025 Don Pasquale) and has already conducted most of the symphony orchestras in his home country.
In June 2021, he won the 1st International Conducting Competition in Llíria, Valencia. Thanks to this success, he has already conducted the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra (ORTVE) and the Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
In March 2023, he made his debut at the Icelandic Opera with Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Under the directorship of the Viennese KS Clemens Unterreiner, he conducted for the first time at OperBurg Gars am Kamp in 2024 (L´ elisir d´awith ORF television recording), which he will continue in 2025 with La Traviata.