Kevin John Edusei with three premieres

Last season, Edusei performed Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio He has impressed critics and audiences alike. In the current season, he will direct Eduard Künneke's The cousin from whatsisname (premiere March 9, 2014), Richard Strauss' Ariadne on Naxos (premiere April 19, 2014) at the Stadttheater and Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes in the Great Hall of the Reitschule Bern (premiere June 6, 2014).

In a statement from Konzert Theater Bern, Concert and Opera Director Xavier Zuber is delighted about the intensification of the collaboration with the conductor: "Kevin John Edusei embodies the young, up-and-coming generation of conductors and also stands for the musical awakening at Konzert Theater Bern". Kevin John Edusei is similarly enthusiastic: "I already experienced the Konzert Theater Bern as an extremely progressive artistic venue last season. It offers a space in which ideas can emerge and develop. I am very happy that we can now continue our fruitful collaboration with three productions that are as exciting as they are challenging."

Born in Bielefeld, he studied conducting, sound engineering and classical percussion at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Royal Academy of Music in The Hague in the class of Jac van Steen and Ed Spanjaard.
During his three-month scholarship at the Aspen Music Festival in 2004, David Zinman appointed him Academy Conductor. He received further inspiration from Marc Albrecht, Kurt Masur, Jorma Panula, Sylvain Cambreling and Peter Eötvös.
As one of the three winners of the conducting competition initiated by Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös, he conducted Karlheinz Stockhausen's opus magnum at the Lucerne Festival 2007 Groups for three orchestras. In 2008 he won first prize at the Dimitris Mitropoulos Conducting Competition.
Edusei will become chief conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra from the 2014/2015 season.