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Place of Birth: Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Kevin John Edusei
- Kevin John Edusei (born 5 August 1976, Bielefeld) is a German conductor. Edusei is of mixed Ghanaian and German ancestry, with a Ghanaian physician father, and a German historian, theologian, and pastor mother.
- His material grandmother, Antonie Wingels, was an opera singer with the Theater Bielefeld.
- He learned piano as a youth, and subsequently changed his musical study interests to percussion.
- At age 14, he became a percussionist with the youth orchestra in Ostwestfalen-Lippe.
- He studied percussion, sound engineering, and conducting at the Berlin University of the Arts.
- He continued his formal academic music studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where his teachers included Jac van Steen and Ed Spanjaard. In the USA, Edusei held a 3-month conducting scholarship at the 2004 Aspen Music Festival, where David Zinman served as a mentor.
- He was one of three participants in the 2007 Lucerne Festival Academy conducting class, under the guidance of Pierre Boulez and Péter Eötvös.
- He was a first-prize recipient in the 2008 Dimitri Mitropoulos Conducting Competition.
- His other conducting mentors have included Marc Albrecht, Kurt Masur, and Sylvain Cambreling.Beginning in 2004, Edusei served as First Kapellmeister, and subsequently Deputy Generalmusikdirektor, at the Theater Bielefeld.
- From 2007 to 2011, he was First Kapellmeister at the Theater Augsburg.
- He also served on the conducting staff of the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar for 2 years.In May 2013, Edusei was named chief conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra, effective with the 2014-2015 season.
- In June 2016, his Munich contract was extended through the 2021-2022 season.
- He also served as principal guest conductor of the Konzert Theater Bern, and subsequently became the company's chief conductor as of the 2015-2016 season, with an initial contract of 4 years.Edusei made his conducting debut at The Proms with the Chineke! Orchestra in August 2017.
- He conducted the Chineke! Orchestra in its first commercial recording, for the Signum label.Edusei and his wife have a daughter.
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