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Edusei’s 2021/22 season features many debuts - in North America these include the Dallas, Baltimore, Indianapolis Symphony and Minnesota orchestras and at Alice Tully Hall (New York City) with the Juilliard Orchestra, and in Europe; the Royal Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestras, Essen Philharmonic and Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, among others. He also returns to Scotland to conduct a joint concert with the BBC Scottish and Royal Scottish National Symphony orchestras in Glasgow. The 21/22 season marks Edusei’s eighth and final season as Chief Conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra and following his debut with the Fort Worth Symphony in September 2021, Edusei takes up the position of Principal Guest Conductor with them from the 22/23 season.
In 2019, Edusei concluded his tenure as Chief Conductor of Bern Opera House, where he led many new productions including Britten Peter Grimes, Strauss Salome, Bartók Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, Wagner Tannhäuser and Tristan und Isolde, Janáček Kátya Kábanová and a cycle of the Mozart - Da Ponte operas. Elsewhere, Edusei has conducted at the Semperoper Dresden, Hamburg State Opera, Hannover State Opera, Volksoper Wien and Komische Oper Berlin. Most recently, he made his debut at English National Opera in a new production of Mozart The Marriage of Figaro and he looks forward to making his debut at London’s Royal Opera House in a forthcoming season.
In 2014, Edusei was awarded the fellowship for the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival by David Zinman, in 2007, he was a prize-winner at the Lucerne Festival conducting competition under the artistic direction of Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös, and in 2008, he won the First prize at the International Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition.
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