–Levente Zsíros is a young hungarian conductor who served as assistant conductor of the Hungarian State Opera between 2021 and 2024, where he made his debut in 2022 conducting Benjamin Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. He has led several opera performances, including Gaetano Donizetti’s “Il Campanello” and Erkel’s “Hunyadi László”, and Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”. He has assisted as a conductor and vocal coach in works such as Wagner’s “The Ring of the Nibelung” and “Parsifal”, various operas by Verdi and Mozart, and Béla Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle”, among other operas. In July 2023, he conducted the Hungarian State Opera’s Verdi Opera Gala.

-In 2022, he won 2nd prize among 170 participants in the 1st International Erich Bergel Conducting Competition. 

-Levente has lead numerous concerts with professional orchestras, including the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda, the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, the Szent István Philharmonic Orchestra, the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, the Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Alba Regia Symphony Orchestra, the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra, the Szolnok Symphony Orchestra and the State Philharmonic of Targu Mures.

-Since 2024 he has been working at the University of Szeged – Béla Bartók Faculty of Arts as a piano accompanist.

-He graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 2021 and also holds an MA in piano accompaniment vocal coaching. Prior to that, he also studied choral conducting. He was a postgraduate student at the Collegium Symphonicum Hungaricum Postgraduate College for Conductors. Originally a pianist, he also studied double bass and percussion.

-He was an active participant of several masterclasses, including the conducting masterclasses of Eric Whitacre, Jonathan Brett, Zsolt Hamar, László Marosi, Zoltán Kocsis-Holper and Daniel Afonso.

-In recent years, he has performed Haydn’s six late masses, various masses by Mozart, and contemporary oratorio works. He has conducted the premieres of several contemporary orchestral pieces, some of them as part of a joint project between the Manhattan School of Music and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music.