Kevin John Edusei

Born in Bielefeld, Edusei studied orchestral conducting, classical percussion and sound engineering ("Tonmeister") at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where his teachers included Jac van Steen and Ed Spanjaard.

In 2004, he became assistant conductor of the Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt,[4] and served on the conducting staff of the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar for two seasons.

[8] Edusei is an alumnus of the Deutsche Bank Stiftung Akademie Musiktheater heute[9] and the Dirigentenforum of the German Music Council.

[13] During his tenure, he led new productions of among others Peter Grimes, Salome, Ariadne auf Naxos, Bluebeard's Castle, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde, Káťa Kabanová and a cycle of the Mozart - Da Ponte-operas.

[16] In the autumn of 2022, Edusei made his debut with the Royal Ballet and Opera, Covent Garden, conducting Puccini’s La bohème with a cast that included Ailyn Pérez and Juan Diego Flórez that was streamed to cinemas worldwide.