BIOGRAPHY
Levente Török has been General Music Director of the City of Aachen since the 2026/27 season.
Born in Hungary in 1993 into a family of musicians, he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. During his studies, he assisted at, among others, the Wagner Festival in Wels and the Baden-Baden Festival, where he collaborated with conductors including Ralf Weikert and Sir Simon Rattle.
In the 2014/15 season, Török initially worked as Assistant Chorus Master at the Vienna State Opera. From 2015 to 2018, he was a répétiteur with conducting duties at Theater Regensburg. He subsequently served as First Kapellmeister at Theater Ulm (2018–2022) and at Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin (2022–2024).
From 2024 to 2026, Levente Török was Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra in Miskolc. Since 2019, he has maintained a particularly strong presence as a guest conductor in his home country. At the Hungarian State Opera, for example, he conducted Puccini’s Tosca and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. In 2026, he was responsible for Verdi’s La traviata as well as a new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. In 2027, he will conduct Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi there.
Since 2022, he has also regularly performed with the Hungarian National Philharmonic and has already collaborated with most of Hungary’s major symphony orchestras.
A major impetus for his international career came with his winning First Prize at the 1st International Conducting Competition in Llíria, near Valencia, in June 2021. Following this success, he received invitations from, among others, the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra (ORTVE) and the Málaga Philharmonic.
In 2023, Török made his debut at the Icelandic Opera with Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. At Oper Burg Gars, he conducted Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love in 2024 under the artistic direction of KS Clemens Unterreiner; the production was also recorded for ORF television.
In 2025, he returned to Oper Burg Gars to conduct Verdi’s La traviata. In 2026, he made his debut at Staatsoper Stuttgart with Rossini’s La Cenerentola.