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Yoel Levi (1950—) is a musician and conductor. Born in Romania, he grew up in Israel. He studied at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music, earning a Master of Arts degree with distinction. He also studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music under Mendi Rodan. Levi has also studied with Franco Ferrara in Sienna and Rome, with Kiril Kondrashin in the Netherlands, and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

In 1988, Levi became the music director and principal conductor for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Levi became the music director emeritus in 2000, succeeded as music director by Robert Spano. (Levi still conducts two concert weekends each season.) In 2001, he was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

He conducted the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the 1991 Nobel Prize Ceremony. Under him, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra played at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

As of 2005, he is a music advisor to the Flemish Radio Orchestra and is the Principal Guest Conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

Performed with

Levi also has performed with many other renowned music groups, including appearances with:

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Budapest Orchestra
Chicago Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra
Copenhagen Orchestra
Flemish Radio Orchestra
Frankfurt Orchestra
Ile-de-France Orchestra
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Minnesota Orchestra
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Munich Orchestra
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
New York Philharmonic
Philadelphia Orchestra
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Rome Symphony Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Teatro Communale Orchestra (Italy)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Washington Symphony Orchestra
Yngwie J. Malmsteen

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