Levente Török was born into a musical family in 1993. After completing his studies in piano and music composition at the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Music, he continued his education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. During his years at the conservatory, he served as a répétiteur at the Hungarian State Opera’s Opera Studio under the guidance of Géza Oberfrank. He made his debut as an opera conductor in May 2014, in a production of Don Giovanni at the Schönbrunn Palace Theatre, the following year, he led the Wiener Staatsoper’s newly created Chorus Academy as assistant to the chorus director.
He has worked as a conductor and répétiteur at numerous prestigious music festivals. Since 2014, he has served as the permanent assistant conductor of the Wels Wagner Festival, whose production of Lohengrin also made it to the Royal Opera House. Between 2015 and 2018, he worked at Theater Regensburg. In March 2017, as part of the Baden-Baden Festival, he worked with Sir Simon Rattle as the répétiteur for a production of Tosca, and he also served as Teodor Currentzis’s assistant in La bohème in the autumn of that same year. He served as principal conductor at Theater Ulm from 2018 and the Mecklenburg State Theatre from 2022. In March 2017, as part of the Baden-Baden Festival, he worked with Sir Simon Rattle as the répétiteur for a production of Tosca, and he also served as Teodor Currentzis’s assistant in La bohème in the autumn of that same year.
In 2021, he won the 1st International Conducting Competition in Llíria, Valencia. Thanks to this success, he received invitations to the National Orchestra of Spain, Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Malaga Philharmonic, Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville, and Orchestra of Valencia. Later the same year he was given the opportunity to conduct a Christmas concert in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein. In March 2023, he also appeared at the Icelandic Opera, where he conducted Madama Butterfly.
In 2024, he conducted Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at the Gars am Kamp Opera Festival, which was recorded by the Austrian State Television, and in 2025 he conducted Verdi’s La Traviata at the same venue. In the spring of 2026, he is to make his debut at the Stuttgart Opera House with Rossini’s La cenerentola.
In Hungary, he has conducted the National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pannon Philharmonic, the Szeged Symphonic Orchestras of Miskolc, and the Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok. Since September 2024, he has been the principal conductor and artistic director of the Miskolc Symphony Orchestra. He is a recurring guest conductor of the Hungarian State Opera, where he made his debut in 2019 with Háry János by Kodály. He later conducted Hunyadi László by Erkel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Britten, Iphigenie auf Tauris by Gluck/Strauss, and Tosca by Puccini. In the 2025/26 season, he conducts Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and Verdi’s La traviata as well as the new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte.
