Yoel Levi
Yoel Levi (Hebrew: יואל לוי, born 16 August 1950) is an Israeli musician and conductor.He also studied with Franco Ferrara in Siena and Rome, with Kirill Kondrashin in the Netherlands, and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.With the Atlanta Symphony, Levi made several commercial recordings for Telarc, including music of Samuel Barber,[2] Aaron Copland,[3] Miklos Rozsa,[4] Shostakovich,[5] and Mussorgsky.In August 2013, Levi was named the next music director and principal conductor of the KBS Symphony Orchestra in South Korea, effective January 2014, with an initial contract of 2 years.In 1997, Levi was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree by Oglethorpe University in Atlanta and also gave the commencement address.