Jasper LeconÂ
Musical career
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Jasper Lecon is a Conducting Fellow of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Conducting Programme 2025 and has been a scholarship holder of the Forum Dirigieren since 2024.
In the 2025/26 season, he will appear in a project program at the Beethovenfest Bonn, realize concert projects with the BBC Philharmonic and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken–Kaiserslautern, and collaborate with the Munich Radio Orchestra. He will assist the SWR Symphony Orchestra at the Donaueschingen Festival, work with Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and take part as assistant in a new production at the Staatsoper Hannover.
Recently, he has conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as part of the Young Conductors Showcase, the Stuttgart State Orchestra, the WDR Funkhausorchester, the Hallé Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, and the International Ensemble Modern Academy.
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Jasper is active primarily in Germany and the United Kingdom and is highly regarded for his clear, energetic, and collaborative music-making. His strengths are particularly noted in contemporary music and music theatre, as well as his flexible, concept-driven approach to formats at the intersection of music, space, and narrative.
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He studied orchestral conducting, music education, and mathematics in Karlsruhe and Mannheim and is currently continuing his conducting studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Since 2025, he has been supported by a DAAD scholarship.