Simon Edelmann is currently working as Kapellmeister of the Vogtland Philharmonie. He studied with Prof. Nicolas Pasquet and Prof. Ekhart Wycik at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar and with Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, where he graduated with a concert performance degree with honor in 2024.

He has already performed with renowned orchestras such as Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Hamburg Symphoniker, Staatskapelle Weimar, Musikalische Komödie Leipzig, Niederrheinische Symphoniker and the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra, which immediately invited him back for another production. As a scholarship holder of the Ernst Boehe Academy from 2020 to 2022, he served as Assistant Conductor of the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and its Principal Conductor Michael Francis.^

Since 2022 Simon Edelmann has been a scholarship holder of the Forum Dirigieren of the German Music Council. Last season, this took him to the Saarland Radio Symphony Orchestra, to the Critical Orchestra Berlin and to the Hofer Symphoniker.

Simon Edelmann first attracted attention in international competitions when he won the Silver Medal of the Antal Dorati International Conduction Competition in Budapest in September 2021. One of his most recent successes was winning 1st prize and the orchestra prize at the ‚3rd International Conducting Competition University of Almeria‘ in December 2023 as well as the 3rd prize at the ‚16th Dimitri Mitrolpoulos International Conducting Competition‘ in May 2024