French conductor Martin Lebel has been appointed as Music Director at ‘Filarmonica de Montevideo’ in Uruguay, and he takes his post immediately. Winner of the First Prize at the Prokofiev International Competition in St-Petersburg in 2003 and of the third prize at the Mitropoulos International Competition in 1998, he was assistant of James Conlon for his productions with the Gürzenich Orchester in Cologne and at the Opera Bastille. Since 2009 Martin Lebel is Music Director of the Karlovy Vary Philharmonic (Czech Republic).