French conductor Benjamin Levy has been appointed Music Director of the Orchestre Régional de Cannes Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, with a contract of three years. Levy studied in Lyon and Paris as well as at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen (USA) with David Zinman, Yuri Temirkanov and Jorma Panula. He was the assistant of Marc Minkowski in many concerts and operatic productions and currently he is the Music Director of the chamber orchestra Pelléas, a young, independent orchestra, founded and managed by the musicians themselves. In Cannes he is the successor to Wolfgang Doerner who joined the orchestra in 2013.