Edmond Saveniers graduated from the Lemmens Institute of Music, Louvain, specializing in organ and Music education and earned the Lemmens-Tinel prize. (Virtuosity – organ and composition) He received the first Prize for Orchestra conducting and the Higher diploma for Orchestra conducting at the Flemish Music conservatory of Antwerp. Since then he also received the Annie Rutzky Prize. His most important professors were Kamile D’Hooghe (organ), Matty Niel and Willem Kersters (composition) and Fernand Terby (orchestra conducting)

He began in 1979 as conductor of the Flemish Chamber Opera of Antwerp and from 1980 until 1988 he was employed by the opera houses of Antwerp and Ghent and conducted and assisted with radio and television filming productions for the BRTN, the NOS, the ORF and Japanese television. He conducted ballets with the National Ballet in the Music Theatre in Amsterdam and directed the opera of Coburg. In 1990-91 he made three tours in Japan including a concert for the crowning of the Japanese Emperor in 1990.

Edmond Saveniers teaches orchestra conducting and orchestra ensemble-playing at the Lemmens Institute in Louvain and leads the Symphony Orchestra of the Institute. As professor of Orchestra conducting he is regularly invited to the conservatories of Maastricht and Tilburg, Holland. He conducts the USO of the K.U.Leuven as well. He has done concert tours with this group in Hungary, Denmark, France, England, Czech Republic, Italy, Holland and Germany.

Studying the TEMPI by Beethoven brought him a new vision as to the practical performance of this music.  In light of this new idea he presented in 1995 the newly discovered chamber music version of the 4th clavier concerto in Tilburg/Netherlands as a world premiere. In 1996 he founded the orchestra Marsyas where he can further build up and concretise his vision for orchestra music. He recently recorded a CD, under the Phaedra label, of exclusively Belgian music, in Brno.

He has experience conducting many genres. He has conducted opera, operetta, musical, symphonic music, music for movies, oratorio and concerto’s. These concerts were performed with modern as well as with authentic instruments. His repertoire stretches from baroque to the most avant-garde.