Leoš Svárovský(b. 1961) studied flute at the Prague Conservatoire and conducting at the Academy of Music in Prague, where he was the last student of the renowned conductor Václav Neumann.

His career highlights include serving as the Chief Conductor of the Janáček Philharmonic and the Brno Philharmonic, the Artistic Director of the State Opera Prague, and touring with the Czech Philharmonic in the USA and with the Slovak Philharmonicin Japan.

He has performed across Europe, the USA, and Japan, collaborating with many esteemed orchestras. He has also appeared at major music festivals, including the Prague Spring Festival and the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest.

Among the orchestras he has worked with are the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Staatskapelle Dresden, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow, among many others. He has collaborated with renowned soloists such as Arto Norasand Rudolf Buchbinder, among others.

Currently, Svárovský serves as Chief Conductor of the Aichi Central Symphony Orchestra in Nagoya and Principal Guest Conductorof the Slovak Philharmonic. He is also a frequent guest conductor with leading Czech ensembles, including the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Prague Philharmonia.

Since 2000, he has taught conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he has served as professor since October 2018.

Following the example of Lucerne, Switzerland, Tongyeong Festival Orchestra (TFO) was created to enhance the musical spectrum of the Tongyeong International Music Festival, and to serve as an artistic ambassador for Tongyeong City, a UNESCO Creative City of Music. Since its first edition in 2002, the festival has been striving to assemble outstanding musicians to build its own “Ensemble TIMF” - specialized in contemporary music. Together with members of Munich Chamber Orchestra and other musicians from abroad, conductor Alexander Liebreich formed the first Tongyeong Festival Orchestra in 2011. Ever since, the orchestra has been assembled annually for performances in Tongyeong, Korea and overseas.

Among the Festival Orchestra musicians are members of the Munich Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Zurich Opera, Kremerata Baltica, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, DC, Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and many others.

Tongyeong Festival Orchestra regularly works with conductors such as Heinz Holliger, Christoph Poppen, Michael Sanderling, Christoph Eschenbach, Stefan Soltesz, Ken-David Masur, Stefan Asbury, Alexander Liebreich, Christian Vázquez, Sascha Goetzel, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Markus Stenz, Dalia Stasevska, David Robertson and Stanislav Kochanovsky.

In 2017, the orchestra presented its first opera performance with Isang Yun's ‹Dream of Liu Tung›. Later in the year, the orchestra went on a European tour, presenting music by Yun and Ravel in Germany, Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. In 2015 and 2018, Tongyeong Festival Orchestra partnered with Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa (Japan). Musicians from Korea, Japan and China gathered for an Asian tour and thus formed a musical bridge between the three countries. In 2019, the orchestra performed Richard Wagner’s opera ‹Walküre› at the Tongyeong International Music Festival and Seong-Jin Cho & Friends Festival with Pianist Seong-Jin Cho. In 2023, the Royal Northern Sinfonia from the UK participated as members, and in 2025, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra from Switzerland joined as TFO.