Shi-Yeon Sung

This is a Korean name; the family name is Sung.

Shi-Yeon Sung (born 1975, Busan) is a South Korean classical conductor. She is the associate conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic. In 2006, she became the first woman to win first prize in the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors Competition.[1] In 2007, she won second prize in Bamberg's Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition (no first prize was given that year). That year, she became the first female assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a post she held through 2010.[2] Among the orchestras she has conducted are the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra[3] and the National Symphony Orchestra.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Frankfurter Museums-Gesellschaft e.V., Stadler Kemnitz Sahm. "International Conductors’ Competition". dirigentenwettbewerb-solti.de. Retrieved 2015-04-29.
  2. ↑ Amanda Angel, "Top Five Women Conductors on the Rise," WQXR, September 4, 2013, URL=http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/316314-top-five-women-conductors-rise/
  3. ↑ Official biography, URL=http://shiyeonsung.com/biography/
  4. ↑ http://www.wolftrap.org/press-and-media/news_and_announcements/performance-news/summer2015/nso-sarahchang.aspx
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