Shin-ik Hahm

This is a Korean name; the family name is Hahm.
Shin-ik Hahm
Hangul 함신익
Hanja 咸信益[1]
Revised Romanization Ham Sinik
McCune–Reischauer Ham Sinik

Shinik Hahm (born 1958)[1] is a Korean American conductor and a professor in the Practice of Conducting and Music Director of the Yale Philharmonia.[2] Hahm has led North American, South American, European, and Far Eastern orchestras. Recent appearances include debuts in Geneva, Switzerland, and Besançon, France; at Bolshoi Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia, with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra; and reengagement with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at Disney Hall. He is an active opera conductor and has led productions with the Silesian National Opera in Poland, has collaborated with musicians including Salvatore Accardo, Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Yefim Bronfman and has recorded with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra for Vision and Britstar.[3]

Biography

Hahm grew up in South Korea in a poor family as the son of a pastor. He studied Music Education,College of Education at Konkuk University in Seoul, and left for the United States in 1983 with US$400.[3] He studied conducting at Rice University and the Eastman School of Music. Since 2006 he has also collaborated with Mexican orchestras. After a debut with the Mexico's National Symphony Orchestra and Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, Hahm was re-engaged for coming seasons. Hahm served as the conductor for the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra from 1995 through 2000.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "대전시립교향악단", 《예술지식 백과》, South Korea: Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, retrieved 2011-09-26
  2. ↑ "Maestro Hahm Shin-ik's faculty profile". Yale. 2010-03-07. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
  3. 1 2 Jane Han (2010-03-03). "Maestro Hahm Shin-ik's Humble Journey to Fame". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
  4. ↑ http://greenbaysymphony.org/about/

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Preceded by
Dmitri Kitayenko		 Principal Conductor, KBS Symphony Orchestra
2010–2012 		Succeeded by
Yoel Levi
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