Sung Shi-yeon

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 성시연
Revised
Romanization 		Seong Si-yeon
McCune-
Reischauer 		Sŏng Siyŏn

Sung Shi-yeon (* 1975 in Busan , South Korea ) is a Korean conductor .

Life

She received her first piano lessons at the age of four. At the age of eight she won the city piano competition in Busan and two years later the national youth competition SAMIC. She gave her first public solo evening at the age of 13.

After successfully completing the Seoul Arts High School, she began studying with Eckart Heiligers in Zurich and then with László Simon and Erich Andreas at the Berlin University of the Arts .

2001–2006 she studied Kapellmeister and orchestral conducting in Rolf Reuter's master class at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin . In 2002 she made her conducting debut in Berlin with the opera Die Zauberflöte by Mozart. Since then, conducting at the Görlitz, Rostock, Neukölln, Koblenz and Potsdam theaters. She has worked with well-known orchestras such as the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra , the Bergische Symphoniker , the State Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra.

From February 2003 to 2006 Sung Shi-yeon was chief conductor of the Cappella Academica, the symphony orchestra at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In January 2004 Sung Shi-yeon was accepted into the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council . In the same year she won the Solingen conductor competition for women.

In September 2006 she was the first woman to take first place in the “Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition ”, one of the most important awards for young conductors. Sung Shi-yeon also received the “Ingrid zu Solms Culture Prize” 2006 from the foundation of the same name. This charitable and scientific foundation honors, among other things, the cultural achievements of women every year. In April 2007 she won the 2nd prize (if the first prize was not awarded) in the International Gustav Mahler Competition in Bamberg. In October 2007 she was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra by James Levine .

In 2009 she received the ZONTA Music Prize of the Union of German Zonta Clubs in Heidelberg, worth 2,000 euros .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BAZ , edition B of 17./18. January 2009, p. 5
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Sung is the family name here, Shi-yeon is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Sung, Shi-yeon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Busan