Min Chung Music Director of the Gangneung Symphony Orchestra in South Korea since January 2022. Maestro Chung is also Associate Conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic, and was recently appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Haydn Orchestra, with whom he toured Asia with great success in 2019. He made his debut as a conductor in 2007 in Korea with the Aloysius Symphony Orchestra in Busan, an orchestra composed mainly of musicians from disadvantaged backgrounds, performing in prestigious halls such as Carnegie Hall in 2010.
He has collaborated with important institutions such as the National Symphony Orchestra of Rai, the Wiener Kammerorchester, the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, the Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss a. R., the "Miracle of Music" Orchestra, the Daegu Opera Orchestra, the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, the Chiba Youth Orchestra and the Hangzhou Philharmonic. Born in Saarbrücken, he moved very young to Paris where he studied double bass, violin and piano. He then attended Seoul National University, graduating in German literature and violin. He currently lives in Paris.
