CONDUCTOR

Music Director of the Gangneug Philharmonic Orchestra (South Korea), Associate Conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic, he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, with which he toured twice in Asia in 2019 and in Japan in 2023. 

In 2024 he was invited by Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, in 2025 he is reinvited in Firenze by Maggio Musicale Orchestra and in Tokyo with Tokyo Philharmonic. 

In September 2023 Min Chung was in Tokyo and Osaka with Gangneug Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2022 he was invited by Tokyo Academy Orchestra for concerts dedicated to Schumann, Brahms and Berlioz, soloists Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, William Chiquito on the occasion of Martha Argerich Festival in Tokyo. With The Vietnam National Symphony, he conducted Tchaikovsky symphonies at Hanoi Opera House. 

He was invited to conduct the first performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Vladivostok Festival with Mariinsky Opera. He had been invited by Accademia della Scala for Mozart’s The Magic Flute where he was reinvited for a concert (Bach and Ligeti). With Korean National Opera he conducted Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Verdi’s Don Carlo. In 2013 he had his European debut in Lecce with Verdi’s La Traviata, production by Lindsay Kemp. 

He has conducted RAI National Symphony Orchestra (in a tribute concert to the soundtracks of Stanley Kubrick’s films, broadcast by RAI5 TV), Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Kammerorchester,  Orchestra of Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto,  Orchestra of Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Orchestra di Martina Franca, Orchestra Machiavelli in Verona, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss a.R. In 2010 he made his debut at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, at Seoul Arts Center and at Carnegie Hall in New York. 

In South Korea he conducted Busan Philharmonic, Ditto Festival Orchestra, “Miracle of Music” Orchestra, Daegu Opera Orchestra, and then Daegu BBC Orchestra, Sejong Nanoom Orchestra. In Japan he was invited by Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, Chiba Youth Orchestra, Senzoku Gakuen Orchestra, ACROS Fukuoka Youth Orchestra, in China by Hangzhou Philharmonic. His first engagements were in South Korea with Aloysius Symphony Orchestra in Busan, composed mainly of musicians from disadvantaged backgrounds. 

Born in Saarbrücken, Germany, he studied double bass, violin, piano in Paris. In Seoul he attended Seoul National University, graduating in German literature and violin.