CONDUCTOR

Music Director of the Gangneung Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea and Associate Conductor of Tokyo Philharmonic, he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, with which he carried out two tours to Asia and Japan in 2022 and 2023. He was invited by the Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in 2024 and in 2025.

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

He conducted Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Vladivostok Festival with the Mariinsky Opera, Mozart’s The Magic Flute with Accademia della Scala, where he also conducted a concert (Bach and Ligeti). At Korean National Opera he conducted Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, and Verdi’s Don Carlo. In 2013 he made his European debut in Lecce with Verdi’s La Traviata, directed by Lindsay Kemp.

With RAI Ochestra Sinfonica Nazionale Min Chung conducted a tribute concert to the film scores of Stanley Kubrick, broadcast by RAI5 TV, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Kammerorchester, the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra of Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Orchestra of Martina Franca, Orchestra Machiavelli in Verona, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein. In 2010 he made his debut at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, at the 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, Daegu BBC Orchestra, Sejong Nanoom Orchestra, as well as several youth orchestras in Japan and South Korea.

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