CONDUCTOR

Music Director of the Gangneung Philharmonic Orchestra (South Korea) since January 2022, Associate Conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic, he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, with whom he toured Asia in 2019 and Japan in 2023.

In September 2023, Min Chung was invited to Tokyo and Osaka with the Gangneug Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2022, he was invited by Tokyo Academy Orchestra for two programmes dedicated to Schumann, Brahms and Berlioz, soloists Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky and William Chiquito at the Martha Argerich Festival in Tokyo, as well as by The Vietnam National Symphony for a concert dedicated to Tchaikovsky at the Hanoi Opera House. In 2024, he was invited by the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

He conducted the first performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Vladivostok Festival with the Mariinsky Opera. He was invited by Accademia della Scala for Mozart’s The Magic Flute at Teatro alla Scala where he was invited again for a concert (Bach and Ligeti). With the 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.

Min Chung conducted Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI (in a tribute concert to the soundtracks of Stanley Kubrick’s films, broadcasted by RAI 5 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 of Martina Franca Festival, Machiavelli Orchestra in Verona, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss a.R.

In South Korea, he was invited by the Busan Philharmonic, Ditto Festival Orchestra, “Miracle of Music” Orchestra, Daegu Opera Orchestra, Daego BBC Orchestra, Sejong Nanoom Orchestra. In Japan he was invited by the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, the Chiba Youth Orchestra, the Senzoku Gakuen Orchestra, the ACROS Fukuoka Youth Orchestra, and in China by the Hangzhou Philharmonic.

Born in Saarbrücken, Germany, Min Chung studied double bass, violin and piano in Paris. In Seoul he attended Seoul National University, graduating in German literature and violin. His first engagements as a conductor were in South Korea with the Aloysius Symphony Orchestra in Busan, made up mainly by musicians from disadvantaged backgrounds. His first major concerts were at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Seoul Arts Center and New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2010.