Myung-whun Chung
Chung Myung- whun ( born January 22, 1953 in Seoul) is a South Korean pianist and conductor.
Life
Chung gave his first piano concert at the age of seven years in Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra Seoul. After the family had emigrated to the U.S., he began his training in New York at the Mannes School of Music (piano and conducting ). In 1970 he won the competition of the New York Times, 1974, he was awarded the second prize at the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition.
Chung and his two sisters Chung Myung- wha (cello) and Chung Kyung- wha (violin ) occurred since 1967 as a trio concerts, 1971, he made his conducting debut with the Korean Symphony Orchestra. 1975 Chung was his conducting studies at the Juilliard School Juilliard 's Director of Precollege Orchestra in continuation. His career as a pianist had already led him to concerts in New York, London and Berlin. In 1978, he finished his education and became assistant to Carlo Maria Giulini at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
1981 Chung left the United States and took over in the following years various tasks as a conductor in Europe. So he headed from 1984 to 1990 the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, with which he premiered, among others Yun I- sangs 3 Symphony in 1985. From 1990 he was at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, where he conducted the opening performance of the first season on March 17, 1990, Les Troyens. With the orchestra of the opera house he brought here in 1994 Olivier Messiaen's Concert à quatre, which the composer had dedicated to him and the orchestra, premiered. In the same year he had to resign his post after clashes with the management of the opera.
In addition, he was from 1987 to 1992 Principal Guest Conductor at the Teatro Comunale in Florence and made his debut in 1986 at the Metropolitan Opera with Simon Boccanegra. He also worked on the operas of San Francisco, Monte Carlo and Geneva and since 1997 Honorary Conductor of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
In 1997 he became chief conductor of the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra, and since 2000 he has held the post of Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and since 2001 Artistic Advisor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. 2006 Chung was appointed chief conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Guest performances lead him to the world's major opera houses and concert halls. 2011 there was a fierce debate about the amount of his salary of 2 billion won for the year 2010. He finally agreed after a meal with the Seoul Mayor Park Won -soon, so that his salary was reduced in 2011 to 700 million won. Since the 2012/13 season Chung is principal guest conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden.
UNESCO recognized its commitment to humanitarian and ecological issues, by 1995 "Man of the Year" named him, for the United Nations, he worked as a special envoy on Drugs 1992-1997. In his native Korea, he was appointed the first Cultural Ambassador in history; Since April 2008 he supported the work of UNICEF as a "Goodwill Ambassador ".
Chung has three sons, said his youngest son tries in the footsteps of his father.
Disco Graphical Notes
1990 Chung was awarded an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, now he also works with other companies together and was able to document his work on currently (2008) around 80 publications, including: Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony and éclairs sur l' au - delà ...; Giuseppe Verdi: Otello, Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Shostakovich 's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District; Antonín Dvořák 3rd, 6th, 7th and 8th Symphony and Serenade for String Orchestra, Op 22, Carl Nielsen, The six symphonies and the violin, flute and clarinet concert and recordings with Cecilia Bartoli, Bryn Terfel, James Galway and other.