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Myung-Whun Chung
Myung-Whun Chung began his musical career as a pianist and won the second prize at the Tchaikovsky piano competition in Moscow in 1974. He became Carlo Maria Giulini's assistant in 1979 at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and two years later named the Associate Conductor. He has conducted virtually all the prominent European and American orchestras and made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1986 with Simon Boccanegra. From 1989 to 1994, Myung-Whun Chung served as the Music Director of the Paris Opera.
He has been the Special Artistic Advisor of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra since 2001 and was as awarded the highest Record Academy Prize by Japanese critics following his performances in Japan. From 1997 he has been the Music Director of the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra, from 2000 the Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, from 2001 the Special Artistic Advisor of Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and from 2006 the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.
Many of his numerous recordings have won international prizes and awards. These include Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony, Verdi’s Otello, Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth with the Orchestre de l’Opera Bastille; a series of Dvorak’s symphonies and serenades with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, a series dedicated to the great sacred music with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, including the award-winning recording of Durufle’s and Faure’s Requiems with Cecilia Bartoli and Bryn Terfel.
He has been the recipient of many honours and prizes for his artistic work, including the Premio Abbiati and the Arturo Toscanini prize in Italy and the Legion d’Honneur (1992) in France; in 1991, the Association of French Theatres and Music Critics named him “Artist of the year” and in 1995 he won three times the prize “Victoire de la Musique.”
