Photo: Byungsoo KimShiyeon Sung
Busan, South Korea; based in Berlin
Shiyeon Sung was born in Busan and began as a pianist, winning youth competitions.
- Winner, Solti Conductors' Competition
- Winner, Mahler Competition, Bamberg
- Boston Symphony assistant from 2007
- Eighth woman to lead the Concertgebouw
- Mahler 5 for Decca
“Her strong technical skills and attention to detail with a clear, insistent beat allowed her sweeping style to coax as well as lead.”
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She studied conducting with Rolf Reuter at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, then with Jorma Panula at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. In quick succession she won the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors' Competition and the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg. In 2007 she became assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The Seoul Philharmonic created an associate conductor post for her, and from 2014 to 2017 she led the Gyeonggi Philharmonic, recording Mahler's Fifth Symphony with it for Decca. She is the first woman conductor from South Korea on the podiums of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since 2023 she has been principal guest conductor of the Auckland Philharmonia.
In Portland she conducts Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11, "The Year 1905," and Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody with Marc-André Hamelin.
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