Shiyeon Sung is a real trailblazer of her profession. She is the first female conductor out of South Korea to make the leap to the podium of internationally renowned orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
When she was appointed assistant conductor at the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2007, her reputation as one of the most exciting emerging talents on the international music circuit was already secure: shortly before, she had won the International Conductors’ Competition Sir Georg Solti and the Gustav Mahler Conductors’ Competition. Since 2023, she has been the Auckland Philharmonia’s Principal Guest Conductor.
In 2024, Shiyeon Sung will return to the London Royal Philharmonic and again to the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. She will make her debut with orchestras such as the Pacific Symphony or the Adelaide Symphony and in 2025, she will conduct the MSO for the first time.
Born in Pusan, Shiyeon Sung won various prizes as a pianist. From 2001 to 2006, she studied orchestral conducting at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and continued her education with advanced conducting studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
