June-Sung Park

June-Sung Park was born in 1982 in Seoul, South Korea. He is the first prize winner of the Aram Khachaturian International Conducting Competition 2016 in Yerevan, Armenia. In this competition, June-Sung Park also won the three special prizes, “Orchestra Award” that went to who gained a majority of votes of musicians in the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, “The Interpretation Prize” and “Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra Special Prize”.

 

Recently he studied unter Daniele Gatti at the “Accademia Musicale Chigiana” in Italy. He awarded a scholarship and “Diploma di Merito” from Daniele Gatti.

 

In 2015 June-Sung Park won the third prize at the 6th International Conducting Competition Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest. He participated in Paavo Järvi’s Masterclass at the Pärnu Music Festival 2015 and his performance in the Masterclass’s Gala Concert was described as “outstanding” in the english arts journal “The Arts Desk”. In 2013 he was selected as one of 6 young conductors for Myung-Whun Chung’s Masterclass with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. He has taken part several times in South Korea’s Incheon Music Festival, continuing his studies there under Myung-Whun Chung.

 

In 2016 he assisted Julien Salemkour in productions of Ludwig van Beethoven “Fidelio” with Expat Philharmonic Orchestra and of Verdi “Requiem” with Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock. He also assisted him in recording R.Wagner Tristan & Isolde with R.Wagner Tristan & Isolde in Germany. He was Assistant Conductor of Daegu International Opera Festival 2014 in South Korea. He assisted David Cowan and Klaus Sallmann on the projects of Georges Bizet “Les pêcheurs de perles” and Giacomo Puccini “Turandot”.

 

Plans for 2017/18 seasons include engagements with State Youth Orchestra of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia and with Daegu Symphony Orchestra in South Korea as guest conductor.

 

June-Sung Park began playing the piano at the age of four. He later studied piano at the State University for Music and the Performing Arts in Stuttgart, Germany. He followed this with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in orchestra conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Austria, graduating in 2010 with great success. He studied under Mark Stringer, Uros Lajovic, Leopold Hager, Jorma Panula and Christian Ehwald.