BUSAN, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Maestro Chung Myung-whun, recently appointed music director of Italy’s Teatro alla Scala, described the new role as the culmination of a long-standing relationship with the famed opera house, likening it to a marriage. “We have maintained a lovely relationship for the past 36 years and suddenly gotten married, to [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Renowned South Korean conductor Chung Myung-whun was appointed Monday as the new music director of Italy’s Teatro alla Scala, news reports said. Chung, 72, is the first Asian to assume the role at the famed opera house, based in Milan, the Associated Press reported. Chung will succeed Riccardo Chailly [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean conductor Chung Myung-whun became La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra’s conductor emeritus, the orchestra has said. The Italian orchestra gave Chung “the title of Emeritus Director,” it said on its Facebook page, in order to “seal the friendship that has been linked to Maestro Chung Myung-whun for almost thirty-five [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — For award-winning South Korean conductor Chung Myung-whun, playing the piano is a way to express love through an instrument he has cherished since childhood. “One thing that has not changed (over time) is that the piano remains my first love,” the maestro said in a news conference in Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is to join the Bruckner Linz Music Festival that will open in September in Linz, Austria, as the “guest of honor,” organizers said. A total of around 500 artists from the country’s six major music organizations including the KBS Symphony Orchestra, Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra and The National [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Maestro Chung Myung-whun said Tuesday he will step down as the music director of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) amid allegations of embezzlement and a sexual harassment scandal surrounding the orchestra’s previous chief conductor. In a letter to SPO members, Chung said it was “regrettable” to leave his post, [...]