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About Hankyeol
Korean Conductor Hankyeol Yoon is the winner of the 2023 Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award. As a result, Hankyeol will make his official debut at the Salzburger Festspiele in August 2024 conducting the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. He will also debut with Mozarteumorchester, Fondazione Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and at the George Enescu International Festival, and will return to the Korean National Symphony.
Highlights of the 2022/23 season included debuts with Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Bern Symphony Orchestra, and Busan Philharmonic Orchestra and a return to KBS Symphony Orchestra for concerts in Tokyo.
Hankyeol was the youngest ever recipient of the Neeme Järvi Prize at the 2019 Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy and was also a finalist at the 2020 Georg Solti Competition and 2021 Deutscher Dirigentenpreis respectively. As a composer Hankyeol has been recognised at several European competitions.
Born in Daegu, South Korea but calling Munich his home since 2011, Hankyeol studied conducting, composing, and piano performance at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.