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Hailed as “a spiritual conductor” by Le Monde, Maestro Myung-Whun Chung is one of the most respected conductors of our time today. Following his studies at Mannes College and Te Juilliard School in New York, he became Carlo Maria Giulini’s assistant in 1979 at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and two years later was named Associate Con- ductor. Since then, he has conducted virtually all of the most prominent Eu- ropean and American orchestras, as well as major opera houses. From 1984 to 1990, Myung-Whun Chung served as Music Director of the Saarbrücken Radio Orchestra in Germany. From 1989 to 1994, he served as Music Director of the Paris Opéra, from 1997 to 2005 he was the principal conductor of Rome’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra and from 2001 to 2010 he served as the Special Artistic Advisor of the Tokyo Phil- harmonic Orchestra. Since 2000, he has been the Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmo- nique of the Radio France, Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and Music Director of the Asia Philhar- monic Orchestra which he founded in 1995. In 2011 he was appointed as the Principal Guest Conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle. He was awarded many prestigious prizes worldwide, among them the Premio Abbiati and the Toscanini prize in Italy, Artist of the year, Vic- toires de la Musique and the Commendeur de Legion d’Honneur in France, the top Record Academy Prize in Japan, and Kumkuan prize in Korea. Recently in 2013, he was bestowed Italy’s Una Vita Nella Musica Award (Lifetime Music Prize). As an exclusive artist of the famed recording company Deutsche Gram- mophon Gesellschaf since 1984, his recordings have garnered numer- ous prestigious awards worldwide. Continuing his collaboration his recording company, in 2011, Maestro Chung and Deutsche Grammo- phon established a 5-year exclusive contract with the Seoul Philhar- monic Orchestra. Long committed to humanitarian causes, Maestro Chung has launched several music programs dedicated to youth development. As a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, he traveled to Benin in 2010 where he pledged his time to programs in HIV/AIDS, water sanitation, and education. Trough the Miracle Of Music Foundation which he founded in 2008, Maestro Chung continues to bring together the worlds of humanitarian causes and music. conductor myung-Whun chung