The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) is a South Korean orchestra based in

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. Founded in 1948, it is one of the oldest orchestras in

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. Its first foreign tour came on a 1965 trip to

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, followed by performances in

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in 1977, the United States in 1982, 1986, and 1996, a 1988 tour of

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before the

Seoul Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

that year, and a 1997 performance in

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. The Philharmonic is an incorporated foundation since 2005.

Overview

Founded in January 1948, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra has a longer history than any other Korean orchestra. In February 1948, the orchestra held its opening concert, conducted by Seong-Tae Kim. In October of the same year, the Seoul Philharmonic Society was formed to provide support for the orchestra. The society published the music monthly ''Philharmonie'' in the following year. After a subscription concert in the Seoul Civic Hall on July 25, 1950, the orchestra had to suspend its activities due to the outbreak of the Korean War, but resumed performance with the name of the Naval Symphony Orchestra, five months later. Its first foreign tour came on a 1965 trip to Japan, followed by performances in Southeast Asia in 1977, the United States in 1982, 1986, and 1996, a 1988 tour of Europe before the Seoul Olympics that year, and a 1997 performance in Beijing. The Philharmonic is an incorporated foundation since 2005. In August 1957, the Seoul Metropolitan Council passed "The Seoul Metropolitan Ordinances to Install a City-Run Orchestra," and the Naval Symphony Orchestra became the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the first Korean orchestra funded by a government. The launching ceremony for the orchestra with triple winds took place in the city council's chamber. Saeng-Ryo Kim was appointed its first Chief Conductor. Since then, the SPO has helped the symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky take root as a basic repertoire in the Korean music community. Through these concerts, Korean musicians such as Kyung-Sook Lee, Kun-Woo Paik, Kyung-Wha Chung, Dong-Suk Kang, and Myung-Whun Chung attained increased recognition. With the aim of growing into a major orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra was re-launched as an incorporated foundation on June 1, 2005, and appointed Myung-Whun Chung as its Music Director (he had been Artistic Advisor in 2005). With Chung, in 2014, the Seoul Philharmonic made its debut at the

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. The orchestra focuses on interaction with modern music. According to the ''

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'', the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra "has the reputation for championing more new music than any other major Asian orchestra". It adopted the composer-in-residence system for the first time in Korea when it was re-launched as an incorporated foundation and welcomed

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as its first Composer-in-Residence. Chin is the founder-director of a series of modern music titled Ars Nova since 2006. It has featured conductors such as

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, Susanna Mälkki,

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, among others. Until 2011, the series had presented around 100 Korean premieres - half of them being Asian premieres - of works by leading 20th- and 21st-century composers including

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and

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. In 2009, the series collaborated with

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, the Paris-based center for electronic music. Korea. Since 2011, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra has commissioned or co-commissioned orchestral works by composers such as

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and

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for the 'Ars Nova' series. Additionally, several commissions by major Korean composers have been premiered. The orchestra signed a contract with Deutsche Grammophon (DG) in 2011 to release 10 albums over five years, the first time that an Asian orchestra has signed such an extensive contract. An album with music by

was named an

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and a BBC Music Magazine Award winner in the Contemporary Music category. Myung-Whun Chung was the orchestra's music director from 2005 until his resignation in December 2015. During his tenure, the orchestra became the first Asian orchestra to sign a major-label record deal, and gave its first performance at

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in August 2014. In September 2016, the orchestra announced the appointments of

as its principal guest conductor and of

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as conductor-in-residence, effective January 2017, with initial contracts of 3 years. In April 2019, the orchestra announced the appointment of

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as its next music director, effective January 2020, with an initial contract of 3 years. Vänskä concluded his music directorship of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra at the close of 2022. In September 2022, the orchestra announced the appointment of

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as its next music director, effective January 2024, with an initial contract of 5 years.

Conductors

;Principal Conductor & Artistic Directors * Saeng-Ryeo Kim (1948–1961) * Man-Bok Kim (1961–1969) * Gyeong-Su Won (1970–1971) * Jae-Dong Jeong (1974–1990) * Eun-Seong Park (1990–1991) * Gyeong-Su Won (1994–1996) *

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(2000–2002) * Seung Kwak (2003) * Myung-Whun Chung (2005–2015) *

(2020–2022) *

(designate, effective January 2024)

Principal Guest Conductor

(2017–2020)

Conductor-In-Residence

(2017–2021) ; ; Full-time Conductor *Jae-Dong Jeong (1971–1974) ; Artistic Supervisor *Seung Kwak (2002) ; Associate Conductor *Eun-Seong Park (1984–1989) *

Shi-Yeon Sung Shi-Yeon Sung (born 1975, in Busan) is a South Korean classical conductor. In 2006, she became the first woman to win first prize in the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors' Competition. In 2007, she won second prize in Bamberg's Gustav Mah ...

(2009–2013) *Su-Yeol Choi (2014–2017) *Wilson Ng (2019–present) *David Yi (2020–present) ;Composer-in-Residence *

(2006–2018, also Artistic Director of ''Ars Nova'' series)

Presidents

*Pal-Seong Lee (2005–2008) *Jooho Kim (2009–2012) *Hyeon-Jeong Park (2013–2014) *Heung-Sik Choi (2015–2018) *Eun-Kyung Kang (2018–present)

Recordings

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: Symphonic Fantasia "Korea" (Excerpt) / Four Korean Folk Songs, conducted by Jae-Dong Jeong, Sung-Eum Records LP 1983. *

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/ Yoon-Joo Jeong: Gayageum Concerto theme by Hwang Byung-Ki (with Seung-Hi Yang), conducted by Jae-Dong Jeong, Seoul Records LP/Compact Cassette 1987. *

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: Symphony in D minor /

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: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Hye-Kyeong Lee), conducted by Jae-Dong Jeong, SKC CD 1989. *

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(version for orchestra) /

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: First & Second Intermezzos from

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: Solveig's Song from

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: Andante from Divertimento K.136 (125a) /

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: Dance of Comedians from

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: Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Menuetto from Symphony No. 39 / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Andante cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 (version for string orchestra) / Edward Elgar: Allegro piacevole from Serenade for Strings /

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: Allegro spiritoso from Symphony No. 83, conducted by Gyeong-Su Won, Samsung Nices CD 1995. (Encore collection from subscription concerts during the year of 1994) *

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: Violin Concerto No. 1 (with Ho-Young Pi) /

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravian traditional music, Moravia and his native Bohemia, following t ...

Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments. These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...

(with Young-Hoon Song), conducted by Chi-Yong Chung, Seoul Arts Center CD 2001. *

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: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6, conducted by Myung-whun Chung, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra CD 2006. *

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: Symphony No. 1 & Academic Festival Overture, conducted by Myung-whun Chung, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra CD 2007. *Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, conducted by Myung-whun Chung, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra CD 2008. *

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, conducted by Myung-whun Chung, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra CD 2009. *

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: La mer /

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: Ma mère l'oye & La valse, conducted by Myung-whun Chung,

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2011. *Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2, conducted by Myung-whun Chung, Universal Music Korea 2011. (as a bonus disk of 33-CDs boxset 'Myung-whun Chung: DG Recordings 1991-2010') *

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: Symphony No. 1, conducted by Myung-whun Chung, Deutsche Grammophon 2011. *Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (with Myung Joo Lee,

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, National Chorus of Korea, Seoul Metropolitan Chorus, Seoul Motet Choir & Grande Opera Choir), conducted by Myung-whun Chung, Deutsche Grammophon 2012. *Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 / Sergei Rachmaninoff:

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, conducted by Myung-whun Chung, Deutsche Grammophon 2012. *Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 (with Sunwook Kim) & Symphony No. 5, conducted by Myung-whun Chung, Deutsche Grammophon 2013. *Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (with

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, Songmi Yang, Yosep Kang, Samuel Youn, National Chorus of Korea, Seoul Motet Choir & Anyang Civic Chorale), conducted by Myung-whun Chung, Deutsche Grammophon 2013. *

: Piano Concerto (with Sunwook Kim), Cello Concerto (with

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) & Šu for sheng and orchestra (with Wu Wei), conducted by Myung-whun Chung, Deutsche Grammophon 2014. *Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9, conducted by Myung-whun Chung, Deutsche Grammophon 2014. *Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5, conducted by Myung-whun Chung, Deutsche Grammophon 2015. *Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture Leonore No. 3 /

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: Symphony No. 3 / Seong-Hwan Choi: Arirang, conducted by Myung-whun Chung, Deutsche Grammophon 2017. (from opening concert of the Lotte Concert Hall, Seoul) *

Isang Yun Isang Yun, also spelled Yun I-sang (17 September 1917 – 3 November 1995), was a Korean-born composer who made his later career in West Germany. Early life and education Yun was born in Sancheong (Sansei), Korea under Japanese rule, Chōsen ...

: Legend for orchestra 'Silla', Violin Concerto III (with Sueye Park), Chamber Symphony I, conducted by Osmo Vänskä, BIS Records 2022.

References

External links

Official Korean-language homepage of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

Official English-language homepage of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
''Yonhap News'', January 13, 2006.

''The Korea Times'', March 31, 2005.
"Das Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra erfindet sich neu"
neue musikzeitung, 6/09 - 58. Jahrgang.

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