Conductor: PARK Eun-Seong (Korea)
Park, Eun-Seong graduated from the Seoul National University, College of Music and joined the National Symphony Orchestra as a first violinist. In 1970 he made his conducting debut with Korea National Symphony Orchestra. Discovering his strong talent and proclivity for conducting, he moved on to full-time studies at the renowned Vienna Hochschule for Music and Performing Arts. As guest conductor he worked with Korea’s major orchestra including KBS, Seoul City, Korean Symphonies on about twenty operas and ballets. Park was invited with the Seoul Junior Phil to the Centennial Festival of the Carnegie Hall in 1991 and to conduct the opera at the ‘1996 Atlanta Olympic Games’ Festival. He was invited to conduct in the USA, Japan, Austria, Czeck, Hungary and served as music director and conductor of Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. He is currently a professor of the college of Music at the Hanyang University.
Orchestra: The Puchon Philharmonic Orchestra
Founded in April 1988, the Puchon Philharmonic Orchestra(PPO) is the best orchestra which is continuously establishing a strong reputation as a leading orchestra in Korea with well qualified musicians and strict conductor, Lim Hun Joung while showing their audience excellent performance, analysis of the music and their unique scholastic characters. The PPO is performing the best music with the delicate and dynamic ensemble through so many concerts such as the subscription concerts, specially planned concerts and consistently developing their musical level through their wide range of repertoires while continuous searching for new music that no other orchestra can follow. But the PPO is more known for upholding their firm philosophy for music, which is shown in their scholastic appearance. Showing consistent interests in modern music, the PPO is giving a fresh shock to the existing musical field which is fallen into deep mannerism through the various specially planned concerts such as “The Night of Bartók(1993)”, “Bach and Schönberg(1994)”, “The Second Viennese(1994)”, “The Concert for 50th anniversary for death of Webern(1995)”.
The PPO challenging to perform the complete Mahler’s symphonies for the first time in Korea last year is developing into a time sense of popular orchestra by giving musically mature performance to the lovers of music while upholding its basic musical philosophy through sound performance and extensive repertoires.
Thus, the PPO which made a firm basis in Korea, has been officially invited to participate in “Penderecki Festival 1998”, which is the one of Music Festival “Kracow 2000” in Poland and therefore, the all members of the PPO are looking forward to showing their own musical character and sound to the music lovers of world.
*updated November 1997