ALBUMMahler: Symphony No. 9 in D Major (Live)Myung-Whun Chung & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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ALBUMRavel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Boléro, Ma mère l'Oye, Le Tombeau de CouperinMyung-Whun Chung, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Roger Muraro
ALBUMBrahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 & 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 118Sunwook Kim, Staatskapelle Dresden & Myung-Whun Chung
ALBUMRavel: Concerto pour la main gauche, Boléro, Ma mère l'Oye, Le tombeau de CouperinRoger Muraro, Myung-Whun Chung & Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
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ALBUMShostakovich: Lady Macbeth of MtsenskPhilip Langridge, Aage Haugland, Maria Ewing, Paris Opera Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung & Sergej Larin
ALBUMShostakovich, D.: Symphony No. 5Myung-Whun Chung & Chicago Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMRoméo & JulietteValérie de La Rochefoucauld, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Myung-Whun Chung
ALBUMMessiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorumOrchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Myung-Whun Chung
ALBUMBerlioz: Le Carnaval Romain & La Mort de Cléopâtre - Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien & La MerBéatrice Uria-Monzon, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Myung-Whun Chung
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ALBUMMessiaen: Trois Petites Liturgies, Couleurs de la Cité Céleste & Hymne Au Saint-SacramentOrchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Myung-Whun Chung
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ALBUMDvorák: Serenades for Strings and WindsVienna Philharmonic & Myung-Whun Chung
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ALBUMOliver Messiaen: Des Canyons Aux Étoiles (From the Canyons to the Stars)Myung-Whun Chung, Roger Muraro & Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
ALBUMShostakovich: Symphony No. 4The Philadelphia Orchestra & Myung-Whun Chung
ALBUMBen Heppner: French Opera AriasBen Heppner, London Symphony Orchestra & Myung-Whun Chung
ALBUMBacalov: Misa Tango, Tangosaín - Piazzolla: Adiós Nonino, LibertangoCiro Visco, Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Plácido Domingo, Héctor Ulises Passarella, Maria Ana Martinez, Myung-Whun Chung & Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia
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Panis Angelicus
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Ave Maria (arr from Bach's Prelude in C Major)
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Cujus Animam Gementem
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Pieta', Signore
Andrea Bocelli, Myung-Whun Chung & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Serses (Xerxes), HWV 40: Frondi Tenre E Belle...Ombra Mai Fu
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Ave Verum Corpus K.618
Andrea Bocelli, Myung-Whun Chung & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Agnus Dei
Andrea Bocelli, Myung-Whun Chung & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Proteggimi
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Sancta Maria
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About Myung-Whun Chung
Artist Biography
Myung-Whun Chung is one of the leading conductors of his generation. Also a prize-winning pianist, he is particularly noted for his interpretations of the music of French composer Olivier Messiaen.
There has rarely been as talented a group of siblings as Myung-Whun and his two older sisters, cellist Myung-Wha Chung (born 1944) and violinist Kyung-Wha Chung (born 1948). Myung-Whun made his performing debut as a pianist in Seoul at the age of 7. At 8, he flew to Seattle, WA, to begin his American musical studies. He attended the Mannes School, and later the Juilliard School in New York. His teachers there were Nadia Reisenberg (piano) and Carl Bramburger (conducting).
Chung won the New York Times piano competition in 1970. He made a conducting debut back in Seoul in 1971, conducting the Korean Symphony Orchestra. In 1974, he entered the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow as a pianist, winning second prize. He and his sisters began performing as a trio while he continued conducting studies at Juilliard, conducting both the New York Youth Orchestra and the Pre-College Orchestra of the Juilliard School. Carlo Maria Giulini, music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, engaged Chung as his assistant in 1978. Two years later on Giulini's recommendation, the orchestra named Chung its associate conductor. In 1984, Chung became music director and principal conductor of the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra in Germany. He made his triumphant New York debut in 1986 conducting the Metropolitan Opera's production of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. Later in 1986, he also delivered a brilliant performance in Paris of Prokofiev's rarely heard opera The Fiery Angel.
In 1987, he was appointed principal guest conductor of the Teatro Communale of Florence, Italy (1987-1992). He received two major Italian awards during this period, the Premio Abbiata and the 1989 Arturo Toscanini Prize. In 1989 Chung became music director of the Opéra-Paris-Bastille. His performances included Messiaen's Saint-François d'Assise and Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District. He became noted for his renditions of the complex music of Messiaen. The composer rewarded Chung by dedicating and entrusting the world premiere of his last work, the Concert à quatre (1994), to him. In 1992, the French government awarded him the Legion of Honor for his contributions to the Paris Opera. After leaving the Bastille Opera post he has been principal conductor of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra.
He seeks a closer relationship between the two parts of his divided country, and has premiered the music of Isang Yun, a South Korean-born composer with similar views.
He also promotes an anti-drug message in his concerts, leading him in 1992 to be named Ambassador of the Drug Control Program at the United Nations. He was 1995's UNESCO "Man of the Year" and in 1996 won the highest cultural award of the Korean government. He returned to Korea to become music director of the Korean Broadcasting Symphony, and is the first Honorary Cultural Ambassador for Korea.
Hometown
South Korea
Genre
Classical
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