Hankyeol Yoon wins Young Conductors Award
The South Korean conductor Hankyeol Yoon has won the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award 2023 at the Salzburg Festival.
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Hankyeol Yoon was awarded the Neeme Järvi Prize in 2019 as the youngest winner of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and received invitations from the Basel Chamber Orchestra and the symphony orchestras in Basel and Bern. In 2022/23, he made his debut with the Bern Symphony Orchestra and the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra and assisted Simon Rattle on a European tour of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
He was engaged as assistant conductor at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and worked as a scholarship holder under Daniel Harding and Thomas Adès. He has also received awards as a composer. He was a member of the mentoring program of the Eötvös Foundation for Contemporary Music in Budapest and was artistically supervised by George Benjamin, while Peter Eötvös performed his compositions. He made his debut as a conductor and composer under Unsuk Chin at the Tongyeong International Music Festival. His most recent work Grande Hipab was premiered by Ensemble Modern in 2021.
