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Artistic Director DAEJIN KIM Conductor Hee-Chuhn Choi majored in conducting in the Diploma and the premier conductor course (Konzertexamen) in the Department of Conducting of Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, Germany. He is the first graduate of the Department of Conducting of Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden who took the premier conductor course (Meisterklasse) since the opening of the university. He was awarded the Grand Prize in the German Colleges of Music Competition (Deutsche Hochschulwettbewerb) by the panel of judges unanimously. He also took the first place in the Bad Homburg Conducting Competition.

Conductor Hee-Chuhn Choi has conducted Berlin German Symphony Orchestra (Berliner Sinfonie Orchester), Jena Philharmonic Orchestra (Jena Philharmonie), Kassel National Symphony Orchestra (Staatsorchester Kassel), Brandenburg National Symphony Orchestra (Brandenburgisches Staastsorchester), and Rheinland-Pfalz National Symphony Orchestra (Staatsorchester Rheinland-Pfalz). He has successfully conducted numerous opera performances including La traviata of Verdi in the Munich National Opera House, Heidelberg Opera House, and Annaberg Opera House. After he conducted the “Drei Helden (Three Heroes)” composed by Joern Arnecke at the Rheinsberg Palace Opera House for the first time in the world, he was favorably commented by the Berliner Morgenpost, a major daily newspaper in Berlin saying “He performed the conducting that inspires performing artists.”

He also served as a Chief Director and Conductor for the performance of a Mozart’s opera “The Abduction from the Seraglio” in the Oder-Spree Opera Festival. He also conducted many pieces of opera and ballet as an Assistant Conductor in the Saxony State Theater.

He conducted Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra, Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra, Gwangju Philharmonic Orchestra, and Daegu Philharmonic Orchestra as a guest conductor in Korea. He was awarded the 41st Nanpa Music Award.

He has served as a permanent conductor in the Korean Symphony Orchestra and Jeonju Philharmonic Orchestra. He is now a professor of conducting in Hanyang University. He is also an art director and the 7th permanent conductor of the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra