MIN GYU
SONG

Min Gyu Song has served as Assistant Conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra since 2025, working with Music Director Jaap van Zweden. Appointed following the orchestra’s inaugural Conducting Fellowship, he previously served as a Fellowship Conductor at Korea National Opera from 2024 to 2025.

In October 2024, Song became the first Korean conductor to win the Premio Guido Cantelli in Italy, a competition whose previous winners include Riccardo Muti, Eliahu Inbal and Adam Fischer. He also received the Orchestra Prize and the Management Agencies’ Jury Award, presented by representatives of Askonas Holt and IMG Artists. His other distinctions include Second Prize at the 2024 Hiroshima International Conducting Competition and the Orchestra Prize at the 2022 Erich Bergel International Conducting Competition. In 2025, he reached the semi-finals of the Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors and was shortlisted for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s Bernard Haitink Associate Conductor position. He is also a former recipient of a Deutscher Musikrat Neustart Kultur scholarship.

Song has conducted more than 20 orchestras across Europe and Asia. These include the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, Komische Oper Berlin, WDR Funkhausorchester Köln, Bochumer Symphoniker, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Orchestra della Toscana, Târgu Mureș State Philharmonic and Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra. His European work has also brought him to the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt (Oder), Cottbus State Theatre, Magdeburg Theatre and Neubrandenburg Philharmonic.