Shi-Yeon Sung received in April the second prize in the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition, in Bamberg, Germany, and was the first female winner of the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors' Competition in Frankfurt last year.
Sung began her conducting studies with Rolf Reuter at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, and holds a master's degree in piano performance from the Berlin University of the Arts. In August 2006, she started advanced conducting studies with Jorma Panula at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
