Biography

Born in Daegu, Hankyeol Yoon studied at the Yewon School of Arts with Kyu Yung Chin before entering the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, Germany, where he pursued his studies with Isabel Mundry. In addition to composition, he also studied the piano with Yuka Imamine and orchestra conducting with Bruno Weil, Alexander Liebreich and Marcus Bosch.

As a composer Hankyeol Yoon has won many prizes including 1^st Prize at the Eumyoun Competition, 3rd Prize in Guenter-Bialas Competition in Munich and 2^nd Prize at the Vareler Competition (Munich). His works were performed in Seoul at the 28^th Eumyoun Young Music Festival in 2011, at the SIMEN’S Junge Solisten Stiftung (Munich) in 2013, at the Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival in 2014, at the Gasteig and by the Karl Hartmann Society in Munich. He also took part in a master class by Unsuk Chin in Seoul.

As a conductor, Hankyeol Yoon was assistant to Bruno Weil for the Jeunesses Musicales Opera in Weikersheim and is currently assistant to Marcus Bosch at the Heidenheim Opera for the Stuttgart Philharmonic. He was recently named assistant conductor of the Staatstheater Nürnberg for the 2017 Season. He has directed orchestras in Munich, including the Münchener Kammerorchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Münchener Symphoniker. He was semi-finalist at the Aram Khatchaturian Competition in Yerevan, Armenia, and finalist of the 70^th Geneva Competition's Composition Prize in 2015.