SEOUL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

First US Tour in more than 10 years

 

Jaap van Zweden, Music Director & Conductor

Bomsori Kim, Violin | Jae Hong Park, Piano

 

October 27: Carnegie Hall in New York

U.S. Premiere by Jung Jae-il

 

October 29 – November 1: The McKnight Center for the Performing Arts at Oklahoma State University

Donghoon Shin’s Upon His Ghostly Solitude

 

The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) returns for its first American tour in more than ten years under the baton of its new Music Director Jaap van Zweden, with performances at Carnegie Hall in New York and at The McKnight Center for the Performing Arts at Oklahoma State University.

 

The SPO plays a leading role in shaping the Korean classical music scene and providing an international platform for Korean artists.  On this U.S. tour, two outstanding Korean soloists join the orchestra: Deutsche Grammophon recording artist violinist Bomsori Kim in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor; and Jae Hong Park, the young Korean pianist who astonished the world at the 2021 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

 

The concert at Carnegie Hall features the U.S. premiere of Inferno by composer Jung Jae-il, who is well-known for his scores composed for the film Parasite and TV series Squid Game; Inferno will also be performed at the McKnight Center. Jae-il, who will attend the Carnegie, found inspiration for the work in the last sentence of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: “The second [way to escape the inferno] is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and  learn to recognize who and what, In the midst of the inferno, Are not inferno, Then make them endure, give them space.”  Jae-il explains, “As I reflect on the countless deaths, suffering, and farewells caused by wars, plagues, and natural disasters occurring around the world, I realize that their scale is far beyond what I could ever fathom. In the face of darkness and flames, where not even an inch ahead is visible, I tried to think about how we are to go on living.”  The composer adds, “Though I am a composer without formal classical training, I would like to express my deep gratitude to Maestro van Zweden, who encouraged me from our very first meeting and gave me the courage to take on the challenge of composition.”

 

A recent work by Korean composer Donghoon Shin, Upon His Ghostly Solitude, co-commissioned by the SPO and inspired by the poetry of Yeats and the music of Alban Berg, is also featured in the second Oklahoma concert.

 

 

Jaap van Zweden by Dario Acosta, Bomsori Kim by Kyutai Shim / DG

 

Monday, October 27, 2025

Carnegie Hall / Stern Auditorium

New York, NY

Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

Jaap van Zweden, Music Director and Conductor

Bomsori Kim, Violin

Tickets & Information

 

Jung Jae-il, Inferno - US Premiere

Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

 

 

Pianist Jae Hong Park

 

October 29-31, 2025

The McKnight Center for the Performing Arts at Oklahoma State University

Stillwater, OK

Single Tickets on Sale August 11

Tickets & Information

 

October 29 at 7:30 pm

Chamber Music by Seoul Philharmonic Musicians and Pianist Jae Hong Park

This chamber music concert features select orchestra musicians in trio and quartet arrangements, set in The McKnight Center's intimate Recital Hall.

 

Rachmaninoff Piano Trio No. 1 in G minor, op. posth. “Élégiaque”

Rodion Shchedrin Three Funny Pieces

Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25

 

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

Jaap van Zweden, Music Director and Conductor

Bomsori Kim, Violin

 

Donghoon Shin Upon His Ghostly Solitude (2023)

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

 

Saturday, November 1, 2025

McKnight Center for the Performing Arts

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

Jaap van Zweden, Music Director and Conductor

Jae Hong Park, piano

 

Jung Jae-il Inferno

Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

 

 

얍 판 츠베덴 서울시향 음악감독 선임 <2022. 9. 4> 

Jaap van Zweden named Seoul Philharmonic music director

 

Jaap Van Zweden, 2016 Photo: Hans van der Woerd

 

뉴욕필하모닉의 음악감독 얍 판 츠베덴(Jaap van Zweden)이 서울시립교향악단(Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, 대표이사 손은경)의 차기 음악감독으로 선임됐다. 

얍 판 츠베덴은 2024년 1월부터 5년간 서울시향을 이끌게 된다. 현 서울시향 음악감독 오스모 벤스케의 임기는 올해 말로 만료되며 2023년 음악감독 공백기엔 객원 지휘자들이 서울시향을 지휘할 예정이다. 

 

2018/19 시즌부터 뉴욕필을 이끌어온 츠베덴은 2021년 8월 2023-24 시즌을 마지막으로 뉴욕필을 사임한다고 밝혔었다. 이로써 2024년엔 뉴욕필과 서울시향을 오가며 지휘할 것으로 알려졌다. 

 

서울시향 손은경 대표이사는 "한국은 이미 케이팝, 영화, 드라마 등 K컬처가 전세계를 주도하고 있다. 클래식 분야 또한 촉망받는 세계적인 아티스트들의 산실로 주목받고 있는 상황에서 서울시향도 이번에 세계 최정상급 지휘자의 영입을 통해 세계적인 오케스트라로 자리매김할 수 있기를 기대한다"고 밝혔다. 

 

1960년 네덜란드 암스테르담에서 태어난 츠베덴은 피아니스트였던 아버지의 권유로 5살 때 바이올린 공부를 시작했다. 줄리아드음대에서 도로시 드레이 교수를 사사했으며, 18세에 네덜란드의 로열 콘세르트헤바우 관현악단(RCO)의 최연소 악장으로 임명되어 17년간 연주했다. 베를린에서 레너드 번스타인의 권유로 지휘 공부를 시작, 달라스심포니(2008-2018), 홍콩필하모닉(2012-) 등의 음악감독을 맡았다.

 

츠베덴은 오케스트라의 연주 역량을 단기간에 끌어올려 오케스트라 트레이너로서의 명성을 얻었으며, 2019년 클래식 전문지 그라모폰은 홍콩필하모닉을 ‘2019 올해의 오케스트라’로 선정했다. 

 

 

*뉴욕필 얍 판 츠베덴(Jaap van Zweden) 서울시향 간다 <2022. 9. 4>

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