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Yeo Ryeong Ahn
Conductor

Yeo Ryeong Ahn is becoming increasingly acclaimed for her appearances on the podiums of major orchestras worldwide. In Europe, she has conducted Bamberger Symphoniker and Südwestdeutsche Philharmonic Konstanz in Germany and the Paris Mozart Orchestra. She has also appeared with the Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in Norway, and the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda in Hungary. In the United States, she was a 2021 Fellow in the highly prestigious Dallas Opera Hart Institute for Women Conductors, and has conducted the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, among others. She also participated in the Järvi Conducting Academy at the Pärnu Music Festival in Estonia. Recently, where she was advanced to the final stages in the La Maestra Competition in Paris, the 5th Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition in Monaco, and the Gustav Mahler Competition in Germany. 

She began studying conducting at the Korea National University of Arts, where she received a Bachelor’s degree. Later, as an honored recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, she earned a Master of Music at the University of Illinois under the guidance of Donald Schleicher. She is currently studying orchestral conducting with renowned pedagogue and conductor Kenneth Kiesler at the University of Michigan. Her teachers have also included Peter Eötvös, Johannes Schlaefli, Christian Ehwald, and Paavo Järvi, among others.