Hae Lee, who last year was second prize winner at the Sergey Kussewitzky International Conducting Competition and a finalist in the Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors, has been appointed associate conductor of the Richmond Symphony and conductor of the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra.
He succeeds Chia-Hsuan Lin, who has been named music director of the Rochester Symphony in Minnesota.
Lee was a participant in the Richmond Symphony Conducting Seminar in 2022. The 32-year-old is a graduate of the Korea National University of the Arts and the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. He will join the symphony staff in July.
The symphony also announced that Daniel Myssyk will conclude his tenure as conductor of the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra at the end of this season. Myssyk, who is director of orchestral activities at Virginia Commonwealth University and conductor of the VCU Symphony, will continue as the Richmond Symphony’s assistant conductor.
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