"TaeJung Lee is a very talented and excellent conductor with exceeding individual skills and outstanding musicality!"
Zubin Mehta

"He is a remarkable young conductor with fantastic baton technique!"
Sir Simon Rattle

"A highly-talented conductor!"
Bertrand de Billy

Highly successful both in the operatic and symphonic field, The Korean conductor, TaeJung Lee, has led various orchestras and ensembles – the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna (RSO Wien), the Porto National Orchestra, the Philharmonia Corea, Beethoven Sinfonie Orchestra Wien, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Baden, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra, Webern Chamber Ensemble, OENM (Österreichsches Ensemble für Neue Musik).

In June 2013, he returned to the Golden Hall of Musikverein Wien to conduct a concert with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna (RSO Wien) and in the season of 2013/2014, he conducted two subscription concerts with Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra and with the renowned French cellist, Anne Gastinel in the National Opera Theatre Sarajevo, as well as marked his conducting debut with Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra in the Cankarjev Dom and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra at the Verdi & Wagner Gala Concert.

His opera achievements include performances of “L’elisir D’amore” by Donizetti (2004), “Die Fledermaus” by J. Strauss II (2007), “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” by Mozart (2007), “The Telephone or L’amour a trois” by Menotti (2008) and “L’anima del Filosofo ossia Orfeo ed Euridice” by J. Haydn (2009). He, very remarkably, conducted the new opera by Herbert von Lauermann, “Die Höhle von Salamanca (the second edition)” (2009) with orchestra musicians from Vienna Philharmonic and Tonkünstler orchestra at the Gläserner Saal of Vienna Musikverein. In the field of opera, he has worked with many renowned singers like KS Franz Gundheber, Kwangchul Youn, Wolfgang Koch, Daniel Schmutzhard, Kurt Streit, Sebastian Holecek, Manuela Uhl, Roy Cornelius Smith, George Petean, Akiko Nakajima, Raymond Very Charles Reid, Heidi Brunner and Clemens Unterreiner, etc.

He studied conducting at the International Summer Academy of Mozarteum in Salzburg with Johannes Kalitzke and was awarded a Diploma of Merit. He also took part in master classes with many renowned Maestros – Zubin Mehta, Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitnik, Kurt Masur, Jorma Panula and Toyama Yuzo. One of the outstanding features was “Tristan und Isolde” by R. Wagner at the conducting master class with Sir Simon Rattle who praised him highly.