# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shi-yeon-sung
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:22:18.542Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shi-yeon-sung"
name: "Shi-Yeon Sung"
slug: "shi-yeon-sung"
description: "Shi-Yeon Sung is a South Korean classical conductor. In 2006, she became the first woman to win first prize in the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors' Competition. In 2007, she won second prize in Bamberg's Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition. That year, she became the first female assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a post she held through 2010. Among the orchestras she has conducted are the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C. She was the associate conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic from 2009 to 2013. She served as the artistic director and chief conductor of Gyeonggi Philharmonic Orchestra from January 2014 until 2017. In 2022, she was appointed to the role of Principal Guest Conductor of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra."
tagline: "South Korean conductor"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1975"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.673866666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi-Yeon_Sung"
    title: "Shi-Yeon Sung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi-Yeon_Sung"
    title: "Shi-Yeon Sung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sung_Shi-yeon"
    title: "Sung Shi-yeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%90%E6%B2%B6%E5%A6%8D"
    title: "成沶妍"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi-Yeon_Sung"
    title: "Shi-Yeon Sung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%84%B1%EC%8B%9C%EC%97%B0"
    title: "성시연"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1675318"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump