Hankyeol Yoon is the winner of the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award at the 2023 Salzburger Festspiele. He has since enjoyed a string of major successes with some of the leading orchestras around the world returning to several in the same season as his debut, including Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Münchner Philharmoniker and Orchestre National de Belgique. Hankyeol jumped in to conduct the latter on their Korean tour in September 2025 and will return in July 2026 and beyond.
Hankyeol is in regular demand from orchestras in his native South Korea and this season he returned to Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra to make his subscription debut and also led the orchestra for their annual Bukseoul Dream Forest Park Concert. Other returns include Korean National Symphony Orchestra and Pohang International Music Festival.
Last season Hankyeol made his LA Phil debut closing their subscription series and his Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks debut conducting the ARD Competition finals. Other recent highlights include Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Bern Symphony Orchestra and George Enescu International Festival.
Also a prize-winning composer, Hankyeol opened his Salzburger Festpiele debut and Seoul Philharmonic return premiering his own composition, ‘Grium’.