Shin-ik Hahm

Shinik Hahm (born 1958) is a Korean American conductor and a professor in the Practice of Conducting and Music Director of the Yale Philharmonia. Hahm has led North American, South American, European, and Far Eastern orchestras. Recent appearances include debuts in Geneva, Switzerland, and Besançon, France; at Bolshoi Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia, with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra; and reengagement with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at Disney Hall. He is an active opera conductor and has led productions with the Silesian National Opera in Poland, has collaborated with musicians including Salvatore Accardo, Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Yefim Bronfman and has recorded with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra for Vision and Britstar.

Hahm grew up in South Korea in a poor family as the son of a pastor. He studied Music Education,College of Education at Konkuk University in Seoul, and left for the United States in 1983 with US$400.

He studied conducting at Rice University and the Eastman School of Music. Since 2006 he has also collaborated with Mexican orchestras. After a debut with the Mexico's National Symphony Orchestra and Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, Hahm was re-engaged for coming seasons. Hahm served as the conductor for the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra from 1995 through 2000.