The 34-year-old South Korean Samuel Lee is the winner of the Malko Competition 2024. He has won several international conducting competitions. He has been a professor at the conservatory in Leipzig. He has a permanent position with one of America’s well-known symphony orchestras. And he has appeared in concert halls all over the world, both as conductor and soloist.
With the victory in the Malko Competition, 34-year-old Samuel Lee has not only won the coveted prize money of 20,000 euros. He has also won conducting contracts with 24 leading international symphony orchestras and a three-year period with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra’s chief conductor Fabio Luisi as a personal mentor.