Flutist Park Yeram Joins Belgium's La Monnaie Royal Symphony as Principal Player

by Kim Heeyun

Published 26 Apr.2023 11:34(KST)

Flutist Park Yeram (27) will become the first Korean to join the Royal Symphony Orchestra of La Monnaie in Belgium as a principal player.

Flutist Park Yeram <span>[Photo by Stage One]</span>

Flutist Park Yeram [Photo by Stage One]

On the 26th, the performance planning company Stage One announced that Park Yeram recently passed the final round of the public audition for the principal player position at the Royal Symphony Orchestra of La Monnaie in Belgium and will officially join the orchestra this September.

Founded in 1772, the Royal Symphony Orchestra of La Monnaie is the resident orchestra of the La Monnaie Opera House (Th??tre de la Monnaie). The La Monnaie Opera House is a representative cultural institution of Belgium and is considered one of the world's three major opera houses alongside La Fenice (Italy) and Garnier (France).

Past music directors include Kazushi Ono and Antonio Pappano, and since 2016, Alain Altinoglu has been leading the orchestra.

Park Yeram entered the Conservatoire ? Rayonnement R?gional de Saint-Maur (CRR de Saint-Maur) in France at the age of 12, studying under Philippe Lesgourgues. She was admitted as the top student and graduated at the top of her class from the Conservatoire de Paris and the Conservatoire National Sup?rieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP). At 21, she became the first foreigner to join the National Avignon Orchestra as a tenured principal flutist. Since 2018, she has been nurturing the next generation as a flute professor at her alma mater, the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur.