Sung Jin Hong, Artistic Director and Conductor

Sung Jin Hong is the artistic director and conductor of One World Symphony in New York City. The 2007-08 season includes debut guest engagements at the University of Redlands, CA and at Dallas conducting members of Dallas Symphony. Highlights of Hong's conducting engagements with One World Symphony include Stravinsky's revolutionary Le sacre du printemps and new and complete productions of Britten's Peter Grimes and Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos with One World Symphony.

Abroad, Hong's guest conducting engagements have included Stadt Wien Konservatorium Orchester in Vienna, Royal Northern Conservatory of Music in Manchester, UK, and "Lyrique-en-mer"- Festival de Belle-Île, in France, where he conducted full productions of Mozart's Così fan tutte. In Vienna, he served as Principal Conductor of the IES Singverein. In the U.S., Hong has guest conducted the Manhattan School of Music Symphony, Mannes Orchestra, Manhattan Opera Ensemble, Western Illinois University's Cello Choir, Illinois Wesleyan's New Music Players and "Great Music for a Great City" in New York City. His most recent guest conducting engagement was at the Tulsa Symphony conducting complete productions of The Nutcracker with the Tulsa Ballet. Hong has also served as Music Director and Conductor of Peoria Sinfonietta, apprentice conductor at The Bard Music Festival, and assistant conductor of Jupiter Symphony and Twin Cities Ballet Company.

Hong has always embraced the opportunities to creatively interact with audience members, no matter what their musical experience. During recent Town Hall concerts, he has inspired the sold-out audiences to be active performers in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, shared the magic of Stravinsky's The Firebird through engaging musical demonstrations, and delighted his audiences with the performance of music from Star Wars with the thrilling collaboration with The New York Jedi. Upcoming dynamic collaborations with audience members will include a world premiere arrangement of Queen's magnum opus Bohemian Rhapsody for audience and symphony.

An advocate of performing music by living composers, Hong has conducted works by award-winning composers such as John Corigliano, George Crumb, Michael Daugherty, George Perle, Steve Reich, and Joan Tower. Committed to supporting up and coming composers, Hong has conducted numerous world premieres by Keith Bailey, John Craven, James Cross, Kyle Gann, Peter Gilbert, Stanley Grill, Sean Hickey, Jihwan Kim, Carleton Macy, Masashi Mori, Takeshi Ota, and Margarita Zelenaia.

His opera-conducting credits with full orchestra include Venus and Adonis, Dido and Aeneas, Giulio Cesare, Orfeo ed Euridice, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, La Clemenza di Tito, Die Zauberflöte, La Bohème, Gianni Schicci, Suor Angelica, Carmen, Samson et Dalila, Otello, Aïda, La Traviata, Falstaff, Il Trovatore, Hansel and Gretel, The Merry Widow, West Side Story, Richard Strauss' ground-breaking music-drama Salomé, and Knossos, a world premiere opera by James Cross.

Hong earned his B.A. in music at Illinois Wesleyan University. He earned his Master's in Conducting at Bard College, where he conducted Bard Chamber Orchestra, Vocal Ensemble, and Institute Orchestra. He went on to earn an Artist Diploma in orchestral conducting at Stadt Wien Konservatorium, where he won the Maria Theresia Silver Medal Award. In 2004, Hong had the honor of being chosen by Kurt Masur to participate in a series of master classes and conduct in concert with Manhattan School of Music Symphony. In 2005 he made his international recording debut with classical music's largest record label, Naxos, which made the the Billboard Classical Chart on its very first week of release -- a rarity in new music. During the last two seasons Hong led One World Symphony to sold-out concerts at New York City's historic Town Hall produced by The Town Hall.

Adrienne Metzinger-Hong

Adrienne Metzinger-Hong is a founding member, Graphic Designer and Managing Director of One World Symphony. Ms. Metzinger had the honor of singing our National Anthem to begin New York City’s televised 2003 Veteran’s Day Parade as well as at a ceremony honoring Senator Hillary Clinton held by the United Spinal Association (formerly Eastern Paralyzed Veterans' Association.) She recently performed Berlioz's Les Nuits d´Ètè with One World Symphony in August 2007. In June of 2003, she made her Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall debut singing the music of Kurt Weill in a benefit concert for the American Red Cross. Her opera credits include Cornelia (Giulio Cesare), Emilia (Otello), Mercedes (Carmen), Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana), Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Flora and Annina (La Traviata), Peep-Bo (The Mikado), Countess Ceprano (Rigoletto), Kate (Madama Butterfly), The Sandman/Dew Fairy (Hansel and Gretel), and Kate (Ballad of Baby Doe) as well as Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro). She has also made numerous appearnces with One World Symphony as a featured soloist in Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Bach’s Magnificat, Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Verdi's Otello, and Handel's Giulio Cesare as well many chamber and opera concerts singing selections by Barber, Verdi, Offenbach, and Weill to name a few. Ms. Metzinger has also performed world premiere works by Kyle Gann (orchestrated by Sung Jin Hong), Joan Dawidziak and — most recently — a piece written for her by New York composer Stan Grill for soprano, harp, and cello based on poems by John McKenzie. Ms. Metzinger is Design Director of Stan Adler Associates in Manhattan. She also designs all posters and marketing materials for One World Symphony. Ms. Metzinger lives together with her husband Sung Jin Hong and their kitty Cleo Hongzinger in Brooklyn.