Eu-Lee Nam is a South Korean conductor and pianist. She is the music director and chief conductor of Münchner Mandolinen-Zirkel. She’s also guest Répétiteur of Staatstheater Kassel.
She is the winner of the conducting prize at Internationale Sommerakademie Radolfzell 2021 voted by musicians of the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie. Recently she was a finalist of La Maestra Competition 2024 in Paris and with recognition she will be supported in La Maestra Academy program 2024-26 of Philharmonie de Paris and Paris Mozart Orchestra.
In concerts, orchestral rehearsals and masterclasses, she recently conducted the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cottbus State Orchestra, the Paris Mozart Orchestra, the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Symphonic Orchestra, the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, Stattsorchester Gärtnerplatz, the Southwest German Philharmonic, the Philharmonie Bad Reichenhall, Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra and Hungarian State Orchestra Szeged. In April 2022 as the assistant conductor, she conducted the last performance of the Magic Flute Production of Theaterakademie Everding in Munich.
During her studies in Berlin, she took part in several master courses with several well-known conductors and professors, including Prof. Johannes Schläfli and Prof. Nicolas Pasquet at the “Weimar Meisterkurs”, with Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr at the international Mendelssohn Festival in Hamburg, with Prof. Johannes Schläfli at the International Summer Academy Radolfzell, as well as with Sir Donald Runnicles (GMD Deutsche Oper Berlin), Prof. Sigmund Thorp.
2021-2024 she studied her master of orchestra conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Prof. Marcus Bosch (GMD Norddeutsche Philharmonie) and Prof. Georg Fritzsch (GMD Badische Staatskapelle).
After studying piano and working professionally as a pianist, she began studying conducting with Prof. Heechuhn Choi in Seoul (former kapellmeister of the Sächsisches Staatstheater and former chief conductor of the Korean Symphony Orchestra). She then studied orchestral conducting for a bachelor's degree from 2017-2021 in Berlin at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns-Eisler” with Prof. Christian Ehwald and Prof. Alexander Vitlin.