Jason Bae is the Founder & Music Director of Afflatus Ensemble and is currently in his final year of his second Masters in Orchestral Conducting at Royal College of Music in Stockholm as the sole full scholarship recipient. In his 2023/24 season, Jason returns to conduct Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra of NorrlandsOperan, Norrboten NEO Ensemble, KammerensembleN, and Västerås Sinfonietta in Sweden. Also, he will make his opera conducting debut with Domenico Cimarosa’s “Il Matrimonio Segreto” and Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at the Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola Opera.

Jason was invited to 2023 Fiskars Summer Festival where he has received masterclasses with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Dalia Stasevska and James Gaffigan. He has also received masterclasses under Osmo Vänskä with Seoul Philharonic Orchestra and Jorma Panula with South Denmark Philharmonic Orchestra.

Jason was the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Fellowship Programme Conductor in 2020/21. He already has first Master of Arts in piano performance with the highest distinction award, 'DipRAM' at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was a student of Christopher Elton and Joanna MacGregor. Jason released his debut piano solo album, “Marylebone” (2015) with Austrian Gramophone in Vienna and became an official Steinway Artist since 2016.

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