Keuntae Park, the first prize winner of the 2022 Opéra de Baugé International Conducting Competition in France, who also received the Orchestra Prize and the Audience Prize, has been the Principal Conductor and Deputy Artistic Director of the Neue Philharmonie Berlin since the 2021/22 season.

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He has conducted, among others, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt, the Staatsorchester Braunschweig, the Hamburger Symphoniker, the Magdeburgische Philharmonie, the Philharmonie Cottbus, the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie, the Göttinger Symphonie Orchester, the Brandenburger Symphoniker, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, the Athens Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Kammerorchester Basel, the Romanian Chamber Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Korean National Symphony Orchestra.

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He refined his art under Sir Roger Norrington, Donald Runnicles, Cristian Măcelaru, Carlo Rizzi, Osmo Vänskä, Johannes Schläfli, Colin Metters, and others at festivals and masterclasses to which he was invited. In 2023, he was honored as an outstanding conductor at the KNSO Conducting Workshop. David Reiland, the Artistic Director, praised him in the Hankyoreh newspaper as a "conductor who unites intellect and emotions and achieves extraordinary perfection through his experience and balanced skills."

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He assisted Robin Ticciati, the Principal Conductor of the DSO Berlin, with a performance of Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and made his operatic conducting debut with the same opera. In 2023, he conducted several performances of Lehár’s The Merry Widow at the Operettensommer in Berlin, for which he was praised by the Berliner Morgenpost as “a conductor who brings life to the music through precise ensemble work.”

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Keuntae was born in Seoul, South Korea, and began his first violin and piano lessons at the age of four. He was trained as a pianist at Yewon School and made his debut in 2004 at the Kumho Prodigy Concerts. As a pianist, he has performed in renowned concert halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Konzerthaus Berlin, Müpa Budapest, and Seoul Arts Center, and won first prizes at the International Liszt Competition, the JoongAng Music Concours, and the Ewha-Kyunghyang Music Concours.

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After graduating from Yonsei University, he began his studies in Germany in 2017, where he completed a master’s and a Konzertexamen in piano, as well as a bachelor’s in orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, as a DAAD scholar. From 2018 to 2020, he was a lecturer in opera coaching at the University of the Arts Berlin, where he also completed a master’s in orchestral conducting.