Jason Bae is the Founder & Music Director of Afflatus Ensemble and has been selected as the assistant conductor for 2026 Vienna Opera Academy. He has graduated his second Masters Degree in Orchestral Conducting at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm as the sole recipient receiving the full scholarship from the college. During his studies, Jason has conducted Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra of NorrlandsOperan and Västerås Sinfonietta in Sweden. Also, he has conducted two opera productions of Cimarosa’s “Il Matrimonio Segreto” and Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola Opera.

Jason was selected as one of the top 3 finalist candidate for the assistant conductor position at the Auditorium-Orchestre National de Lyon in 2026. He was also invited to the masterclass with the Orchestre National de Cannes under the direction of Benjamin Levy in 2026. In 2024, Jason was part of the Talent Norge Elite Conducting Program where he conducted Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the masterclass led by Antony Hermus and 2023 Lead Foundation Fiskars Festival for Conductors 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 conductor for National Romanian Opera Cluj-Napoca Lya Hubic Studio in 2024/25 and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Fellowship Programme Conductor in 2020/21. He was selected as one of the top 4 finalist candidate for the assistant conductor position for Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in 2020.

He received his 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.