Sung Min Song

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Sung Min Song (* before 1985 in Seoul ) is a South Korean opera and concert singer (tenor) who works in Germany.

Life

Training and initial engagements

Sung Min Song initially worked as a computer engineer and began to study singing in Korea at the age of 26 on the advice of his church choir director. From 2011 he was able to continue his studies at the University of Music and Theater Munich and at the same time participate in the choir of the Bavarian State Opera from the 2012/2013 season . He studied from 2011 to 2015 in the master class of Frieder Lang , and in the academic year 2014/15 Belcanto with Daniel Kotlinski. Following his studies, he soon appeared as an internationally sought-after soloist in important works of oratorio literature and in opera galas. Sung Min Song has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken since the 2017/2018 season . Right at the beginning of this engagement he mastered the demanding role of Arnold in Rossini's Guillaume Tell ; this opera production was recorded by Arte Concert and was available as a video stream for half a year.

Artistic development

Guest performances have taken him to the Opéra de Marseille, the Opéra National de Lorraine à Nancy, the Munich Opera Festival, the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, the Rheingau Music Festival and the Kissinger Sommer as well as the Dresden Music Festival, MDR Music Summer, Star & Rising Stars Festival in Munich ', Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, He also appeared in the Berlin Philharmonic, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Philharmonie in Munich's Gasteig, Cologne Philharmonic, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Palau de la Musica in Valencia.

In 2014 the tenor sang in a concert performance of Strauss' Feuersnot - accompanied by the Münchner Rundfunkorchester under the direction of Ulf Schirmer and published on CD by cpo. In 2016 the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation broadcast Rossini's “Stabat Mater” with the Bamberg Symphony under the baton of Alain Altinoglu , in 2018 he sang Verdi's “Messa da Requiem” at the Rheingau Music Festival and in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz on the occasion of a memorial concert for Enoch zu Guttenberg under the Head of Kent Nagano . In 2019 he sang “Guillaume Tell (Arnold)” in Erl in the Tyrolean Festival under the direction of Michael Güttler. In 2019 MDR Kultur broadcast Puccini's “Messa di Gloria” with the MDR Symphony Orchestra and MDR Radio Choir under the direction of Domingo Hindoyan in the Gewandhaus.

The artist has been honored with numerous awards in competitions, such as second prize at the Richard Strauss singing competition, Anneliese Rothenberger Prize, Gasteig Music Prize, Luitpold Prize of the Kissinger Summer, 33 ° Concorso Internazionale Valsesia Musica 3rd prize, second prize at Hariclea Darclée Festival International Voice Competition and Grand Prix and Prix Special ADAMI at the Concours International de Belcanto Vincenzo Bellini in Paris.

Sung min Song was accompanied by ensembles such as the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, MDR-Sinfonieorchester, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Bamberg Symphony, Orquesta de Valencia, Orchester Philharmonique de Marseille, Orchester symphonique et lyrique de Nancy - under the direction of conductors like Kent Nagano, Alain Altinoglu, Domingo Hindoyan, Rani Calderon, Lawrence Foster, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Sebastian Rouland, Ulf Schirmer, Yaron Traub, Michael Güttler.

Opera roles and engagements (selection)

Debut in role
2017-09 Arnold Melcthal ( Guilliaume Tell ) Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken
2017-10 Tamino ( Magic Flute ) Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken
2018-01 Trinculo ( The Tempest by Frank Martin) Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken
2018-05 Ferrando ( Così fan tutte ) Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken
2018-08 Alfredo Germont ( La traviata ) Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken
2019-03 A singer ( Der Rosenkavalier ) Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken
2019-05 Faust ( Faust, Gounod ) Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken
2019-07 Arnold Melcthal ( Guilliaume Tell ) Tyrolean Festival Erl , July 2019
2019-10 Camille de Rosillon ( The Merry Widow ) Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken

Concert repertoire

Prizes and awards

  • 1st Grand Prix Vincenzo Bellini and Prix Spécial ADAMI at the Concours International de Belcanto Vincenzo Bellini 2015
  • 2nd prize at the Hariclea Darclée Festival and International Voice Competition 2017
  • 3rd prize at the 33 ° Concorso Internazionale Valsesia Musica 2017
  • Luitpold Prize (Artist of the Year 2015 at the Kissinger Sommer )
  • Special prize at the 2015 competition of the Gasteig cultural area
  • Prize at the Richard Strauss Singing Competition 2015
  • Anneliese Rothenberger Award 2013 in the subject of singing

Recordings

  • Richard Strauss: distress . Sung Min Song as master shepherd Ortlieb Tulbeck. Munich Radio Orchestra , Ulf Schirmer . CD published by CPO, 2014.
  • Gioachino Antonio Rossini: Guillaume Tell. Sung min song as Arnold. Saarland State Orchestra, conductor: Sébastien Rouland. ARTE Concert 2017
  • Gioachino Antonio Rossini: Stabat Mater, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Alain Altinoglu. BR classic. 19th July 2016
  • Oskar Gottlieb Blarr: The Jesus Passion, Wiesbaden Bach Orchestra, conductor: Joerg endebrock. CYBELLE RECORDS 2018
  • Puccini Messa di gloria: MDR symphony orchestra and MDR radio choir, conductor: Domingo Hindoyan in Gewandhaus, live streaming MDR radio.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sung Min Song. Bavarian State Opera, accessed January 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Sungmin Song wins Concours International de Belcanto Vincenzo Bellini 2015. University of Music and Theater Munich, accessed on January 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Rosà Sola: La 'Missa Solemnis' de Beethoven: todo un reto. culturplaza, December 5, 2016, accessed January 30, 2018 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ a b Verdi Requiem “Ingemisco” (video document). Youtube, April 23, 2017, accessed January 30, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Leslie Dennert: New at the State Theater: From the office to the stage. November 27, 2017. Retrieved January 29, 2018 .
  6. ^ A b "Guillaume Tell" by Rossini from the Saarbrücken State Theater (video stream). (No longer available online.) ARTE Concert, archived from the original on January 31, 2018 ; accessed on January 29, 2018 .
  7. ^ Richard Strauss: Feuersnot. Münchner Rundfunkorchester, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  8. ^ A b Kissinger Sommer: Gioacchino Rossini: "Stabat Mater". BR Klassik, accessed November 3, 2019 .
  9. ^ Requiem for Enoch zu Guttenberg. June 30, 2018, accessed November 3, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Leon Battran: Rossini's "Guillaume Tell" as a total work of art in Erl. In: Classic enthusiasm. July 18, 2019, accessed November 3, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b mdr.de: Italian flair: Season opening with the MDR ensembles in the Gewandhaus | MDR.DE. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
  12. ↑ a b Oliver Schwambach: Snap, snap, this widow is a hit. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. October 27, 2019, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  13. ↑ This portrait is enchantingly beautiful (video document of the performance of the Magic Flute on November 11, 2017 at the Saarland State Theater). November 28, 2017, accessed January 30, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Kerstin Krämer: "The Storm" at the Saarland State Theater Ränke, Vengeance, Nefariousness (premiere review). Saarbrücker Zeitung, January 28, 2018, accessed on January 30, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Oliver Schwambach: "Cosi fan tutte" at the Saarland State Theater: Tea dance instead of exchanging women. Saarbrücker Zeitung, May 13, 2018, accessed on May 15, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Saarland State Theater: detail. Retrieved March 25, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Michael Schneider: "You are left at a loss - but well entertained" Premiere review: Charles Gounod's "Faust" in the Saarland State Theater. In: SR 2 Kulturradio. June 1, 2019, accessed June 1, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Michael Tanzler: ERL / Tyrolean Festival: GUILLAUME TELL (resumption). In: Online marker. July 14, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Dietrich Stern: Review: Sorrow and pain of a mother - Schiersteiner Kantorei sings under the direction of Martin Lutz "Stabat Mater" in the market church. Wiesbadener Kurier, March 27, 2017, accessed January 30, 2018 .
  20. ↑ An impressive performance. In: Local newspaper. December 31, 2018, accessed February 7, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Rossini Stabat Mater cujus animam gementem tenor: sung min song. Retrieved on November 3, 2019 (German).
  22. ↑ https://osthessen-news.de/festspiele/n11536823/ben-becker-und-200-musiker-haben-verdi-requiem-auf-die-ruinenbuehne.html. Osthessen News, August 7, 2016, accessed January 30, 2018 .
  23. ^ Gioachino Rossini "Petite messe solennelle" "domine Deus". Video document on Youtube, accessed on November 3, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Friends of the Kissinger Summer Archive. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .
  25. ^ Winner of the Kulturkreis Gasteig Music Prize , accessed on February 7, 2018.
  26. ^ Richard Strauss Gesellschaft - Current , accessed on February 7, 2018.
  27. ^ European KulturForum Mainau eV - Former award winners , accessed on February 7, 2018.
  28. ↑ Guillaume Tell (Rossini) - Asile hereditaire ... Amis, secondez ma vengeance. Video document on Youtube, accessed on November 3, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Song, Sung Min
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Song, Sungmin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Korean opera and concert singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH before 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul