Yoonki Baek

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 백윤기
Revised
Romanization 		Baek Yun-gi
McCune-
Reischauer 		Paek Yunki

Yoonki Baek (* 1976 in Seoul ) is a South Korean opera and concert singer with a tenor voice .

education

Until 2002 Yoonki Baek studied singing at Hanyang University in Seoul with a focus on opera and lied. This was followed by master classes in Tokyo with Joan Dornemann and in Bologna with Francesco Ellero d'Artegna . From 2004 to 2006, Baek completed his postgraduate studies in singing with the soprano Hanna Schwarz at the Hamburg University of Music . During his studies, he was awarded numerous prizes at international and national singing competitions.

Engagements

The artist started his first engagement in Germany at Theater Görlitz in the 2005/2006 season. Throughout his career, he dedicated the Theater Altenburg and Gera , the Meininger Theater , the State Theater Neustrelitz , the Castle Theater Celle , the Landestheater Detmold , the Lübeck Theater and the National Opera of Korea in Seoul. From 2006 to 2009 he was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Osnabrück Theater , and from the 2009/2010 season he switched to the ensemble of the Kiel Opera House , to which he had been associated with guest performances since 2005. Cooperation existed u. a. with the directors Daniel Karasek , Arila Siegert , Thomas Wünsch , Sandra Leupold , Georg Köhl and Siegfried Bühr ; he sang under the musical direction of Romely Pfund , Eric Solén and Johannes Willig and Ryusuke Numajiri.

repertoire

Yoonki Baek's extensive repertoire extends to both the lyrical and the youthful heroic subject. Right from the start and throughout his career so far, he has always been entrusted with leading roles. He sang the title roles in Don Carlo , Gounod's Faust - at the side of Samuel Ramey as Méphistophélès - as well as Hoffmann ( Hoffmann's stories ) and interpreted the great roles of the tenor subject such as the Duke of Mantua ( Rigoletto ), Tamino ( Magic Flute ), Don Ottavio ( Don Giovanni ), Ferrando ( Così fan tutte ), Belmonte ( The Abduction from the Seraglio ), Cassio ( Otello ), the Italian singer in Rosenkavalier , Narraboth ( Salome ), Idamante ( Idomeneo ), Rodolfo ( La Bohème ), Oronte ( I Lombardi alla prima crociata ), Alfredo Germont ( La traviata ), Des Grieux ( Manon ), Walther von der Vogelweide ( Tannhäuser ), Cavaradossi ( Tosca ), Stewa Buryja ( Jenůfa ) and Pinkerton ( Madama Butterfly ).

Baek can be heard as Rodolphe in the CD recording of Gounod's La nunne sanglante production by the Osnabrück Theater.

Awards

  • 2003: 2nd prize at the Korean Broadcasting System Competition , Seoul
  • 2005: 1st prize at the Mozart Competition , Hamburg
  • 2005: 3rd prize at the International Singing Competition , Passau
  • 2006: 1st prize in the competition of the Elise Meyer Foundation , Hamburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ portrait of Yoonki Baek in the Kieler Nachrichten at the commencement of the engagement at the Kiel Opera House, accessed on 9 December 2013
  2. ↑ Yoonki Baek in La nunne sanglante on Youtube, accessed on December 9, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Yoonki, Baek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean opera and concert singer with a tenor voice
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul