| Biography | South Korean tenor Jung Soo Yun studied at the Yonsei University in Seoul at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and at the International Academy of Voice Cardiff University under Dennis ONeill CBE and Peter Alexander Wilson.
Hailed in Opera Now Magazine as a Rising Star he was First prize winner of the Montserrat Caballé International Singing Competition (September 2011) Richard Tauber Prize (2010) the Stuart Burrows International Voice Award (2010) and Les Azuriales Opera competition in France (2010).
Recent and future plans include Nemorino (Lelisir damore), Italian Singer (Rosenkavalier) in Opera North and Alfredo (La travata) in Westgreen Opera in UK.
Other engagements include Lensky Eugene Onegin (Grange Park Opera) Rodolfo La boheme (Den Jyske Opera Denmark) Mainfroid and covering Henri in Verdis Les Vêpres siciliennes (Royal Opera House) Macduff Macbeth (Opera North) Nadir Les pêcheurs de perles Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi Trin La fanciulla del West and Flavio Norma (Opera Holland Park) Ruggero La Rondine (Go Opera / Opera di Peroni) as well as covering Raimbaud Robert le Diable (ROH) Faust (title role) for Opera North and Werther (title role) for Scottish Opera. In 2013 he made his Wigmore Hall solo recital debut a programme of Schubert Liszt Strauss and Korean Art Songs with pianist Joseph Middleton and performed on BBC Radio 2s Friday Night is Music Night and BBC Radio 3s In Tune. |