【Date&Time】

Mar. 22, 2025 (Sat.) 2:00PM

【Venue】

Auditorium 364, Teaching Building

School of Music, CUHK-Shenzhen

Admission Free.

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【Reminder】 

*Children under 1.2m are not admitted.

Prof. Wookyung Kim

Wookyung Kim is a distinguished professor in the Voice Department at Hanyang University. After completing his vocal studies at Hanyang University in his hometown of Seoul, the talented South Korean tenor moved to Germany, where he was selected to participate in master classes at the Academy of Music in Munich under the guidance of Prof. Helmut Deutsch and other esteemed instructors.

Wookyung Kim has garnered numerous accolades in various international competitions, including First Prize at the Belvedere Competition (Vienna), the Francisco Viñas Competition (Barcelona), and the Plácido Domingo OPERALIA Competition in Los Angeles.

From the 2003/04 season until 2007, Wookyung Kim was a member of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden, where he performed significant roles in his repertoire, including Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Rodolfo in La Bohème, the Singer in Der Rosenkavalier, Fenton in Falstaff, Ismaele in Nabucco, Macduff in Macbeth, and the Duke in Rigoletto. In 2007, he portrayed Orombello in a concert version of Beatrice di Tenda alongside Edita Gruberova in Dresden. That same year, he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Alfredo in La Traviata, followed by debuts at the Bavarian State Opera as Tamino and at London's Covent Garden as the Duke in Rigoletto.

In the subsequent years, Wookyung Kim performed at Hamburg's State Opera as Rodolfo and Alfredo, as well as Macduff, and at Covent Garden as the Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier and again as the Duke. He also appeared at Deutsche Oper Berlin as Rodolfo.

Wookyung Kim expanded his repertoire significantly with roles in new productions in Dresden, including Faust (title role), Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera, Idomeneo (title role), and Erik in Der fliegende Holländer. He returned to Munich's State Opera for performances of La Bohème, Der Rosenkavalier, Simon Boccanegra (Adorno), Erik, and Macduff. He debuted at Toulouse Opera as Tito in Clemenza di Tito and was a guest artist at Tokyo's New National Theatre as Rodolfo and the Duke.

In 2013, he made his debut at Milan's Teatro alla Scala as Macduff and returned to Deutsche Oper Berlin as Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera. He has also been invited to Frankfurt's Opera House for Simon Boccanegra, Don Carlo, and Otello (Cassio), to Amsterdam as Macduff, and to Teatro San Carlo in Naples as Narraboth in Salome.

Wookyung Kim is also highly sought after as a concert singer. His concert engagements include performing Verdi's Messa da Requiem with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under Lorin Maazel, at the Musikverein Vienna with Fabio Luisi, and with the Tonkünstlerorchester Niederösterreich. He has also held solo concerts featuring Mozart arias with the Munich Philharmonic under James Levine and performed Rossini's Stabat Mater at the Salzburg Festival and in Bregenz. He has participated in several tours with the Bachakademie Stuttgart and Maestro Helmuth Rilling.

Recent highlights of Wookyung Kim's career include the role of Faust at the Florence Opera House, Don José in Carmen, Adorno in Simon Boccanegra, Rodolfo, and Gabriele Adorno at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, as well as Erik at the Semperoper Dresden—a role he recently performed with great success at the Vancouver Opera. In addition to his professorship at the Conservatory in Seoul, he regularly appears in opera and concert performances at prestigious venues throughout South Korea.

Prof. Hyoungjin Park

Hyoungjin Park is an Adjunct Professor at Hanyang University and serves as an accompanist at Seoul National University. Additionally, she is a coach at Kyunghee University and the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul, South Korea.

A distinguished collaborative pianist, Prof. Park has worked with emerging talents from the Korea Collaborative Pianists Association and received the Collaborative Pianist Award at the German Art Song Competition. She has been invited to perform at prominent venues such as Tonhalle Zürich and the Tongyong International Music Foundation, as well as numerous domestic and international recitals.

Prof. Park has accompanied international award winners at prestigious competitions, including the Queen Elizabeth International Music Competition, the 2nd International Otto Edelmann Singing Competition, the International Osaka Schubert Competition regionals, and the International Francesco Paolo Tosti Singing Competition Asia preliminary, among others in Europe and Asia. She has also served as the standing pianist for masterclasses led by renowned artists such as Maria Chiara, Pier Miranda Ferraro, and Kristin Okerlund, as well as for auditions at the Daegu Opera House.

Expanding her expertise in opera, Prof. Park has contributed to productions at the Seoul Arts Center, including Don Carlo and Die Zauberflöte, as well as La Bohème, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, Mosè, La voix humaine, Mozart and Salieri, Pagliacci, L'elisir d'amore, etc. She has worked on numerous operas, including contemporary pieces with major opera companies in Seoul, Korea. Furthermore, she continues to coach at Seoul National University and the National Opera Company's Opernstudio Opera Research Institute.

Prof. Park holds a degree in piano from the Yonsei University Department of Church Music and completed her Master's in Collaborative Piano at Sungshin Women's University. She studied under Kristin Okerlund at the Wiener Staatsoper in Vienna, Austria, and earned her Ph.D. from Hansei University in Seoul, Korea.