Tenor
Sung min song

Sung min Song comes from a family of architects and engineers in South Korea. He also tended professionally in this direction, then studied computer engineering and was already working in this field, when a singing professor in the church became aware of him and recommended Sung min Song to have his voice trained. He didn't have to be told twice, gave up his apartment and job in South Korea and came to Germany to study. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Munich with Prof. Frieder Lang and Prof. Daniel Kotlinski and graduated from there. 

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In the 2024/25 season, tenor Sung Min Song sang “Cavalleria Rusticana”, “La Traviata” (live broadcast by Opera Vision), Puccini’s opera “Il Trittico” at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, “Dvořák Stabat Mater” (live broadcast in Europe) with the MDR Radio Orchestra and Chorus at the Gewandhaus Leipzig (conductor: Dennis Russell Davies), “Verdi Requiem” with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra under the direction of the world-famous conductor Kent Nagano, Mendelssohn’s “Lobgesang” (live broadcast on the radio) with the Prague Radio Orchestra, “Bruckner’s Te Deum & Janáček, Glagolitic Mass” with members of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, “Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9” under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach at the National Music Forum in Wrocław and Warsaw Philharmonic, “Beethoven's 9th Symphony” also at the Cologne Philharmonic with the WDR Radio Choir, at the Aachen State Theatre and the Münster Theatre, and “Bruckner - Mass No. 3 in F minor” with the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra as well as “Rusalka”, “La Traviata” at the Osnabrück Theatre and Oskar Gottlieb Blarr's “The Jesus Passion” with members of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in St. Michael's, “Star & Rising Star Festival in Munich” with cellist Jan Vogler, “Max Bruch: The Song of the Bell, op. 45” with the Göttingen University Orchestra, an opera gala at the Osnabrück Theatre, and the Verdi Requiem with the Vogtland Philharmonic in Würzburg.

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In the 2025/26 season he will sing “Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis” in Pisa Cathedral under the direction of conductor Hartmund Hänchen, followed by “Lucrezia Borgia” (Operavision livestream) at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and “The Flying Dutchman (Erik)” with the Mozarteum Orchestra at the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg. He also sings "Beethoven's 9th Symphony" with the Munich Symphony Orchestra in the Isarphilharmonie Munich, Liederhalle in Stuttgart, and Lundaland Filharmoniska Orkester in Sweden and with WDR Radio Choir in the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, "Dvorak Stabat Mater" at the "National Music Forum" in Breslau under the direction of the world-famous conductor "Christoph Eschenbach", "Rossini's Petite Messe Solemnis" with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and the German State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate, "Verdi Requiem" at the Rheingau Festival and Hamburg, "Mozart Requiem" in the Rosengarten in Mannheim, "Verdi Requiem" at the Audi Summer Concert in Ingolstadt, "Verdi Requiem" in Brixen, "Dvorak Requiem" in Munich, "Puccini Messa di Gloria" and "Dvorak Stabat Mater" in the Lutherkirche Wiesbaden, Opera Gala at the Alteoper Frankfurt and "La Traviata" at the Theater Osnabrück, Bach: Mass in B minor in St. Thomas Church in Leipzig as well as a concert tour "Verdi Requiem" with the State Academy for Music-Making Youth in Baden-Württemberg in Germany and Budapest Hungary.

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 In the 2023/24 season He made his successful debut with Der fliegende Holländer (Erik) in Komische Oper Berlin and sung "Die lustige Witwe(Camille de Rosillon)" in Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, "Magic Flute" in Korea National Opera, "La Traviata(Alfredo)" in Theater Osnabrück, Eugen Onegin(Lensky) The Rake's Progress(Tom) in Staatstheater Augsburg.

  At the concert He sang "Verdi's Requiem" in Elbphilharmonie, Bremer Konzerthaus and in Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Opera Gala in Alte Oper Frankfurt, "Beethovens Symphony No.9" with Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Hofer Symphoniker, Münchner Symphoniker in Isarphilharmonie  and in National Forum of Music Wroclaw. the tenor recorded three Mozart masses on CD with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra. And he sang "Stabat Mater by Dvorak" with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra (incl. CD recording), "Operetta Gala" with Württembergische Philharmonie and "Les pêcheurs de perles(Nadir)" in Göttingen, and Concert Tour to Asia with "Les Musiciens du Louvre" with Dirigent "Marc Minkowski".​​

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 In the 2022/23 season he made his role debut in "Dvořák's Rusalka (Barrie Kosky Direction), (Prinz) " at the Komisch Oper Berlin and sang he "Gounod Faust(Faust)" in Aalto Theater Essen",  "Verdis Messa da Requiem" with Sinfonieorchester Basel, "Rossini Guillaume Tell" in Bühnen Bern “Don Pasquale (Ernesto)", "Fledermaus(Alfred)" at the Saarländisches Staatstheater, "La Traviata(Alfredo)" at the Staatstheater Augsburg, "Turandot(Pong) in Theater Magdeburg, "La Traviata (Alfredo)" im Staatstheater Darmstadt. In the concert area he performed at the "Star & Rising Stars Festival" with the conductor "Vladimir Jurowski" in Munich, Puccini's "Messa di gloria" with the International Bachakademie/Stuttgart Philharmoniker(Incl. CD Recording), the "Stabat Mater by Dvorak"with the Elbphilharmonie Orchester in St.Michael Hamburg, and the "Carmina Burana" in Isarphilharmonie with Münchner Symphoniker" and  in Wiener Musikverein with Tonkünstler-Orchester with the Conductor Yutaka Sado..

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In the 2021/22 season, Sung min Song was able to show the full range of his repertoire: At the Staatstheater Augsburg he performed "Gounod's Faust" , "Bach's Johnannes Passion (Evangelist)" in Warsaw and at the Musikverein Vienna, "Mendelssohn's 2nd Symphony Lobgesang" with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and "Orff's Carmina Burana" at the Mecklenburg State Theater at the Schlossfestspiele in Schwerin. he interpreted the role of Brighella in Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos" at the Landestheater Salzburg and Saarländisches Staatstheater, "Verdi's Messa da Requiem" at the Theater Münster and St.Michaelis in Hamburg, and "Beethoven's 9th Symphony" with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra on New Year's Eve 2021. The concert was televised in Germany and Singapore.

 

In 2019 he appeared at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl in a production of "Rossini's Guillaume Tell (Arnold)" conducted by Michael Güttler and sang "Puccini's Messa di Gloria" with the MDR Sinfonieorchester and MDR Rundfunkchor conducted by Domingo Hindoyan at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. In 2018, the tenor sang "Verdi's Messa da Requiem" at the Rheingau Music Festival as well as in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residence under the baton of Kent Nagano. The performance of "Strauss Feuersnot " with the Munich Radio Orchestra conducted by Ulf Schirmer was released on CD by cpo.  In 2016, the Bavarian Radio Kissinger Summer Festival broadcasted "Rossini's  Stabat Mater" with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alain Altinoglu. Sung min Song has been an ensemble member at the Saarländisches Staatstheater, he thrilled audiences and the press as Arnold in Rossini's "Guillaume Tell"; the opera production was recorded and broadcast by Arte Concert.

 

 The artist has received numerous awards at competitions such as the Richard Strauss Singing Competition, Anneliese Rothenberger Prize, Gasteig Music Prize, Kissinger Summer Luitpold Prize, 3rd prize  at the 33 ° Concorso Internazionale Valsesia Musica 2017, at the Hariclea Darclée Festival and the International Voice Competition second prize and Grand Prix and Prix Special ADAMI at the Vincenzo Bellini Concours International de Belcanto in Paris.