\n -G. PUCCINI: "Signore, ascolta" (My lord, listen!) from Turandot, SC 91
\n -G. PUCCINI: "Si, mi chiamano Mimi" (Yes. They call me Mimi) from La Bohème, SC 67
\n -C. GOUNOD: "Ah, Je veux vivre" from Roméo et Juliette, CG 9
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Creative and Production Team
\n\nConductor|Hankyeol YOON
\n\nSoprano|Sumi HWANG
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Artists Introduction
\n\nConductor|Hankyeol YOON
\n\nKorean Conductor Hankyeol YOON is the winner of the 2023 Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award. As a result, Hankyeol will make his official debut at the Salzburger Festspiele in August 2024 conducting the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. He will also debut with Mozarteumorchester, Fondazione Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and at the George Enescu International Festival, and will return to the Korean National Symphony.
\n\nHighlights of the 2022/23 season include debuts with Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Sudwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, and Busan Philharmonic Orchestra and a return to KBS Symphony Orchestra for concerts in Tokyo. In February, Hankyeol assisted Sir Simon RATTLE for a tour of Siegfried with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, returning again in July to assist Christian THIELEMANN.
\n\nHankyeol was the youngest ever recipient of the Neeme Järvi Prize at the 2019 Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy, and was also a finalist at the 2020 Georg Solti Competition and 2021 Deutscher Dirigentenpreis respectively. As a composer, Hankyeol has been recognized at several European competitions.
\n\nBorn in Daegu, South Korea but calling Munich his home since 2011, Hankyeol studied conducting, composing, and piano performance at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.
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\nSoprano|Sumi HWANG
Following her studies in Seoul and Munich, South Korean soprano Sumi HWANG has garnered acclaim through her successes at the International Grandi Voci Competition in Salzburg, the Anneliese Rothenberger Competition in Konstanz and the Emmerich Smola Förderpreis awarded by SWR.
\n\nAfter winning the Concours Reine Elisabeth competition in Brussels in 2014, she joined the ensemble of the Theater Bonn for four years, performing roles such as Almirena (Rinaldo), Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Marzelline (Fidelio), Leïla (Les pêcheurs de perles) and Mimì (La Bohème).
\n\nNotable guest appearances have taken the soprano to the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Prinzregententheater in Munich, Korean National Opera in Seoul and the Daegu Opera House. In the 2021/22 season, she became a permanent ensemble member of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, subsequently appearing there as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi, Ilia (Idomeneo) and Pamina among others.
\n\nAs a lied singer, Sumi HWANG regularly collaborates internationally with pianist Helmut DEUTSCH, with whom she made her debut at London's Wigmore Hall in 2015 and has since released her first solo album with songs by STRAUSS, BRITTEN and LISZT in 2019.
\n\nAmong the soprano's concert highlights are BRAHMS' Ein deutsches Requiem with the Oslo Philharmonic and Munich Symphony orchestras, selected MOZART arias with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari ORAMO, and MOZART's Requiem with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra under Markus STENZ. Further international appearances include the Tongyeong International Music Festival, and performances with the KBS Symphony and Seoul Philharmonic orchestras. In her debut with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra she sang Unsuk CHIN's "Puzzles and Games" from Alice in Wonderland, while with the Copenhagen Philharmonic and Sebastian Weigle she performed STRAUSS' Four Last Songs.
\n\nSumi HWANG has been working as a professor of singing at Kyunghee University in Seoul since September 2022.
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\nEnsemble TIMF
Ensemble TIMF was founded in 2001 with the goal of incepting a major performance ensemble as a key representative of Korea and an ambassador of the Tongyeong International Music Festival. It has been engaged in intense activities in and outside of Korea and comprised of excellent young musicians. Its first performance began with the "D-100 Concert of TIMF 2002". Since then, it has continuously expanded the range of repertoires and performances to date and established itself as a professional ensemble. With a variety of programs and high-quality performances, it gives fruitful and satisfactory pleasures to audiences of classic and contemporary music. It has concertized with some of the most renowned composers and pianists around the world, including Unsuk CHIN, TAN Dun, Heiner GOEBBELS, Heinz HOLLIGER, Toshio HOSOKAWA, Steve REICH, the Ensemble Modern, Martha ARGERICH, Sergei NAKARIAKOV, Gautier CAPUCON, Kazuhito YAMASHITA, and Schola HEIDELBERG. The ensemble's intense activities reach markets not only in Korea but also in foreign countries, and their excellence has been recognized internationally. They have performed in European concert stages, such as the Bacau Contemporary Music Festival in Romania, the Darmstadt International Contemporary Music Festival, the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the Venice Biennale, KlaraFestival in Belgium, Festival Presences. With "Ensemble TIMF Academy", which began in 2005, it has spearheaded a movement in providing superior education programs to post-generation of musicians. Ensemble TIMF's expansion of the performance fields will continue. With its freshly creative project planning and its wide range of repertoires from the classical to contemporary periods, it will continue to advance as one of the leading ensembles for the future of Korean music.
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