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Sumi Hwang
SopranoSouth Korean soprano Sumi Hwang completed her
studies at the National University of Seoul and the Hochschule für Musik in
Munich, where she studied with Frieder Lang, Donald Sulzen and Céline Dutilly
and took part in master classes with Helmut Deutsch, Andreas Schmidt, Dalton
Baldwin and Lorraine Nubar. Among her many competition successes she won First
Prize and the Audience Prize at the international Grandi Voci Competition in
Salzburg, First Prize at the Anneliese Rothenberger Competition in Konstanz and
the Emmerich Smola Förderpreis awarded by SWR.
After winning the Concours Reine Elisabeth
competition in Brussels, she became a member of the ensemble at the Theater
Bonn for four years, where she debuted in roles such as Micaëla in Carmen, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and
Susanna in Le nozze di
Figaro, while also appearing on stage as Liù in a revival of Turandot. Expanding her
roles, she went on to perform 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). Other notable
appearances have included the title role of Lena in Marius Felix Lange's
opera Vom Mädchen, das
nicht schlafen wollte and her debut at the Vienna Kammeroper
as Fiordiligi under the direction of Stefan Vladar.
Sumi Hwang has attracted international
attention following guest appearances as Pamina at the Grand Théâtre de Genève,
Norina in Donizetti's I
pazzi per progetto at the Prinzregententheater in Munich, and
as the Princess in Ravel's L'enfant
et les sortilèges at the Korean National Opera in Seoul. At
the Daegu Opera House she appeared again as Mimì, while with the Orchester
Wiener Akademie she performed as a soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, taking her
to both the Vienna Musikverein and on tour to South Korea. She was further
heard as Micaëla in a new production at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden,
where she became a permanent ensemble member in the 2021/2022 season. She
subsequently appeared there in roles including Donna Anna (Don Giovanni),
Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Ilia (Idomeneo) and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte).
As a lied singer, Sumi Hwang regularly collaborates
with pianist Helmut Deutsch, with whom she has performed various recitals in
Europe and Asia, making her debut as part of the Rosenblatt Recitals at
London's Wigmore Hall. Her first solo debut album with lieder/songs by Franz
Liszt, Benjamin Britten and Richard Strauss – together with Helmut Deutsch –
was released in 2019.
On the concert stage, the soprano has given
numerous performances with Dvořák's Requiem in
Munich's Herkulessaal, Brahms’ Ein
deutsches Requiem with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, selected
concert arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under
Sakari Oramo, Mozart's Requiem with
the Netherlands Radio Orchestra conducted by Markus Stenz at the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw, Christian Jost's Dichterliebe recomposed
at the Tongyeong International Music Festival, and the premiere of Unsuk Chin's
solo piece for soprano and orchestra Puzzles
and Games from Alice in Wonderland in 2017 under Christoph
Eschenbach. Additional performances include a series of concert performances of
Puccini's La Bohème with
the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and his opera Fidelio with the Norwegian Stavanger
Symphony Orchestra.
With Unsuk Chin's Puzzles and Games from Alice in
Wonderland, Sumi Hwang made her debut with the Helsinki
Philharmonic Orchestra, while she performed Strauss' Four Last Songs as a
guest soloist with the Copenhagen Philharmonic conducted by Sebastian Weigle.
Other performances include Brahms' Ein
deutsches Requiem and the Japanese premiere of Daniel
Schnyder's oratorio The
Revelation of St. John with the Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra
under Sebastian Weigle, Beethoven's Symphony
No. 9 with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä,
and selected songs by Gustav Mahler with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under
Hans Graf. Among other appearances in the current season, Sumi Hwang can be
heard as soloist in Ein
deutsches Requiem with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under
Sebastian Weigle.
Since September 2022 Sumi Hwang has been
working as a professor of singing at Kyunghee University in Seoul.
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