Instrument: Soprano
1999 | Byung-Soon Lee, Soprano
Oct. 2, 1999
The Kennedy Center
Byung-Soon Lee, soprano, a native of South Korea, received her Bachelor of Music degree at Yon-Sei University in Seoul, Korea. The Korean Concert Society presented Byung-Soon for her recital debut with pianist Xak Bjerken at the Terrace Theater in October 1999. She won various competitions in Korea-the KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) Young Artist Competition, Dongah Music Competition, and many more. She received her Master of Music degree at Peabody Conservatory of Music of the Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland where she studied with Ruth Drucker and Mark Markham and completed the prestigious Artist Diploma program.
More2012 | Jegyung Yang, Soprano
Jan. 28, 2012
Korean Cultural Center
South Korean soprano Jegyung Yang is in her second year of Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program. This season she appears with WNO as Despina in Così fan tutte (Emerging Artist Performances), and the Shepherd Boy in Tosca, and with the National Symphony Orchestra as Marzelline in Fidelio. Last season’s credits included the First Priestess in Iphigénie en Tauride and the Slave in Salome with WNO, First Lady in Die Zauberflöte with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and a concert recital with the Dolce Suono Trio. Ms. Yang recently won first prize in Florida Grand Opera’s YPO Voice Competition (2011). Other awards include first prize overall and three special prizes at the Eighth International Osaka Music Competition in Japan (2007); third prize in the Twelfth International Competition of Singing in Bilbao, Spain in 2008; and the “Concorso Internazionale Voci Nuove per la Lirica contest in Pavia”, Italy in 2009. This season, Ms. Yang received the second prize at the China International Vocal Competition in Ningbo.
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