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Hyung tae Kim Bass Baritone

Recipient of INDEPENDENT OPERA Postgraduate Voice Fellowship (Royal Academy of Music)

Korean bass baritone Hyung tae Kim studied at Yonsei University and at the Royal Academy of Music with Mark Wildman and Audrey Hyland. Awards include the Henry Cummings award, a scholarship from the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company and first prize in the Seoul Symphony Orchestra contest.

In concert Hyung tae has featured as bass soloist in Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor at St. Barnabas Church for Leyton Buzzard’s Mozart Festival and St. Martin-in-the-Fields. He has performed Puccini’s Messa di Gloria and Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessor KV.339 at St. Luke’s in Ealing, Faure’s Requiem for St. Alban’s Church and Mozart’s Requiem for the Royal Academy of Music.

Operatic roles include Colline, Benoit, Alcindoro (La bohème) for Seoul Prime Orchestra and Yon sei Orchestra, Marco (L’arlesiana) for Seoul National Orchestra, Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro), Simone (Gianni Schicchi) and Bertrand (Iolanta) under the baton of Sir Colin Davies and Baburov (Paradise Moscow) for Royal Academy Opera.

Hyung tae has participated in masterclasses with Dennis O’Neill, Robert Tear, Diane Forlano, Barry Banks and Yvonne Kenny. He studied with Leo Nucci at the George Solti Accademia in 2007.