Faculty Biography

Soo Yeon Kim, Associate Professor


Contact:
(585) 389-2178
skim3@naz.edu

Departmental Responsibilities:
Applied Voice


Education:
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, DMA
Boston University, MM
New England Conservatory of Music, BM



Biography:
A winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council's Audition, San Francisco Opera, and the Bel Canto Opera Competition, Dr. Kim has been a leading coloratura soprano with many opera companies across the United States, Europe, and Asia. During the summer season of 2005, she sang as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in Rome, Italy. She also sang as Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir D'amore with the International Chamber Orchestra in Rome and Florence, Italy. Her recent opera performances include Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, Lucia in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Le Rossignol in Stravinsky's Le Rossignol, Despina in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein's Candide, Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, and Lucia in Britten's The Rape of Lucrecia with the Illinois Opera Theater, Aspen Opera Theater, New England Opera Theater, Boston Opera, and Harvard University Opera Theater.

Dr. Kim also has been a soprano soloist for many oratorios and orchestras. Her performance in Handel's Messiah with the Annapolis Symphony at the U.S. Naval Academy was telecast on PBS. She gave a successful New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall in 1998. In 2004, she also made an impressive Kennedy Center debut as a soloist with the Korean Symphony Orchestra. Her solo CD, Romantic Songs, with pianist Kevin Class, was released through the Orchard, NYC label. She is a recipient of a prestigious fellowship award from the Birkshire Music Center at Tanglewood and the Aspen Music Festival.