Andrew Kim
tenor
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South Korean tenor Andrew Kim, Korean name Hyunjung Kim, gained his bachelors at Yonsei University in Seoul before going to the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin to study operatic singing for his masters, passing all his exams in 2022. He was awarded a scholarship to join Youth Opera Hannover's ensemble for the 2017/18 season. He won the Musikverein in Vienna's 2022 Debut Concert Competition and 2019 Pavarotti Vocal Competition, the same year he won prizes from the Suri Music Concouers (Gunpo City) and the Korean Voice Competition in Seoul. He was a member of Frankfurt's Opera Studio from 2023-25, during which time roles included Aceste, 4th Squire and an Architect in new productions of Ascanio in Alba, Parsifal and Reimann's Melusine. This winner of the 2024 Toti dal Monte competition sang Tamino in Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro Comunale Mario del Monaco in Treviso, the Teatro Verdi in Padua and Teatro Sociale di Rovigo. This season he sang Ferrando in Così fan tutte at Oper Frankfurt, in Rovigo, Treviso and Padova and Gastone in La traviata at the Bregenz Festival.