Andrew Kim
tenor
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The South Korean tenor Andrew Kim, Korean name Hyunjung Kim, joined Oper Frankfurt's Opera Studio in 2023, making his house debut singing Yamadori in Madama Butterfly. This was followed by a Shepherd in Daphne, Aceste in a new production of Mozart's Ascanio in Alba and Remendado in Carmen. During the 2024/25 season you can hear him as an Officer, 4th Squire and Architect in new productions of Henze's The Prince von Homburg, Wagner's Parsifal and Reimann's Melusine. He gained his bachelors at Yonsei University in Seoul before going to the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin in 2020 to study operatic singing for his masters and passing all his exams in 2022. He was awarded a scholarship and joined Youth Opera Hannover's ensemble for the 2017/18 season, during which he took part in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, the world premiere of Gregor A. Mayrhofer's children's opera The Three Spinning Ladies and Stephen McNeff's Ein sanfter Riese / A gentle journey, another opera for children. His repertoire includes Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) and Rodolfo (La Bohème). In 2022 Andrew Hyunjung Kim won the Musikverein in Vienna's Debut Concert Competition and the 2019 Pavarotti Vocal Competition, the same year he won prizes at the Suri Music Concours (Gunpo City) and Korean Voice Competition (Seoul). This winner of the Toti dal Monte competition sang Tamino in Die Zauberflöte in a co-production between the Teatro Comunale Mario del Monaco in Treviso and the Teatro Verdi in Padua in 2024