Sung Min Song

{{Short description|South Korean opera singer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Sung Min Song | image = | caption = | birth_date =  | birth_place = Seoul, South Korea | education = Musikhochschule München

| website = {{URL|https://www.tenorsong.com/}} }} '''Sung Min Song''' ('''송성민''', '''Song Sung-min''') is a South Korean operatic tenor who has performed internationally, based in Germany. He is focused on Italian opera and 19th-century oratorios including Puccini's ''Messa di Gloria'' and Verdi's Requiem. A member of the Saarländisches Staatstheater from 2017, he is capable of performing tenor roles with a high tessitura such as Arnold in Rossini's ''Guillaume Tell''.

== Life and career == Song Sung min was born in Seoul. He was first an informatics engineer.<ref name="Dennert" /> His church choir director advised him to turn to solo singing, and he began to study it at age 26.<ref name="Dennert" /> He studied further from 2011 at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, singing in the opera chorus of the Bavarian State Opera from the 2012/13 season.<ref name="Dennert" /> He studied in the master class of {{ill|Frieder Lang|de}} from 2011 to 2015, and during the last year also Belcanto with Daniel Kotlinski.<ref name="Rising Stars" />

After his studies, Song became soon a soloist of international demand. In 2014, he appeared in a concert version of ''Feuersnot'', with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester conducted by Ulf Schirmer. It was recorded by CPO.<ref name="Feuersnot" />

In the 2024/25 season, tenor Sung Min Song sang “Cavalleria Rusticana”, “La Traviata” (live broadcast by Opera Vision), Puccini’s opera “Il Trittico” at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, “Dvořák Stabat Mater” (live broadcast in Europe) with the MDR Radio Orchestra and Chorus at the Gewandhaus Leipzig (conductor: Dennis Russell Davies), “Verdi Requiem” with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra under the direction of the world-famous conductor Kent Nagano, Mendelssohn’s “Lobgesang” (live broadcast on the radio) with the Prague Radio Orchestra, “Bruckner’s Te Deum & Janáček, Glagolitic Mass” with members of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, “Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9” under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach at the National Music Forum in Wrocław and Warsaw Philharmonic, “Beethoven's 9th Symphony” also at the Cologne Philharmonic with the WDR Radio Choir, at the Aachen State Theatre and the Münster Theatre, and “Bruckner - Mass No. 3 in F minor” with the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra as well as “Rusalka”, “La Traviata” at the Osnabrück Theatre and Oskar Gottlieb Blarr's “The Jesus Passion” with members of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in St. Michael's, “Star & Rising Star Festival in Munich” with cellist Jan Vogler, “Max Bruch: The Song of the Bell, op. 45” with the Göttingen University Orchestra, an opera gala at the Osnabrück Theatre, and the Verdi Requiem with the Vogtland Philharmonic in Würzburg.

In the 2025/26 season he will sing “Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis” in Pisa Cathedral under the direction of conductor Hartmund Hänchen, followed by “Lucrezia Borgia” (Operavision livestream) at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and “The Flying Dutchman (Erik)” with the Mozarteum Orchestra at the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg. He also sings "Beethoven's 9th Symphony" with the Munich Symphony Orchestra in the Isarphilharmonie Munich, Liederhalle in Stuttgart, and Lundaland Filharmoniska Orkester in Sweden and with WDR Radio Choir in the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, "Dvorak Stabat Mater" at the "National Music Forum" in Breslau under the direction of the world-famous conductor "Christoph Eschenbach" and with Philharmonisches Orchester Regensburg, "Rossini's Petite Messe Solemnis" with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the German State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate and in Hamburg, "Verdi Requiem" at the Rheingau Festival and Hamburg, "Mozart Requiem" in the Rosengarten in Mannheim, "Verdi Requiem" at the Audi Summer Concert in Ingolstadt, "Verdi Requiem" in Brixen, "Dvorak Requiem" in Munich, "Puccini Messa di Gloria" and "Dvorak Stabat Mater" in the Lutherkirche Wiesbaden, Opera Gala at the Alteoper Frankfurt and "La Traviata" at the Theater Osnabrück, Bach: Mass in B minor in St. Thomas Church in Leipzig as well as a concert tour "Verdi Requiem" with the State Academy for Music-Making Youth in Baden-Württemberg in Germany and Budapest Hungary.

Song performed as a guest at the Opéra de Marseille, the Opéra national de Lorraine, and at the festivals Munich Opera Festival, Tiroler Festspiele in Erl, Rheingau Musik Festival, Kissinger Sommer<ref name="Saarbrücken" /> and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. At the Star & Rising Stars Festival in Munich, he performed alongside Simone Kermes on 17 July 2021.<ref name="Rising Stars" /> He sang at the Berliner Philharmonie, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Gasteig in Munich, Kölner Philharmonie, Alte Oper in Frankfurt and Palau de la Música de València, among others.<ref name="Saarbrücken" /> In 2019, he performed as Arnold again at the {{ill|Tiroler Festspiele Erl|de}}, an Austrian opera festival, conducted by Michael Güttler.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ritterband |first=Charles E. |url=https://klassik-begeistert.de/category/tiroler-festspiele-erl/ |title=Rossinis "Guillaume Tell" als Gesamtkunstwerk in Erl |website=Klassik begeistert |date=18 July 2019 |access-date=3 November 2019 |language=de}}</ref> In the 2022/23 season, Song portrayed the Prince in Dvořák's ''Rusalka'' at the Komische Oper Berlin, directed by Barrie Kosky.<ref name="Rising Stars" /><!--Der Künstler wurde bei Wettbewerben mit zahlreichen Auszeichnungen geehrt, so beim Richard-Strauss-Gesangswettbewerb zweite Preis, Anneliese Rothenberger Preis, Musikpreis des Kulturkreises Gasteig, Luitpold-Preis des Kissinger Sommers, 33° Concorso Internazionale Valsesia Musica 3. Preis, Zweiter Preis beim Hariclea Darclée Festival International Voice Competition und Grand Prix und Prix Special ADAMI beim Concours International de Belcanto Vincenzo Bellini in Paris.

Sung Min Song wurde von Klangkörpern wie den WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, MDR-Sinfonieorchester, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Bamberger Symphoniker, Orquesta de Valencia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, begleitet – unter der Leitung von Dirigenten wie Kent Nagano, Alain Altinoglu, Domingo Hindoyan, Rani Calderon, Lawrence Foster, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Sebastian Rouland, Ulf Schirmer, Yaron Traub, Michael Güttler.-->

=== Concert === In 2016, Song took part in a radio production of Bayerischer Rundfunk of Rossini's Stabat Mater with the Bamberger Symphoniker conducted by Alain Altinoglu.<ref name="Saarbrücken" /> The same year, he was the solo tenor in Beethoven's Missa solemnis in two performances in Valencia, with soloists Simona Šaturová, Elisabeth Kulman, and his teacher Kotlinski, the Philharmonia Chorus and the Orquesta de Valencia conducted by Yaron Traub.<ref name="Sola" /> In 2018, he sang in performances of Verdi's ''Messa da Requiem''; Kent Nagano conducted both at the Rheingau Musik Festival<ref>{{cite web|title=Requiem für Enoch zu Guttenberg|periodical=|publisher=|url=https://www.fr.de/kultur/musik/requiem-enoch-guttenberg-11038451.html|url-status=|access-date=3 November 2019|archive-url=|archive-date=|last=|date=30 June 2018|language=de|pages=|quote=}}</ref> and at the Herkulessaal of the Residenz in Munich in memory of Enoch zu Guttenberg.<ref name="Saarbrücken" /> MDR Kultur aired a concert of Puccini's ''Messa di Gloria'' with the MDR Orchestra and MDR Rundfunkchor conducted by Domingo Hindoyan at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, opening the saison in 2019.<ref name="MDR">{{cite web |url=https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7880/4364922 |title=Musica Sacra: Saisoneröffnung mit den MDR-Ensembles im Gewandhaus |date=3 September 2019 |publisher = MDR Kultur |access-date=3 November 2019 |language=de}}</ref> He performed the part also with Philharmonischer Chor Bochum and Bochumer Symphoniker, conducted by Magdalena Klein at the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr the same year.<ref name="Bochum">{{cite magazine |title=Chorkonzert Gloria! |magazine=Jour |url=https://www.bochumer-symphoniker.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Journal_2_Jan-Mrz_2020.pdf |access-date=18 October 2018 |date= |language=de |pages=12–13}}</ref> On 3 October 2022, he sang Verdi's Requiem again, with Talia Or, Silvia Hauer, Johannes Hill, Chor von St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden and members of the Hessisches Staatsorchester conducted by Johannes Schröder, in a version for small ensemble.<ref name="Boni" /><ref name="Stern" /> <!-- === Opernrollen und Engagements (Auswahl) === {| class="wikitable sortable" !Debüt in !Rolle ! |- |2017-09 |Arnold Melchtal (''Guillaume Tell'') | * Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken<ref name=":3">{{Internetquelle |autor=Oliver Schwambach |url=https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/saar-kultur/saarlaendisches-staatstheater-landet-mit-lustige-witwe-riesen-erfolg_aid-46777257 |titel=Schnipp, schnipp, diese Witwe ist der Hit |werk=Saarbrücker Zeitung |hrsg= |datum=2019-10-27 |abruf=2019-10-28 |sprache=}}</ref> * Tiroler Festspiele Erl, Juli 2019<ref>{{Internetquelle |autor=Michael Tanzler |url=https://onlinemerker.com/erl-tiroler-festspiele-guillaume-tell-wiederaufnahme/ |titel=ERL/ Tiroler Festspiele: GUILLAUME TELL (Wiederaufnahme) |werk=Online Merker |hrsg= |datum=2019-07-14 |abruf=2019-07-16 |sprache=}}</ref> |- |2017-10 |Tamino (''Zauberflöte'') |Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken<ref>{{Internetquelle |autor= |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8cq1r_GS7A |titel=Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (Videodokument der Aufführung der Zauberflöte am 11. Nov. 2017 am Saarländischen Staatstheater) |werk= |hrsg= |datum=2017-11-28 |zugriff=2018-01-30 |sprache=}}</ref> |- |2018-01 |Trinculo (''Der Sturm'' von Frank Martin) |Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken<ref>{{Internetquelle |autor=Kerstin Krämer |url=https://m.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/kultur/sz-kultur/raenke-rache-ruchlosigkeit_aid-7118354 |titel=„Der Sturm“ am Saarländischen Staatstheater Ränke, Rache, Ruchlosigkeit (Premierenkritik) |werk= |hrsg=Saarbrücker Zeitung |datum=2018-01-28 |zugriff=2018-01-30 |sprache=}}</ref> |- |2018-05 |Ferrando (''Così fan tutte'') |Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken<ref>{{Internetquelle |autor=Oliver Schwambach |url=https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/kultur/sz-kultur/tanztee-statt-frauentausch_aid-22609173 |titel=„Cosi fan tutte“ am Saarländischen Staatstheater: Tanztee statt Frauentausch |werk= |hrsg=Saarbrücker Zeitung |datum=2018-05-13 |zugriff=2018-05-15 |sprache=}}</ref> |- |2018-08 |Alfredo Germont ''(La traviata)'' |Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken |- |2019-03 |Ein Sänger (''Der Rosenkavalier'') |Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken<ref>{{Internetquelle |autor=Saarländisches Staatstheater |url=https://www.staatstheater.saarland/nc/stuecke/musiktheater/detail/der-rosenkavalier/ |titel=detail |zugriff=2019-03-25}}</ref> |- |2019-05 |Faust ''(Faust, Gounod)'' |Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken<ref>{{Internetquelle |autor=Michael Schneider |url=https://www.sr.de/sr/sr2/themen/kultur/20190601_faust_am_staatstheater_premierenkritik100.html |titel="Man bleibt ratlos zurück - aber bestens unterhalten" Premierenkritik: Charles Gounods "Faust" im Saarländischen Staatstheater |werk=SR 2 Kulturradio |hrsg= |datum=2019-06-01 |abruf=2019-06-01 |sprache=}}</ref> |- |2019-10 |Camille de Rosillon ''(Die lustige Witwe)'' | * Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken<ref name=":3" /> * Theater und Orchester Heidelberg (Dez. 2019) |- |}

=== Konzertrepertoire === * Ludwig van Beethoven: ''Missa solemnis''<ref name="Sola" /> * Antonín Dvořák: ''Stabat Mater''<ref>{{Internetquelle |autor=Dietrich Stern |url=http://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/lokales/kultur/lokale-kultur/leid-und-schmerz-einer-mutter--schiersteiner-kantorei-singt-unter-der-leitung-von-martin-lutz-stabat-mater-in-der-marktkirche_17777617.htm |titel=Rezension: Leid und Schmerz einer Mutter – Schiersteiner Kantorei singt unter der Leitung von Martin Lutz „Stabat Mater“ in der Marktkirche |werk= |hrsg=Wiesbadener Kurier |datum=2017-03-27 |zugriff=2018-01-30 |sprache=}}</ref> * Georg Friedrich Händel: ''Messiah''<ref>{{Internetquelle |autor= |url=https://www.lokalezeitung.de/2018/12/31/eine-beeindruckende-auffuehrung/ |titel=Eine beeindruckende Aufführung |werk=Lokale Zeitung |hrsg= |datum=2018-12-31 |zugriff=2019-02-07 |sprache=}}</ref> * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ''Requiem'' * Gioachino Rossini: ''Stabat Mater''<ref>{{Internetquelle |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4EeblvZ7D0 |titel=Rossini Stabat Mater cujus animam gementem Tenor : sung min Song |hrsg=Youtube |abruf=2019-11-03}}</ref> * Giuseppe Verdi: ''Requiem''<ref>{{Internetquelle |autor= |url=https://osthessen-news.de/festspiele/n11536823/ben-becker-und-200-musiker-bringen-verdi-requiem-auf-die-ruinenbuehne.html |titel=Ben Becker und 200 Musiker bringen Verdi-Requiem auf die Ruinenbühne |werk= |hrsg=Osthessen News |datum=2016-08-07 |zugriff=2018-01-30 |sprache=}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> * Gioachino Rossini: ''Petite Messe solennelle''<ref>{{Internetquelle |autor= |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTGQ3epuNpk |titel=Gioachino Rossini "Petite messe solennelle" "domine Deus" |werk= |hrsg=Youtube |datum= |abruf=2019-11-03 |sprache=}}</ref>

== Preise und Auszeichnungen == * 1. Grand Prix Vincenzo Bellini und Prix Spécial ADAMI beim Concours International de Belcanto Vincenzo Bellini 2015<ref name=":0">{{Internetquelle |autor= |url=http://website.musikhochschule-muenchen.de/de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1920&Itemid=1 |titel=Sungmin Song gewinnt Concours International de Belcanto Vincenzo Bellini 2015 |werk= |hrsg=Hochschule für Musik und Theater München |datum= |zugriff=2018-01-30 |sprache=}}</ref> * 2. Preis beim Hariclea Darclée Festival and International Voice Competition 2017 * 3. Preis beim 33° Concorso Internazionale Valsesia Musica 2017 * Luitpoldpreis (Künstler des Jahres 2015 beim Kissinger Sommer)<ref>{{Internetquelle |url=http://xn--frdervereinkissingersommer-cvc.de/pages/de/archiv.php |titel=Förderverein Kissinger Sommer - Archiv |zugriff=2018-02-07}}</ref> * Sonderpreis beim Wettbewerb 2015 des Kulturkreises Gasteig<ref>[http://website.musikhochschule-muenchen.de/de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1729&Itemid=588 ''Gewinner beim Kulturkreis Gasteig Musikpreis''], abgerufen am 7. Februar 2018.</ref> * Förderpreis beim Richard-Strauss-Gesangswettbewerb 2015<ref>[http://www.richard-strauss-gesellschaft.org/index.php/aktuelles ''Richard Strauss Gesellschaft - Aktuelles''], abgerufen am 7. Februar 2018.</ref> * Anneliese-Rothenberger-Förderpreis 2013 im Fach Gesang<ref>[https://www.europaeisches-kulturforum-mainau.com/a-rothenberger-wettbewerb/ehemalige-preistr%C3%A4ger/ ''Europäisches KulturForum Mainau e.V. - Ehemalige Preisträger''], abgerufen am 7. Februar 2018.</ref>-->

== Recordings == * Strauss: ''Feuersnot.'', as Ortlieb Tulbeck. Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmer. CD CPO 2014.<ref name="Feuersnot" /> * Rossini: ''Guillaume Tell'', as Arnold. Saarländisches Staatsorchester, Sébastien Rouland. ARTE Concert 2017<ref name=":4">{{cite web|title="Guillaume Tell" von Rossini aus dem Staatstheater Saarbrücken (Videostream)|periodical=|publisher=ARTE Concert|url=https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/079677-000-A/guillaume-tell-von-rossini/|url-status=|format=|access-date=29 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131081114/https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/079677-000-A/guillaume-tell-von-rossini/|archive-date=31 January 2018|last=|date=|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}}</ref> * Rossini: Stabat Mater, Bamberger Symphoniker, Alain Altinoglu. BR-Klassik 19 July 2016<ref name="Saarbrücken" /> * Oskar Gottlieb Blarr: ''Jesus-Passion'', with Gloria Rehm, Silvia Hauer, Johannes Hill, Markus Volpert, Bachorchester Wiesbaden, conducted by {{ill|Jörg Endebrock|de}}. Cybele Records 2018<ref name="Greenbank" /> * Puccini: ''Messa di Gloria''. MDR-Sinfonieorchester and MDR-Rundfunkchor, Domingo Hindoyan. Livestreming from Gewandhaus 2019.<ref name="MDR" />

== References == <references>

<ref name="Dennert">{{cite news | last = Dennert | first = Leslie | url = https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/kultur/sz-kultur/vom-buero-auf-die-buehne_aid-6891644 | title = Neu am Staatstheater: Vom Büro auf die Bühne | newspaper = Saarbrücker Zeitung | date = 9 November 2017 | language = de | access-date = 29 January 2018 }}</ref>

<ref name="Greenbank">{{cite news | last = Greenbank | first = Stephen | url = http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2019/Feb/Blarr_passion_KIG010.htm | title = Oskar Gottlieb Blarr (b. 1934) / Jesus-Passion | newspaper = musicweb-international.com | date = February 2019 | access-date = 10 October 2022 }}</ref>

<ref name="Stern">{{cite news | last = Stern | first = Dietrich | url = https://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/kultur/musik/wiesbaden-verdis-requiem-in-st-bonifatius_25749793 | title = Wiesbaden: Verdis "Requiem" in St. Bonifatius | newspaper = Allgemeine Zeitung | date = 5 October 2022 | access-date = 5 October 2022 }}</ref>

<ref name="Boni">{{cite web | url = https://www.bonifatius-wiesbaden.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2022/10/3/chorkonzert | title = Chorkonzert: Requiem von Giuseppe Verdi | publisher = St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden | date = September 2022 | language = de | access-date = 4 October 2022 }}</ref>

<ref name="Feuersnot">{{cite web | url = https://www.rundfunkorchester.de/cd-dvd/3712-2/ | title = Richard Strauss: Feuersnot | publisher = Münchner Rundfunkorchester | date = | language = de | access-date = 3 November 2019 }}</ref>

<ref name="Rising Stars">{{cite web | url = https://static1.squarespace.com/static/532eaa00e4b0c5a9ade321bc/t/60c326c86fd29575fedd119e/1623402189477/Programmheft_Stars7_2021_final2.pdf | title = Stars & Rising Stars zum 5. Mal in München | publisher = Stars & Rising Stars Festival | date = July 2021 | language = de | access-date = 10 October 2022 }}</ref>

<ref name="Saarbrücken">{{cite news | url = https://www.staatstheater.saarland/menschen/hinter-der-buehne/backstage/sung-min-song | title = Sung Min Song | publisher = Staatstheater Saarland | date = 2022 | language = de | access-date = 10 October 2022 }}</ref>

<ref name="Sola">{{cite web | last = Sola | first = Rosà | url = http://valenciaplaza.com/la-missa-solemnis-de-beethoven-todo-un-reto | title = La "Missa Solemnis" de Beethoven: todo un reto | website = valenciaplaza.com | date = 5 December 2016 | language = es | access-date = 30 January 2018 }}</ref>

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== External links == * {{official website|https://tenorssm.wixsite.com/tenorssm}} * [https://www.operabase.com/artists/sung-min-song-32388/de Sung Min Song] Operabase * {{discogs artist}} * {{YouTube|uwAYu6-tedQ|Verdi Requiem "Ingemisco"}} * {{YouTube|zBonO8fvc1I|Guillaume Tell (Rossini) - Asile hereditaire...Amis, secondez ma vengeance}}

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