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Jaeyoon Kim

Jaeyoon Kim recently finished the Doctorate in Musical Arts in Vocal Performance at the University of South Carolina where he was the recipient of the Carroll Taussig Opera Fellowship. A native of Seoul, Korea, Kim holds two master’s degrees, one in Choral Conducting from USC and a second in Vocal performance from College Conservatory of Music in the University of Cincinnati. He also earned an Artist Diploma in Vocal Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music where he apprenticed with the Lyric Opera Cleveland and was chosen to participate in the prestigious Cleveland Art Song Festival.

Kim's operatic credits include the principal tenor roles in La Bohème, GianniSchicchi, Cosi fan tutte, Don Pasquale, Il viaggio a Reims, The Merry Widow, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Magic Flute, The Consul, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Monsieur Choufleuri and many others in Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Korea and Italy. As an active oratorio soloist, Dr. Kim has also performed in Messiah, Elijah, Creation, St. Paul, Mozart’s Requiem, Coronation Mass, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Verdi’s Requiem, Britten’s War Requiem and many others. He made his debut on the European stage by performing the role of Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte at the Opera Theatre of Lucca, Italy and later was invited to perform Beethoven’s Mass in C and Bizet’s Te Deum as a tenor soloist in the 2004 International Conducting Workshop in Varna, Bulgaria. He also appeared at the South Carolina Education TV for the production of Mozart’s Requiem, which he performed again with Augusta Symphony Orchestra, USC orchestra, and finally with USC Concert Choir at the Dürnstein Abbey, Austria in 2006.

Dr. Kim's teachers include Walter Cuttino, George Vassos and Barbara Honn. He has been chosen to sing master classes for Warren Jones, Elly Ameling, Dalton Baldwin, Sherill Milnes, and Steven Blier. Currently he is a member of the voice faculty at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and also serves as the music director of the First Korean Presbyterian Church of Charlotte.

Updated: Friday, January 11, 2008

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