Seungwoo Simon Yang

The tenor Seungwoo Simon Yang was born in 1997 in South Korea. Since October 2018 he has studied with Carolyn James at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. From 2020 to 2023 he was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera, and since the start of the 2023/24 season he has been a member of the company’s ensemble. In 2022 he took part in the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival.

Seungwoo Simon Yang is a prize-winner of numerous competitions in South Korea and Germany. In 2014 he won first prize at the Ewha-Kyunghyang Music Competition, the Shin Youngok Singing Competition and the Shinhan Music Awards, and in 2018 he won second prize and a special prize at the Maritime Music Awards. In 2020 he won first prize in the Mozart Prize Awards and the Elise Meyer Foundation Competition at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, and also at the Gustav Mahler Competition for Lied duos in Hamburg. In 2022 he was a finalist in the international Neue Stimmen competition.

In student productions, Seungwoo Simon Yang sang roles such as Ferrando (Così fan tutte) and Pilade in Handel’s pasticcio Oreste. At the Hamburg State Opera, he has to date sang roles including Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Jaquino (Fidelio), Pong (Turandot) and, in June 2024, Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore). In the 2024/25 season he will appear in Hamburg as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Fenton (Falstaff) and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte). He has performed in numerous concerts in South Korea and Europe. In April 2024 he made his US debut as the tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck at Heinz Hall.