Tae Hwan Yun

The Korean tenor Tae Hwan Yun received his musical training at the University of Suwon and at the Mannheim University of Music and the Performing Arts. In 2019 he won third prize at the International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition in Vienna, and in 2022 he was a finalist in the Emmerich Smola Promotional Prize. In 2023 he was awarded first prize in the competition ‘Das Lied’ in Heidelberg.

Following his first stage appearances as Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) in South Korea, Tae Hwan Yun was a member of the Opera Studio of the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern from 2018 to 2020, singing roles including Belmonte in a children’s version of Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Iskra in Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa.

In the 2021/22 season he sang Lord Cecil (Roberto Devereux) at Theater Passau, Don Riccardo (Ernani) and First Mandarin in Clemens von Franckenstein’s opera Li-Tai-Pe at Theater Bonn and Goro (Madama Butterfly) at the Eutiner Festival.

Since the 2022/23 season Tae Hwan Yun has been an ensemble member of Theater Bonn, where he has sung roles including Lenzmar in Schreker’s Der singende Teufel, Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Youth/Naked Youth in Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron and Truffaldino (The Love for Three Oranges).

He made his debut at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein as Major-Domo and Abbate di Chazeuil in Adriana Lecouvreur and will return there in 2025 as Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte).

Tae Hwan Yun has recently appeared in recital at the Festival Lied Würzburg and at the Heidelberg Spring Festival.