Ji-Min Park
Introduction
Ji-Min Park trained at the Seoul National University, South Korea, and at the Vienna Conservatory, Austria, as a student of Professor Carolyn Hague and was a Jette Parker Young Artist at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden from 2007-2009.
Ji-Min has won several awards including the Vienna Staatsoper Special Prize, the International Belvedere Singing Competition in Austria, First Prize and Audience Prize at the International Art Song Competition in France and the performance prize in the Stella Maris International Vocal Competition onboard MS EUROPA in 2009. Ji-Min represented Korea in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition 2009.
Ji-Min was as Jette Parker Principal Young Artist at the Royal Opera House in the 09/10 season, where roles included Sailor in 'Tristan und Isolde', Gastone in 'La Traviata', Rodolfo in 'La Boheme', Messenger in 'Aida' and covering Carlo in 'Linda di Chamounix', Des Grieux in 'Manon', and Alfredo in 'La Traviata'. Ji-Min joined the Royal Opera tour to Japan in the summer of 2010 to cover Des Grieux and sing Gastone in La Traviata and Handel’s Messiah in concert, conducted by Antonio Pappano.
In the 09/10 season Ji-Min represented Covent Garden in the Stella Maris International Vocal Competition onboard MS EUROPA, and was awarded European concerts. He gave recitals to open the Aalborg Opera Festival in Denmark, for the Royal Opera House lunchtime series, with Audley Male Voice Choir accompanied by Ingrid Surgenor, and with the JPYAP young artists in Gstaad, Switzerland accompanied by David Gowland.
In the 2010/11 season Ji-Min made his debut at Theatre du Capitole Toulouse as Rodolfo in La Boheme, covered Romeo in 'Romeo et Juliette' at Covent Garden, sang Rodolfo in 'La Boheme' for Opera Australia in Sydney and Melbourne. In concert he performed Beppe in 'Pagliacci' with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding, and gave Opera Galas with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken in Frankfurt and Karlsruhe.
In the 11/12 season Ji-Min performed Beethoven 9 with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim in Seoul, Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Rodolfo in 'La Boheme' with the New National Theatre Tokyo, Alfredo in 'La Traviata' for Opera Australia and returned to Covent Garden for Rinuccio in 'Gianni Schicchi' and Iopas in a new production of 'les Troyens', conducted by Antonio Pappano. Ji-Min also performed an Opera Gala concert for Opera North.
In the 12/13 season and beyond he makes his debut at La Fenice as Alfredo in 'La Traviata', returns to Opera Australia for Ernesto in 'Don Pasquale', performs Nemorino in 'L'elisir d'amore' and Gerald in 'Lakme' in Santiago, and makes his debut in Cincinnati as Nemorino in 'L'elisir d'amore'.