Song Jaemin
No. 49
Voice type: Baritone/Bass-baritone
Country: Korea, South
Date of birth: 26 September, 1991
Korean baritone Jaemin Song was born in Uijeongbu in 1991 and studied singing at University of Suwon with Alexander Mogilevets in his home country. He took master classes in Würzburg with Prof. Monika Bürgener, in Nuremberg with Prof. Dr. Edith Wiens and Maestro Will Humburg. He is studying his master’s degree at the Nuremberg University of Music with Jan Hammar.
In South Korea he was Simone in Giacomo Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Colline in La bohème, in Germany as Schaunard in La bohème, as Sancho Pansa in Georg Philipp Telemann’s Don Quixote at the Wedding of Comacho, as Figaro and Bartolo in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Es muss ein Wunderbares sein
Tchaikovsky: Ya vas lyublyu – Yeletsky’s aria from The Queen of Spades
Donizetti: Bella siccome un angelo – Malatesta’s aria from Don Pasquale
Semi-final
Mozart: Hai già vinta la causa!... Vedro, mentr’io sospiro – Count Almaviva’s recitative and aria from Le nozze di Figaro
Korngold: Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen – Fritz’s aria from Die tote Stadt
Final
Wagner: Wie Todesahnung… O du, mein holder Abendstern – Wolfram’s recitative and Song to the Evening Star from Tannhäuser
Bizet: Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre – Toreador Song from Carmen
Gounod: O sante médaille… Avant de quitter ces lieux – Valentin’s recitative and aria from Faust