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General | | Biography: | Yeonjune Suh began her voice studies at the age of 14 in her native city of Seoul, Korea. Following graduation from the prestigious Sunwha Art Middle and High School, whose alumni include Sumi Jo and Young Ok Shin, she was awarded a scholarship to the Chicago College of Music of Roosevelt University where she studied with Carmen Mehta. Following her dream to study in Italy, she was then accepted to the esteemed Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milano, where she studied with admired teachers such as Maria Luisa Cioni, Katia Angeloni, and Stefano Gibellato, earned a Diploma, and was granted a Voice Fellowship. After graduating, she was invited to participate in the Conservatorio’s selective Post-Graduate teaching program.
She has appeared in concerts and opera productions throughout the Italian cities of Milano, Bergamo, Bari, Tocco dei Casauria and Taranto, Sicilia, and in January 2001, performed a principal role in Die Zauberflote at the Art Center in Seoul. Ms. Suh recently graduated from Mannes The New School for Music in New York City where she was accepted in the Opera Program under the direction of Joseph Colaneri, Susan Caldwell, and Ted Taylor and studied privately with Ruth Falcon. While in New York, she has appeared on stage as Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, as Barena in the Vertical Players Repetoire production of Janacek’s Jenufa, as Musetta in the Amato Opera Company’s productions of Puccinni’s La Boheme, and as Sandrina in Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera with The Little Opera Company. In March 2006, performed the lead role of Adina in the New Jersey State Repertory Opera’s production of L’elisir d’amore.
Ms. Suh recently returned from Texas, where she participated in the El Paso Young Artist Program as Papagena in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. She has also been a finalist in the Harold Haugh Light Opera Competition and Camillo de Nardis Competition, and has received third prize in the Mario Lanza Competition as well as an encouragement grant from from the Gerda Lisner Foundation. Her current teachers are Patricia McCaffrey and Kevin Murphy of the Metropolitan Opera.
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