Hyung tae Kim 
 

Korean bass baritone Hyung tae Kim studied at Yonsei University, Royal Academy of Music with Mark Wildman and Audrey Hyland and Cardiff International Academy of Voice. Awards include the Henry Cummings award, a scholarship from the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company,Fellowship from Independent Opera and first prize in the Seoul Symphony Orchestra contest.

In concert Hyung tae has featured as bass soloist in Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor at St. Barnabas Church for Leyton Buzzard’s Mozart Festival and St. Martin-in-the-Fields. He has performed Puccini’s Messa di Gloria and Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessor KV.339 at St. Luke’s in Ealing, Faure’s Requiem for St. Alban’s Church and Mozart’s Requiem for Royal Academy of Music.

Operatic roles include Colline, Benoit, Alcindoro in (La bohème) for Seoul Prime Orchestra and Yon sei Orchestra, Marco (L’arlesiana) for Seoul National Orchestra, Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro), Simone (Gianni Schicchi) and Bertrand (Iolanta) under the baton of Sir Colin Davies and Baburov (Paradise Moscow) for Royal Academy Opera.

Hyung tae has participated in masterclasses with Philip Kang, Dennis O’Neill, Robert Tear, Diane Forlano, Barry Banks, Yvonne Kenny,Ileana Cotrubas and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. He studied with Leo Nucci at the George Solti Accademia in 2007.