BIOGRAPHY

Having been recently profiled in Opera News, Korean soprano Hana Park is making waves in the United States, and is recognized as a fresh new talent on the rise.  A 2010 National Semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, she recently sang Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Cincinnati May Festival, and returned to Wolf Trap to sing both the title role in Mozart’s Zaide, and excerpts from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with the National Symphony Orchestra in a program entitled “West Side Story & More!” Upcoming appearances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Louisville Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah with the Handel Oratorio Society – Augustana College, a return to the Cincinnati May Festival for Haydn’s Heiligmesse, and an appearance in the rarely seen Cavalli opera Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera in New York.  In the summer of 2009 at Wolf Trap Opera she performed the roles of Mimi in La bohème and Amor in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria.   Of her Mimi the Washington Post declared that, “As the emotional center of the opera, she glowed.”   She was also recently heard as the soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s May Festival, conducted by James Conlon.

At Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Hana has been featured as Nanetta in Falstaff, Mimi in La bohème and Lucrezia in Lucrezia Legende, as well as performing Haydn’s Harmoniemesse with the CCM Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra.  She has also appeared in concert with the Ashville Symphony Orchestra for the Beethoven Mass in C and Musica Sacra for both Handel’s Messiah and the Coronation Mass of Mozart.  In the summer of 20008 Ms. Park was a participant of the Tanglewood Music Festival, where she had the opportunity to work in a master class setting with Maestro James Levine and Phillis Curtin.  There she sang the role of the Maiden in Kurt Wiell’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny as well as György Kurtág’s Kafka-Fragmente op.24 and selections from the Spanisches Liederbuch by Hugo Wolf.

A native of Seoul, South Korea and graduate of Seoul National University Hana has performed the roles of Violetta in La traviata and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte in Seoul. She was also a featured soprano soloist in Seoul National University’s performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 4. She is the recipient of the Corbett Award and Italo Tajo Memorial Award of the Corbett Opera Competition at CCM, and Grand-Prix and Audience Award from The Seventh International Lied Competition of Japanischen Schubert – Gesellschaft abroad. 

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