About
Praised as a singer of “exquisite clarity” and “virtuosity,” lyric soprano Misook Yun has performed in Italy, Austria, South Korea, and the United States of America.
An accomplished operatic performer, Yun has appeared in the roles of Mimi & Musetta (La Bohème),Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly),Tosca (Tosca),Nedda (I Pagliacci),Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana),Micaela (Carmen),Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore),High Priestess (Aida),Violetta (La Traviata),Suzel (L’Amico Fritz),and Genevieve (Suor Angelica).Her engagements were with the Eugene Opera, Opera Fort Collins, Opera Western Reserve, the Bayshore Lyric Opera, Opera Circle, the Valley Lyric Opera, and the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra.
As a concert soloist, Yun appeared with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tuscon Symphony Orchestra, the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dana Symphony Orchestra, the Ashtabula Area Orchestra, and the Umpqua Symphony Orchestra. Her orchestral performances include Mahler's "Symphony No. 2," Beethoven's "Symphony No. 9," Vivaldi’s "Gloria," J. S. Bach’s "Magnificat," "Chants d'Auvergne," "Elijah," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Faure’s "Requiem," "Carmina Burana," "Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5," Schubert's "Mass in G," Mozart’s "Requiem," and Handel’s "Messiah."
She has given solo, gala, and chamber recitals in South Korea, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Oregon, Virginia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. As a chamber musician, she won the Pittsburgh Concert Society audition in 2012.
Yun was the audience choice winner at the Classical Signer Convention in May 2010 in New York City, and was selected by Classical Singer as a “Certified Classical Singer,” having advanced to the final round in the professional category at the 2007 Classical Singer Convention competition. She was featured in the January 2008 and September 2010 editions of the Classical Singermagazine. Her other competition winnings include first prize of the Metropolitan Opera Competition in the Oregon District, the concerto competition at the University of Oregon, and first prize in the Paul & Lillian Petri Scholarship Competition, which enabled her to study abroad in Austria and Italy.
She has studied and coached with Mark Beudert, Tae-Hee Cho, Eun-Kyung Kim, Gregory Mason, Lorenzo Malfatti, Robert McIver, James Miller, John Simmons, and Milagro Vargas, as well as participated in masterclasses with Martina Arroyo, Eva Marton, Marcia Baldwin, Vera Scammon, and Norman Shetler.
An accomplished pedagogue, in the summer of 2004 she was one of the 12 National Association of Teachers of Singing interns chosen throughout North America. She recently participated in OperaWorks’s Artist Teacher Training program. Yun has been invited to be part of the summer faculty at the Summer Music Study in Hungary's program in Szeged.
Her students have been winners of many competitions and accepted to the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), the University of Akron, the University of Oregon, Temple University, Indiana University, and Colorado State University for their graduate studies.
