Tenor Moon Yung Oh was born in Seoul in 1980. He gained his first musical experience between 1990 and 1996 as part of the Korean Academy Children’s Choir. He studied singing at the Seoul Theological University from 2000 to 2006 and continued his vocal training at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Munich with Frieder Lang from 2007 to 2010.
Moon Yung Oh has performed as a tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah and Mendelssohn’s Paul, Elias and the Second Symphony in concert, as well as appearing as a soloist in various works by Bach, including the Christmas Oratorio and the St Matthew Passion. On the operatic stage, he has appeared as Paolino (Il matrimonio segreto), as well as in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and as Ferrando (Così fan tutte).
Moon Yung Oh was a finalist at the International Song Competition of the Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart in 2011. The same year, he became a member of the Bavarian Radio Choir.
