The young South Korean tenor Seungwoo Simon Yang studied at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre with Carolyn James. From 2020 to 2023 he was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera. Since the 2023/24 season he has been a member of the company’s ensemble, and has appeared as Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Jaquino (Fidelio), Pong (Turandot), in his role debut as Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) and, in 2024/25, as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Fenton (Falstaff) and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte). This season he also made his debut as Alfredo (La traviata) at Theater Chemnitz.
In the 2025/26 season he will move to become a permanent ensemble member of the Landestheater Linz, where roles such as Arnold (Guillaume Tell), Italian Singer (Der Rosenkavalier) and Ernesto (Don Pasquale) will mark the next stage of his artistic development.
In 2022 he took part in the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival, returning in 2024 for Thomas’ Hamlet and again in summer 2025.
He has performed in numerous concerts in South Korea and Europe. In 2024 he made his US debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck at Heinz Hall and his South-East Asian debut under Hans Graf with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, on both occasions performing the tenor solo in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Seungwoo Simon Yang is a prize-winner of numerous competitions in South Korea and Germany. In 2014 he won first prizes at the Ewha-Kyunghyang Music Competition, the Shin Youngok Singing Competition and the Shinhan Music Awards, and in 2018 he won second prize and a special prize at the Maritime Music Awards. In 2020 he won first prizes at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre in the Mozart Prize Awards, the Elise Meyer Foundation Competition, and also at the Gustav Mahler Competition for Lied duos. He was a finalist in the international Neue Stimmen competition 2022.
