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The Korean baritone, Junhan Choi, obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Kyungwon University in Seongnam, South Korea (2010); his Music degree in Vocal Performance (2014) and a his Graduate Diploma in Opera Studies (2016) with a Presidential Scholarship from New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a prize-winner in many international competitions, such as the 54th Viñas International Voice Competition (2017, Spain/Three Extraordinary Prizes - Mercedes Viñas, Victoria de los Ángeles, Franz Schubert), the Berliner International Music Competition Germany (2018, Golden Medal), Talents of the World International Voice Competition (2017, 1st Place), MassOpera’s Vocal Competition (2017, 1st Place), Rochester International Vocal Competition (2017) and St. Botolph Emerging Artist Grant for excellence in music (2016).
Praised for his “splendid baritone voice, rich and rounded”, Junhan Choi is an active opera, oratorio and concert singer. In the 2023-2024 season, engagements included his role Registrar & Commissioner in Madama Butterfly (2023), role Dandini(cover) in La Cenerentola (2023) and Fourth Stone in Eurydice (2024) with Boston Lyric Opera as a second year of Jane and Steven Akin Emerging Artist.
Past operatic credits include title roles in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni (2018, 2019), Gianni Schicchi, the Count in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (2020), Dandini in La Cenerentola (2016), Marcello in La Boheme (2018), Escamillo in Georges Bizet's in Carmen (2019), Germont in La traviata, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore (2023), Papageno in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo in W.A. Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Oreste in Iphigénie en Tauride, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus (2018), Friedrich in Das Liebesverbot (2021), Tideo in Medea in Corinto (2018), Roggiero in Tancredi (2018), Melisso in George Frideric Handel's Alcina (2017), Baron de Pictordu in Cendrillon (2018), Geôlier in Dialogues des Carmélites, Death in Savitri (2023), Valdeburgo in La Straniera (2019), Revírník in Příhody lišky Bystroušky, Claudio in Agrippina, Monsu Traversen in La Gazzetta, Der Tod in Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Liberto/Littore/Soldato in L'incoronazione di Poppea, Policeman in The Consul, Thierry/Javelinot/Officer in Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites (2015), Young man in Lucy, The Professor in The Bedbug (2021) and Adonis in Venus and Adonis (2022).
Junhan Choi's concert credits include G.F. Handel's Messiah, Israel in Egypt; J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion BWV 245, Mass in B minor BWV 232, Magnificat in D major BWV 243, Cantatas BWV 7, BWV 56, BWV 74, BWV 755, BWV 80, BWV 140; Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Verdi’s Requiem, Johannes Brahms's Requiem, Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, W.A. Mozart's Coronation Mass, Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Stainer’s The Crucifixion, Wood’s St. Mark Passion and Ramirez’s Navidad Nuestra. He currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts |
