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Korean-Canadian Lyric soprano,
Kyoung Cho has performed numerous operas, oratorios, and
concerts with companies such as Komische Kammer Oper
Munich in Germany, Slovak State Opera in Slovak
Republic, Washington Concert Opera, Utah Festival Opera,
New Jersey Verismo Opera, Yale Opera, The Hartt Opera
Theater, Connecticut Virtuosi Orchestra, New Britain
Chorale/Orchestra, Waterbury Symphony, Boston University
Chamber Orchestra, Lawrence University Chorus/Orchestra,
Cedar Falls/Waterloo Symphony, and Buffalo Philharmonic
Chorus & Orchestra. Ms. Cho’s operatic roles include
Violetta in La Traviata, Mimi in La Bohème,
Liù in Turandot, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel,
Pamina in Magic Flute, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan
tutte, Antonia in The Tales of Hoffmann, and
Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly. Her oratorio
repertoires include Brahms’ Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem,
Fauré’s Requiem, Mozart’s C minor Mass, Bach’s
Magnificat, Messiah, and The Creation. Some of the
performances mentioned above led her to the stages of
Carnegie Hall in New York City, Kennedy Centre in
Washington D. C. and other prestigious stages in Canada,
Europe, The Mid-East, and her native Korea.
The Buffalo News hailed
Kyoung Cho’s performance of Mozart’s C minor Mass with
the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra as
“sublimely beautiful, transcendent, serene, dazzling,
and heavenly”. Her recent engagements included Gala
Concerts at Carnegie Hall, Recital in Princeton, NJ,
Soprano Soloist in Brahms Requiem with the Western New
York Chamber Orchestra, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at
Southern Illinois Music Festival, Soprano Solo with The
Erie Chamber Orchestra & Bemus Point Pops Orchestra, and
Recital at Westminster Church in Buffalo, NY. Her
2007-2008 season engagements are John Rutter’s Requiem
with the Gulf Coast Youth Chorus & Orchestra, Messiah
with Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, Opera Gala
Concert with Orchard Park Symphony in New York, and
Missa Solemnis & Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass at
The Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria.
In the summer of 2002, Ms. Cho was
invited by The Israel International Vocal Institute
where she sang in several concerts, master classes, and
Gala Concerts under the baton of Maestro Paul Nadler and
Joan Dornemann of The Metropolitan Opera Company.
Ms. Cho began her vocal training at
Yon-Sei University in Seoul, Korea as a scholarship
student. Upon arriving in the U.S., she studied at The
Manhattan School of Music where she received her
Master’s degree in Voice. She continued her opera study
at Yale University School of Music and is currently a
Doctorate candidate at The University of Memphis where
she was a Hohenberg-Scheidt Opera Fellow. She has been a
voice faculty at State University of New York in
Fredonia and a voice/opera faculty at Luther College in
Iowa, and maintained a successful voice studio in New
Haven, Hartford, Memphis, Boston, and New York City.
She is currently as assistant
professor of voice at University of South Florida in
Tampa, Florida.
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