Jihoon Son

Tenor

Mariinsky Theatre Guest Soloist

• Prize-winner at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow – St Petersburg, 2023; 1^st prize and Gold Medal)
• Prize-winner at the 17^th Montserrat Caballé International Singing Competition (Madrid, 2022; 1^st prize and special prize)
• Prize-winner at the 72^nd Giovan Battista Viotti International Music Competition (Vercelli, Italy, 2022; 1^st prize and Audience Award)
• Prize-winner at the 1^st International Competition for Young Tenors The Voice of Kamen (Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2022; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 5^th Éva Marton International Singing Competition (Budapest, 2021; 3^rd prize and special prize)

Jihoon Son was born in 1990 in Seoul. In 2016 he graduated from the Korean National University of Arts (Seoul; class of Simon Yang), and in 2022 – from the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everging (Munich) and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (class of Andreas Schmidt).

He performs roles such as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Lysander (Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Rodolfo (La bohème), Arnold Melchtal and Ruodi (Guillaume Tell), Beppe (Donizetti’s Rita), Conte Alberto (L’occasione fa il ladro), Prunier (La rondine) and Fay Pu (Christian Jost’s Rote Laterne), Schubert’s vocal cycle Winterreise and the tenor solo in Orff’s Carmina Burana. Has appeared at the Prinzregententheater (Munich), the Brandenburger Theater, the Kodály Centre (Pécs, Hungary), the Stadttheater Klagenfurt (Austria), the Nouvel Opéra Fribourg – Neue Oper Freiburg (Switzerland) and the Seoul Arts Center among other venues.

In 2023 he made his Mariinsky Theatre debut, taking part in the International Tchaikovsky Competition and an autumn concert of its prize-winners; in September of the same year the singer performed the tenor role in Verdi’s Requiem at the theatre.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Lord Arturo Talbo (I puritani)
Alfredo Germont (La traviata)
Tenor role in Verdi’s Requiem
Information for July 2024