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The Korean baritone, Seungwook Seong (Korean: 성승욱), began his musical training at Yonsei University in Seoul where he graduated with a first-class degree, he has won a prestigious entrance scholarship to Royal Academy of Music in 2001. He is the recipient of many awards and prizes including the Richard Lewis-Jean Shanks Award, Ludmila Andrew Russian Song Competition, Blyth-Buesst Operatic Singing Prize, Opera Rara Bel Canto Prize and the Queen's Commendation for Excellence from RAM, British and American Tobacco scholarship for NOS and Stuart Burrows Singing Competition 1st prize.
Seungwook Seong's operatic experiences include Don Alfonso in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte, Leporello in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Haraschta in The Cunning Little Vixen (conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras), Sprecher in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (conducted by with Sir Colin Davis), Pandolfe in Cendrillon for RAM, Don Giovanni in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni for Amersham Opera Festival, Eugene Onegin in Eugene Onegin for I Maestri in St. John's Smith Square, understudied Escamillo in Georges Bizet's Carmen, understudied Macbeth in Macbeth for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Il Conte di Luna in Il Trovatore, Amonasro in Aida for Southern Opera New Zealand, Rigoletto in Rigoletto for Korean National Opera, Traveller in Benjamin Britten's Curlew River for Seoul City Opera. |
