Yeree Suh
soprano
Yeree Suh delights audiences and critics with her radiant yet finely nuanced soprano, making her an internationally sought-after interpreter of 17th and 18th century repertoire as well as contemporary music. Since her debut as Ninfa in Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo under René Jacobs at the Innsbruck Festival in 2003, followed by engagements at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin and the Theater an der Wien, the Korean singer has worked regularly with specialists in historical performance practice such as Philippe Herreweghe, Sigiswald Kuijken, Jos van Immerseel, Christoph Hogwood, Ton Koopman, Andrea Marcon, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Midori Seiler, Rubén Dubrovsky, Enrico Onofri and Masaaki Suzuki, as well as with ensembles such as Anima Eterna Brugge, Bach Collegium Japan, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Venice Baroque Orchestra and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra. She toured with Concerto Köln and Harald Schmidt as Mademoiselle Silberklang in Mozart's Schauspieldirektor, and as Semele she made her debut at the Beijing Festival in 2010, a role with which she could last be seen at the Halle Handel Festival in 2022.
In the 2023/24 she will return to the Brucknerhaus Linz and to the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris. She will also give her debut in the main hall of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, sing Handel's Samson with the Gaechinger Cantorey under Hans-Christian Rademann as well as Mozart's Requiem at the Musikverein Wien with Martin Haselböck. A highlight will be Penderecki's The Black Mask with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop and Brahms' German Requiem with Matthias Goerne in Chicago. Further concerts will be at the Tongyeong International Musik Festival with the Klangforum Wien with Peter Eötvös as well as Nono's Como une ola de fuerza y luz with the Orchestra de Radio France in Paris.
Yeree Suh studied at Seoul National University, Berlin University of the Arts with Harald Stamm with Honor, in Leipzig with Regina Werner-Dietrich and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Gerd Türk. She has been a professor of voice at the Akademie für Tonkunst - University of Cooperative Education in Darmstadt since 2019. She has been appointed professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart as of the summer semester 2023.