Hyejun Kwon, mezzo soprano

Scholarship holder since 2023

Hyejun Kwon was born in 1995 in South Korea and has been a member of the International Opernstudio NRW since 2022. Before this she gained her masters with Prof. Wolak at the Musikhochschule Hanns Eisler Berlin and her bachelor at the Ewha Womans University in Seoul.
She won several first prizes in international competitions and gained experience as an opera singer in productions like “La Traviata”, “Lustige Witwe”, “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” and at the Wuppertal Opernhaus.
In 2023 she will appear at the Verbier Festival Atelier Lyrique Programm and will take part in master classes with Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming. She will give her debut in the opera “Rake’s Progress”.