Soprano Ye-won Han (a graduate student at Seoul National University) took the first place in the 2021 Jeongyulseong Music Festival ‘Gwangju Vocal Music Competition’ (hereinafter referred to as the Gwangju Vocal Music Competition), which selects the next generation of young singers to lead the Korean music industry.
| ▲ Soprano Ye-won Han at Seoul National University (provided by the Gwangju Cultural Foundation) | ||
The Gwangju Cultural Foundation (CEO Hwang Pung-nyeon) held the final finals of the Gwangju Vocal Music Competition at the Bitgoeul Citizens’ Culture Center on the 21st (Sat) and announced a total of eight winners, including 1st place, Han Ye-won.
According to the Gwangju Cultural Foundation on the 22nd, according to the Gwangju Cultural Foundation on the 22nd, the final contest was held without audiences due to the Corona 19 situation. competed in skills.
Han Ye-won, who took the 1st place on the day, performed three sweet and tender songs: “I Sing the Plum Blossom”, the Korean song “Hak (Doo-Nam Cho)”, and “A vos jeux, mes amis” from Opera “Hamlet” (A. Thomas). He sang with his voice and received the honor of winning the first place, and he will have the opportunity to perform at the ‘Jeongyulseong Music Festival’ with the prize money of 15 million maekwondo.
Afterwards, 2nd place Jihoon Park (graduate from Korea National University of Arts), 3rd Inho Jung (graduate from Seoul National University), Jeong Yulsung Song Award Park Jihoon (graduate from Korea National University of Arts), Woori Song Award Han Yewon (Seoul National University graduate school), Banju Award Bae Jiyoung (Stuttgart National University, Germany) Graduate of the College of Music) enjoyed the award. Kim Yoo-jung (a graduate student at Chonnam National University) was awarded the Hometown Award, and the Hometown Award was awarded to Seo Hye-won (Sookmyung Women’s University graduate).
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| ▲ Commemorative photo shoot | ||
The ‘2021 Gwangju Vocal Music Concours’ started registration on July 12, and a total of 121 people participated in two preliminary rounds, and 13 people made it to the finals. A total of eight people, including Seok-Bae Ha (Chairman of the Daegu Guseong Music Competition), Jong-Ho Kim (Professor at Hansei University), and Song-Mi Yang (Professor at Kyungsung University) conducted a fair review. Hosted by Gwangju Metropolitan City, hosted by Gwangju Cultural Foundation, and sponsored by Gwangju Bank and KCTV Gwangju Broadcasting.
The ‘2021 Gwangju Vocal Music Concours’ was the first in Korea to openly recruit for the first time in a domestic competition for transparent and fair judging, and a total of 35 students including professors from music colleges or professional performers with more than 10 years of experience applied. , ▲ 7 people in the 1st preliminary round (male) ▲ 7 people in the 1st preliminary (girls) ▲ 7 people in the 2nd preliminary round participated as judges three times.
Pung-nyeon Hwang, CEO of the Gwangju Cultural Foundation, said, “This competition is a competition in which 121 domestic and foreign singers participated, and it was prepared to provide a venue where they can demonstrate their outstanding musical capabilities and to discover outstanding talents.” Many provinces were selected and the efforts were able to bear fruit. We will continue to provide generous support so that the Gwangju Vocal Music Competition can be established as a prestigious competition that serves as a gateway for young singers.”
On the other hand, the Gwangju Vocal Music Competition, which started in 1996, is the first Korean tenor to debut as a leading singer at the La Scala Opera Theater in Italy. Lee Jung-won (tenor, 1996), who was praised as ‘Kalaf’, Seo Seon-yeong (soprano, 2006), who worked as a lead singer at the Basel Theater in Switzerland and received rave reviews from local and European media in Switzerland, 2nd prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition, one of the world’s top three classical competitions Kim Ki-hoon (baritone, 2015), who emerged as a new classic Hallyu star with the
In addition to Park Ye-Rang (soprano, 2017), who won the Grand Prize at the 17th National Opera Troupe Vocal Competition, Go Byeong-Jun (Baritone, 2018), and Jeong Hyeon-Woo (Tenor, 2019) who won the Grand Prize and Gold Prize at the 19th National Opera Company Voice Competition, as well as in 2019 Soprano Hae-won Lee, who won the 1st prize at the Gwangju Vocal Music Competition, recorded explosive views on YouTube for each performance video after the release of her first album “Swaying Flower” in 2020. The number of applications is also increasing every year.
In particular, among the members of the crossover male quartet ‘Rapoem’, who won the JTBC Phantom Singer 3 final in July 2020, Park Ki-hoon (tenor) was the 2017 winner, and Jung Min-seong (baritone) was the runner-up in 2019.
Not only members of the winning team, La Poem, but also bassist Gil Byeong-min (1st place in 2015) and tenor Min-seok Kim (3rd place in 2018), who appeared in Phantom Singer 3, participated in the Gwangju Competition and won awards. Stellar’s tenor Min-kyu Jo won the Jeong Yul-seong Song Award in 2014.
