Kangmin Justin Kim

Korean-American Kangmin Justin Kim is one of the most sought-after countertenors of his generation, having earned accolades in roles of the Baroque repertoire, contemporary music and in Mozart's trouser parts, collaborating with conductors such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Mark Minkowski, Andrea Marcon and Michael Hofstetter.

Engagements of the 2019/2020 season include his role debuts as Ruggiero in a new production of Alcina in Nancy and Dijon, as Annio in a new staging of La clemenza di Tito at the Theater an der Wien and in the title role of the world premiere of M. Butterfly at the Santa Fe Festival. He will also perform Nerone in L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Haymarket Opera in Chicago and will return to Cologne as Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus.

In the 2018/19 season, he made his debuts at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner and at the Staatsoper Berlin as Nerone in L'incoronazione di Poppea. He also sang Idamante in a new staging of Idomeneo at the Maifestspiele Wiesbaden as well as Idelberto in a new production of Lotario at Konzert Theater Bern.

Other successes include Nerone in L'incoronazione di Poppea and Speranza in L'Orfeo at the Salzburg Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Lucerne Festival, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Lincoln Center New York the Harris Theatre Chicago as well as the Berlin and Paris Philharmonie conducted by Gardiner, Orlofsky in a new production of Die Fledermaus and as Cesare in Vivaldi's Catone in Utica at the Oper Köln, Giulio Cesare for his Glyndebourne debut conducted by William Christie, Handel's Jephtha at the Maifestspiele Wiesbaden, Orfeo in Handel's Parnasso in festa at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam conducted by Andrea Marcon, his debut at the Teatro San Carlo of Naples in Britten's Canticles alongside Ian Bostridge, Carmina Burana with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Barzane in Vivaldi's Arsilda with Collegium 1704 in Bratislava, Caen, Lille, Luxembourg and Versailles, Speranza in L'Orfeo at the Opéra de Dijon, Romeo in Zingarelli's Giulietta e Romeo at the Rokokotheater of Schwetzingen, Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus for his Parisian debut at the Opéra Comique conducted by Marc Minkowski, Oreste in La Belle Hélène at the Théâtre du Châtelet of Paris, Sesto in La clemenza di Tito at the Opéra de Montpellier, Idamante in Idomeneo at the Stadttheater Gießen under the baton of Michael Hofstetter, Enea in the Handel/Vinci pasticcio Didone abbandonata at the Handel Festival Halle, his first Sesto in Giulio Cesare at the Handel Week Festival Oak Park, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and Kalitzke's newly written opera, Pym for Theater Heidelberg. He could also be heard in Gala Concerts at the Styriarte Graz and at the Rokokotheater Schloss Schwetzingen.

Kangmin Justin Kim was born in South Korea and grew up in Chicago. He studied voice, opera, and musical theater at the Northwestern University in Evanston and the Royal Academy of Music, London.

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