Yeree Suh

Soprano Yeree Suh has dual specialties in early music and contemporary music. She has performed both early music and contemporary music in her native South Korea, where both are far from common. Suh was born in South Korea in 1976. She attended Seoul National University, and after graduation, she traveled to Berlin, Germany, for studies at the University of the Arts, from which she graduated with honors. Her principal teacher there was bass Harald Stamm. After a year in Germany, she joined the Rundfunkchor Berlin. Suh went on to the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig, where she studied with Regina Werner-Dietrich. In a master class with conductor René Jacobs, she became interested in early music, and she was cast as a nymph in Monteverdi's Orfeo at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival under Jacobs' direction. She went on to perform in that opera several more times while taking classes in early music performance from Gerd Türk at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. In 2007, Suh appeared with conductor Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra in Handel's Apollo e Dafne. Her recording debut came the following year on the album Musik der Hamburger Pfeffersäcke with the Elbipolis Barockorchester on the Raumklang label. At first, Suh's repertory consisted mostly of Baroque music, but she soon became interested in contemporary music as well. She often performed the music of composer Unsuk Chin. Suh performed that composer's Akrostichon-Wortspiel, along with György Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre, at her New York debut with the Ensemble InterContemporain under conductor Susanna Mälkki. She has performed both early music and contemporary music in her native Korea, where both are relatively uncommon. Suh has appeared with major ensembles such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Nieuw Ensemble of Amsterdam, the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. She toured with the early music group Concerto Köln in a production of Mozart's singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor, K. 486. Suh has recorded several albums for the Naxos label, and in 2021, she was heard on Alia Vox with La Capella Reial de Catalunya and conductor Jordi Savall in Haydn's oratorio Die Schöpfung. Suh returned on Naxos in 2023 in the rare oratorio L'abbandono delle ricchezze di S. Filippo Neri with Concerto de Bassus under conductor Franz Hauk.
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