Sunghoon Han

Sunghoon Han is a bass-baritone from Seoul, South Korea, currently in his first year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. During the 2024–25 season, he will perform in the Program’s Patron Concert of opera scenes, Met Orchestra Workshop with Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the annual spring recital series held at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Recent operatic engagements include Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro and Marco in Gianni Schicchi at Aspen Opera Theater, Gremin in Eugene Onegin and Nardo in Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera at Indiana University, and several roles at Yonsei University including Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Leporello in Don Giovanni. On the concert stage, he has appeared as the bass soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with the Carmel Symphony  and in Haydn’s Missa in Tempore Belli with Yonsei University. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2024 as part of a Yonsei University alumni concert featuring standard works by Mozart, Verdi, and Brahms as well as Korean composers including Du-nam Cho, among others. In 2024, he was named winner of the Indiana District of the Met’s Laffont Competition and went on to place third in the Central Region. Later that year, he received high marks on several prestigious vocal competitions including the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, the MIOpera Vocal Competition, and the National Society of the Arts and Letters Competition. He is an alumnus of the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS Program, where he was a Renée Fleming Artist Fellow, and Korea National Opera Studio. He holds a degree in vocal performance from Yonsei University and pursued studies as part of the Artist Diploma program at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.