Yoonki Baek
Tenor

Tenor Yoonki Baek completed his training in lied and opera singing at Hanyang University in his hometown of Seoul (South Korea), attended master classes with Joan Donorman in Tokyo and with Francesco Ellero d'Artegna in Bologna, and completed postgraduate studies with Hanna Schwarz at the Hamburg Musikhochschule. 

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From 2006 to 2009 he was a permanent ensemble member at the Stadttheater Osnabrück (including Belmonte in Mozart's "Entführung aus dem Serail", Sandor Barinkay in Strauss' "Zigeunerbaron", Walther von der Vogelweide in "Tannhäuser" and the title role in "Don Carlos"). 

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In 2009 he became a member of the ensemble at the Theater Kiel. Here he took on numerous important roles in his field, including the title role in Gounod's "Faust", Cavaradossi in "Tosca", Alfredo Germont in "La Traviata", Don Ottavio in "Don Giovanni", Steva Buryja in "Jenůfa", Pinkerton in "Madama Butterfly", Lenski in "Eugene Onegin", Ismaele in "Nabucco", Froh in "Rheingold" and Don José in "Carmen". Guest engagements have taken him to numerous German opera houses. His repertoire also includes Verdi's "Requiem", Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle" and Beethoven's "Missa di Solemnis". Baek won the Mozart Prize for Singing in Hamburg in 2005 and the Elise Meyer Competition in 2006. From 2020 to 2023, Yoonki Baek was a member of the ensemble at Theater Lübeck.

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