Yeree Suh

Yeree Suh delights audiences and critics with her radiant yet nuanced soprano voice, and has become internationally renowned as an interpreter of 17th and 18th century repertoire as well as of contemporary music.

Since her debut as Ninfa in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo under René Jacobs at the Innsbruck Festival 2003 and her appearances at the Berlin Staatsoper and Theater an der Wien, the Korean singer has regularly worked with early music conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe, Ton Koopman, Andrea Marcon, Jean-Christophe Spinosi and Masaaki Suzuki and with ensembles such as Anima Eterna, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Venice Baroque Orchestra and Finnish Baroque Orchestra. She took the part of Mademoiselle Silberklang in Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor on tour with the Concerto Köln under Harald Schmidt, and debuted at the Beijing Festival in 2010 as Semele.

With her extraordinary voice control and clear timbre, the soprano is also a prominent interpreter of 20^th and 21^st century music. Under the direction of Kent Nagano with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Yeree Suh gave the European premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s with lilies white. She has also performed George Benjamin’s A Mind of Winter with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi, Unsuk Chin’s Akrostichon-Wortspiel with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Wolfgang Rihm’s Mnemosyne with the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic and Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre with the Ensemble Intercontemporain under Susanna Mälkki. Further she performed in the premiere of Rihm’s Drei Frauen at the Theater Basel (direction: Georges Delnon). Highlights of her repertoire also include works by Pierre Boulez, including Le soleil des eaux, which she performed with Pablo Heras-Casado and Peter Eötvös; Pli selon pli, with Jonathan Nott and Thierry Fischer; and Le Visage Nuptial, with Cornelius Meister. As part of the 40^th anniversary celebrations of the Ensemble Intercontemporain under Matthias Pintscher, she recently performed songs by Anton Webern with phenomenal success.

The multi-faceted singer has appeared in concert and opera at festivals and venues including the Lucerne Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Tongyeong International Music Festival, Vienna Konzerthaus, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Philharmonie Paris, Barbican Centre in London, Theater Basel and the Lincoln Center in New York. At the Musikfest Berlin she performed Schoenberg’s Die Jakobsleiter under Ingo Metzmacher; she has also given multiple performances of Orff’s Carmina Burana with Yannick Nézet-Séguin as well as with Jos van Immerseel, who has a close artistic relationship to the singer as conductor as well as accompanist – their Schubertiade performance as well as Carmina Burana has been released on CD.

Her discography started in 2008 with her celebrated debut CD Musik der Hamburger Pfeffersäcke with the Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg. This was followed by recordings of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas under Leonardo Garcia Alarkon (where she took the role of Belinda), works by Judith Bingham, Handel’s Dixit Dominus under Pierre Cao, Resphighi’s Lauda per la Natività del Signore with the Rundfunkchor Berlin, Bach’s Easter Oratorio and Cantata for Solo Soprano BWV 52 as well as selected cantatas performed under Sigiswald Kuijken.

Yeree Suh opens the season in September 2017 with Toshio Hosokawa’s Klage under Shiyeon Sung at the Musikfest Berlin. She will then continue her collaboration with Jos van Immerseel and Anima Eterna, performing Strauss’ Four Last Songs and songs by Gershwin, as well as at the Alte Oper Frankfurt with Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Symphony No. 9. Finally, she will appear across the Atlantic as a guest soloist in Calgary, Canada at the end of the season.

Yeree Suh studied at the Seoul National University, Universtät der Künste Berlin with Harald Stamm, in Leipzig with Regina Werner-Dietrich and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Gerd Türk. She currently lives in Berlin.