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Her voice has a rich palette of expression between velvety soft mezzo and shimmering metallic highs, paired with a fine sense of soft dynamics.
Silvia Adler, Volksblatt, 13.10.2018
Yeree Suh delights audiences and critics alike 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 2003 Innsbruck Festival and appearances at the Berlin Staatsoper and Theater an der Wien, the Korean singer has worked with early music conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe, Ton Koopman, Andrea Marcon, Jean-Christophe Spinosi and Masaaki Suzuki, and ensembles such as Anima Eterna, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Venice Baroque Orchestra and the 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 2010 Beijing Festival as Semele.
With her extraordinary voice control and clear timbre, the soprano is also a prominent interpreter of 20th and 21st 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 Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam, 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. She also performed in the premiere of Rihm’s Drei Frauen at the Theater Basel (direction: Georges Delnon). Highlights of her repertoire 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 40th anniversary celebrations of the Ensemble Intercontemporain under Matthias Pintscher in 2016, the Berlin-based singer performed songs by Anton Webern with phenomenal success. In 2015 she sang Carmina Burana under Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Dortmund. In September 2017 she returned to the Musikfest Berlin with Toshio Hosokawa’s Klage under Shiyeon Sung, having given her debut at the festival in 2015 with Schoenberg’s Die Jakobsleiter under Ingo Metzmacher. A further high point of her 2017/18 season was Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Daniele Gatti in Seoul. Collaborating with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under Michael Sanderling, she interpreted Brahms' German Requiem in Lucerne and Tongyeong in 2019. During the same year she was also a guest at the Salzburg Festival with the SWR Symphony Orchestra and under Peter Rundel with Luigi Nono's Il canto sospeso, as well as with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and Steven Sloane at the Ruhrtriennale in a new production of Kornél Mundruczó based on Ligeti's Requiem.
Yeree Suh has a close relationship with Jos van Immerseel, who has worked with the singer as a conductor and accompanist – their Schubertiade performance as well as Carmina Burana has been released on CD. Her discography began in 2008 with her celebrated CD Musik der Hamburger Pfeffersäcke with the Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg. This was followed by recordings of works by composers included Purcell, Handel, Bach and Respighi, as well as contemporary works by Judith Bingham and Michael Jarrell.
She started the unusual 2020/21 season at the Konzerthaus Blaibach with Beethoven's 9th Symphony, where she will also perform a recital in July 2021. Before that, she will sing at the Zeitströme Darmstadt, and then Haydn’s Creation with Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations. On Good Friday she will also perform Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Dresdner Kreuzchor.
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 is professor at the Akademie für Tonkunst – University of Cooperative Education in Darmstadt.
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Season 2020/21
The soloists also provided highlights. With theatrical impetus, Yeree Suh gave full life to the soprano role of Merab (especially impressive in the aria "Author of Peace," accompanied only by the continuo).
Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Susanne Benda, 26.10.2020 - On Handel's Oratorio "Saul"
Soprano Yeree Suh, confident in all registers up to "high C" and bold in her style, mastered all classical and modern singing and articulation techniques and knew how to shine gesturally and mimically.
Westdeutsche Zeitung, Hartmut Sassenhausen, 03.03.2019, ‚Songs against Reason‘ in Waldfrieden.
The solo event of the evening manifested itself in the "Et incarnatus est" of the mass, sung by the Korean soprano Yeree Suh. Her voice has a rich palette of expressions - between velvety-soft mezzo and whirring-metallic highs, coupled with a fine flair for soft dynamics.
VOLKSBLATT, Paul Stepanek, 13 October 2018 on Mozart's "Great Mass" in C minor KV 427
Soprano Yeree Suh sang the extreme vocal part with effortless purity, expertly accompanied by the Philharmonia soloists and conductor Pascal Rophé.
FINCANCIAL TIMES, Richard Fairman, 03 March 2017 on "Teile dich Nacht" by Isang Yun
The quality of soprano Yeree Suh's voice is perfect for this piece, her singing lucid and unambiguous: it is hard to imagine it could ever be sung better than this. It is a truly remarkable tribute to Boulez’s work.
THE WEE REVIEW, Robert Dow, 13 August 2016 on "Pli selon Pli" by Pierre Boulez
The opening sequence of ‘Cour d’amours’ is among the tenderest and most affecting on record, Yeree Suh’s soprano floating high notes with seraphic ease and a welcome absence of operatic rhetoric. The choral singing throughout combines precision with exuberance. For its palate-tingling revelations and suffusing musicality, this would now be my Carmina of first reference.
CLASSICAL-MUSIC.COM, Thierry Blain, 08 June 2015, on the CD "Carmina Burana", recorded with Anima Eterna Brugge under Jos van Immerseel
The blend between her pure, leaping soprano and the timbres of plucked, bowed, and struck instruments created worlds of exquisitely sensuous enchantment.
THE INDEPENDENT, Michael Church, 23 March 2015 on "Pli selon Pli" by Pierre Boulez
J. S. BACH | BWV 4 |
BWV 19 | |
BWV 21 | |
BWV 39 | |
BWV 47 | |
BWV 51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen | |
BWV 52 | |
BWV 68 | |
BWV 74 | |
BWV 80 Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott | |
BWV 84 | |
BWV 106 | |
BWV 127 | |
BWV 132 | |
BWV 199 | |
BWV 202 Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten | |
BWV 209 | |
BWV 210 | |
BWV 211 Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht (Kaffeekantate) | |
BWV 232 h-moll Messe | |
BWV 243 Magnificat | |
BWV 244 Matthäus-Passion | |
BWV 245 Johannes-Passion | |
BWV 248 Weihnachtsoratorium | |
Markus-Passion | |
Osteroratorium | |
L.v. BEETHOVEN | Symphony No. 9 - Ode to Joy |
Fantasy for Piano, Choir and Orchestra | |
H. von BINGEN | O vis aeternitatis |
L. BOCCHERINI | Stabat mater |
J. BRAHMS | A German Requiem |
B. BRITTEN | War Requiem |
D. BUXTEHUDE | Cantate Domino |
Membra Jesu Nostri | |
A. CALDARA | Stabat Mater |
Missa dolorosa | |
F. COUPERIN | Leçons de tenèbres |
J. EYBLER | Christmas Oratory |
Die Hirten bei der Krippe zu Bethlehem | |
G. FAURÉ | Requiem |
G. GERSHWIN | The Man I Love from Lady, Be Good! |
I got Rhythm from Girl Crazy | |
My man's gone now from Porgy and Bess | |
By Strauß from The Show is On | |
Summertime from Porgy and Bess | |
C. H. GRAUN | The Death of Jesus |
G. F. HANDEL | Messiah |
Dixit Dominus | |
Samson | |
Nine German Arias | |
Joshua | |
Solomon | |
Italian Cantatas | |
Lucrezia | |
Il delirio amoroso | |
Mi palpita il cor | |
J. HAYDN | The Creation |
The Seasons | |
Ariana a Naxos | |
Harmoniemesse | |
Schöpfungsmesse | |
Salve Regina | |
Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo | |
Missa in Tempore belli "Paukenmesse" | |
Missa in Angustijs "Nelsonmesse" | |
R. KAISER | Orpheus |
F. LISZT | Christus |
G. MAHLER | Symphony No. 2 |
Symphony No. 4 | |
Symphony No. 8 | |
F. MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY | Paulus |
Elijah | |
Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise) | |
Psalm 42 Wie der Hirsch schreit | |
Psalm 55 "Hör mein Bitten" | |
Psalm 95 "Kommt, lasst uns anbeten" | |
Salve Regina | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
Vom Himmel hoch | |
C. MONTEVERDI | Vespro della Beata Vergine |
Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi | |
Motet: Laudate Dominum | |
Jubilet tota civitas | |
Exulta, filio Sion | |
W. A. MOZART | Exsultate, jubilate |
Vesperae solennes de confessore | |
Veni Sancte Spiritus in C major | |
Requiem | |
Mass in C minor Soprano I & II | |
Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento | |
Regina coeli in B-flat major | |
Sub tuum praesidium in F major | |
C. ORFF | Carmina Burana |
G. B. PERGOLESI | Stabat Mater |
Vespro della Beata Vergine | |
F. POULENC | Gloria |
Stabat Mater | |
G. ROSSINI | Petite messe solennelle |
Stabat Mater | |
Messa di Gloria | |
Serate musicali | |
C. SAINT-SAENS | Christmas Oratory |
F. SCHUBERT | Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Sheperd on the Rock), D. 965 |
Mass No. 5 in A-flat major, D. 678 | |
Mass No. 6 in E-flat major, D. 950 | |
Auf dem Strom (On the River), D. 943 | |
H. SCHÜTZ | The Seven Words of Christ on the Cross |
C. V. STANFORD | Magnificat |
Nunc Dimittis | |
G. P. TELEMANN | Harmonischer Gottesdienst |
Magnificat | |
G. VERDI | Quattro pezzi sacri |
A. VIVALDI | Gloria |
Laudate Pueri | |
Magnificat en sol mineur RV 610 | |
Cantata All'ombra di sospetto | |
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L. van BEETHOVEN | Fidelio | Marzelline ** |
A. BOITO | Mefistopfele | Margherita *c |
A. CAMPRA | Orfeo nell' inferi | Euridice, L'Ombre |
G. DONIZETTI | Don Pasquale | Norina ** |
A. DRAGHI | La Lira d'Orfeo | Euridice, Lisida, Amor |
J. ECCLES | Semele | Semele, Ino |
CH. W. GLUCK | Orfeo ed Euridice | Amor *c |
C. H. GRAUN | Montezuma | Eupaforice |
G. F. HÄNDEL | Rinaldo | Almirena |
Acis and Galatea | Galatea | |
Apollo e Dafne | Dafne | |
Giulio Caesare | Cleopatra * | |
Semele | Semele | |
J. HAYDN | Il mondo della Luna | Clarice *s |
E. HUMPERDINCK | Hänsel und Gretel | Gretel |
G. LIGETI | Le grand macabre | Venus, Gepopo * |
C. MONTEVERDI | L'incoronazione di Poppea | Fortuna, Drusilla |
L'Orfeo | Euridice, La Musica, Ninfa | |
W.A. MOZART | The Magic Flute | Pamina ** |
Cosi fan tutte | Despina ** | |
Don Giovanni | Zerlina ** | |
Le nozze di Figaro | Susanna, Barbarina ** | |
Zaide | Zaide * | |
The Abduction from the Seraglio | Konstanze, Blonde ** | |
The Impresario | Mademoiselle Silberklang | |
J. OFFENBACH | The Tales of Hoffmann | Olympia ** |
G. PUCCINI | La Bohème | Musetta ** |
Gianni Schicchi | Lauretta * | |
H. PURCELL | Dido & Aenaeas | Belinda |
J. STRAUSS | Die Fledermaus | Adele * |
R. STRAUSS | Der Rosenkavalier | Sophie * |
Ariadne auf Naxos | Zerbinetta *s | |
G. P. TELEMANN | Emma und Eringard | Emma |
G. VERDI | Falstaff | Nannetta ** |
Un ballo in maschera | Oscar * | |
Rigoletto | Gilda ** | |
R. WAGNER | Parsifal | First Flower Maiden *s |
Siegfried | Forst Bird | |
C.M. von WEBER | Der Freischütz | Ännchen ** |
* Arias performed | ||
** Arias performed, whole part studied | ||
*s studied | ||
*c performed in concert | ||
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DOMINICK ARGENTO | Six Elizabethan songs (For High Voice and Piano) |
SAMUEL BARBER | Hermit Songs, op. 29 |
GEORGE BENJAMIN | A Mind of Winter (1981) |
LUCIANO BERIO | Sequenza III (1965) |
JUDITH BINGHAM | The shadow side of Joy Finzi (For Soprano and Piano) |
The Cathedral of Trees (a cappella) | |
My Father's Arms (For Soprano and String Quartet) | |
PIERRE BOULEZ | Pli selon pli (Don, Improvisation I, II, III, Tombeau) (1957-62) |
Le Soleil des Eaux (pour soprano, chur mixte et orchestre) (1947) | |
Le Visage Nuptial (1946) | |
UNSUK CHIN | Akrostichon - Wortspiel (1991/93) |
Snags & Snarls (2004) | |
Cantatrix Sopranica (2004-2005) | |
LUIGI DALLAPICCOLA | Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado (1948) (For Soprano with Piano) |
FRANCO DONATONI | Flans (1994) |
JONATHAN HARVEY | Come, holy ghost |
HANS WERNER HENZE | Being Beauteous |
PAUL HINDEMITH | Das Marienleben, op. 27 |
ULRICH ALEXANDER KREPPEIN | 2. Hymne an die Nacht für Sopran und Ensemble (Auftragswerk des Heidelberger Frühlings; Uraufführung) |
HANSPETER KYBURZ | Double Points: Outis (Penelope) |
GYÖRGY LIGETI | The Mysteries of the Macabre (1991) |
MATTHIAS PINTSCHER | With Lilies White (2001-2002) |
A twilight's song (1997) | |
TORSTEN RASCH | Le serpent rouge (13 songs for Soprano and Orchestra; Auftragswerk der BBC, Uraufführung) |
ARIBERT REIMANN | Nacht-Räume (Soprano with 2 Pianos) |
WOLFGANG RIHM | Ariadne (Monolog Oper - Drei Frauen) |
Mnemosyne | |
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG | Herzgewächse |
Pierrot Lunaire | |
Die Jakobsleiter (Seele) | |
ERWIN SCHULHOFF | Fünf Gesänge |
IGOR STRAWINSKY | Three Japanese Songs |
Four Russian Songs | |
Les Noces | |
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI | Slopiewnie, op. 46 für Sopran und kleines Ensemble |
LUIS TONOCO | Search Songs (5 songs for Soprano and Orchestra) |
Trois Poemes de l'Orient-Delicato | |
EDGARD VARÈSE | Offrandes |
ANTON WEBERN | 3 Lieder für Sopran, Klarinette und Gitarre (op. 13) |
ISANG YUN | Teile Dich Nacht (1980) |
Der Traum des Liu Tung (1965) | |
VITO ZURAJ | Insideout for soprano, baritone and ensemble (2013) |
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Yeree Suh, Thomas E. Bauer, Anima Eterna Brugge, Jos van Immerseel
alpha classics / outhere music (2015)
Yeree Suh, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Polyphonia Ensemble Berlin, Maris Sirmais, Nicolas Fink
Carus, 2015, 8310165
Yeree Suh, Thomas E. Bauer, Collegium Vocale Gent, Anima Eterna Brugge, Cantate Domino, Jos van Immerseel
ZigZag, 2014, 6014866
Yeree Suh, Orchestre de la Fondation Gulbenkian, David Alan Miller
Naxos, 2013, 3565302
Yeree Suh, Merel Quartett, Arditti Quartett, Ensemble Contrechamps, Swiss Chamber Soloists, Namascae Lemanic Modern Ensemble, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Collegium Novum Zürich, Ensemble Contemporain de l'HEMU, Basel Sinfonietta, Pascal Rophe, Jonathan Stockhammer, William Blank, Douglas Boyd, Mark Foster
MGB, 2013, 2888897
Yeree Suh, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
Accent, 2013, 2908917
Yeree Suh, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
Accent, 2012, 3108412
Yeree Suh, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
Accent, 2011, 1145916
Yeree Suh, Chamber Domaine, Thomas Kemp
resonus, 2011, RES10102
Yeree Suh (Belinda), La Nouvelle Ménestrandie & Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón
Ambronay, 2010
Yeree Suh, Arsys Bourgogne, Harmonie Universelle, Pierre Cao
Eloquentia, 2009
Yeree Suh, Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg
Raumklang, 2008, 3531627