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JiHee Jeong
Korean soprano Jihee Jeong is a second-year Master’s degree candidate under the tutelage of Ruth Golden at Manhattan School of Music. Earlier, she studied with Okjin Baek, and Neil Rosenshein. Her operatic experience includes
La Doriclea,
The Beggar’s Opera (Mrs.Vixen) with MSM Senior Opera Theater. Scene work includes
Le nozze di Figaro (Susanna),
L’incoronazione di Poppea (Valletto),
Turn of Screw (Flora),
Pirates of Penzance (Edith) with Manhattan School of Music. As a chorister she has performed Mahler’s Second Symphony conducting by Kenneth Kiesler at Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York. She performed as a soloist in Haydn’s
Die Schöpfung and Dubois’s
The Seven Last Words of Christ. She has won prizes in the Honam Art competition, the National Music Competition and Korean News Competition. Her repetoir includes works by Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi, Strauss, Faure and Britten.
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