5th Prize
TaeJoong Yang
South Korea, Lyric Baritone, born 1976
TaeJoong Yang graduated from the National University Seoul in 2001. There he studied voice with Philip Kang. In the same year in Seoul he sang the role of Germont in Verdi's "La Traviata." A winner in the "JungAng" contest in Seoul, TaeJoong Yang will now try his luck in the "Neue Stimmen" contest in Guetersloh, his second competition. Today he is studying at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.
