Sunhae Im is on tour this month with René Jacobs and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra for some performances of a concertante version of Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" in Shanghai, Seoul and at the Esterhazy Castle in Eisenstadt.
Sunhae Im is performing as soloist in Mahler's Eight Symphony between December 17-20 with the Tonkünstler Orchestra in Vienna and St. Pölten, under the baton of conductor Andres Orozco-Estrada.
On the evening of May 10, 2015 Sunhae Im sang excerpts from Agostino Steffani's opera " Le rivali concordi " ('The reconciled lovers') together with the soloists Miriam Feuersinger (soprano), David Hansen (alto) and Knut Schoch (tenor) and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Torsten Johann at Mozart Hall in Stuttgart. Already Cecilia Bartoli has recorded parts of the opera three years ago on the spectacular concept album "Mission". An Italian opera with French overtones from the pen of a composer who influenced even Handel and Bach.
The new CD with Sunhae Im's first solo recital will be released on 13th of March 2015 by harmonia mundi. The album, recorded with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, includes four cantatas dealing with the myth of Orpheus. Please click HERE for further information.
Sunhae Im is starting into the new season with a recital in her home Seoul/Corea - then she will continue with René Jacobs and the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra with two Bach cantatas ("Trauerode" und "Herkules auf dem Scheideweg") in Hamburg, Lausanne, Helsinki, Alicante und Vic (Spain).
In December Sunhae Im will sing in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, again under the baton of René Jacobs and the B'Rock Orchestra on a tour through Amsterdam, Milan, Perugia, Brussels and Antwerp.
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Sunhae Im was recording the St Matthew Passion by Bach, under the baton of René Jacobs, together with Bernarda Fink, Werner Güra and others and the Akademie of Alte Musik Berlin. The album was released in October 2013 by Harmonia Mundi.
The German Newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung" wrote about Sunhae Im's appearance at the french "Festival de Beaune" in Haendel's Orlando: "The soprano Sunhae Im was shining as Dorinda, enchanting and in top form and her "Amor è qual vento" degraded every hurricane to a gentle breeze."
You can see Sunhae Im in this role many times in the next months, all upcoming concerts in autumn 2013 you can find here under "Events"!
The recent performance in Handel's Agrippina together with Rene Jacobs and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin was a huge success for Sunhae Im, here you can read some reviews of the concert in Paris:
Sunhae Im is on tour between June 1-10 with concerts in Seoul, Fukuoka, Tokyo and other cities.
She will be performing the Mozart Requiem with the Orchestre de Champs Elysées, the Collegium Vocale Gent and Philippe Herreweghe. More information here under Events.
Sunhae Im is again on tour through the concert halls in Europe - the oratorio "Il trionfo" by Haendel will be performed in Vienna, Madrid, Paris and Cologne. More information here.