Come watch a masterclass with guest vocalist Gerard Kim and the Dewberry School of Music vocal students!

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Baritone Gerard Kim, who has won first place at the Munich ARD Competition, third place at the Tchaikovsky International Competition, first place at the Domgraf Fassbender Competition, and a prize at the Bayreuth International Wagner Competition, has been recognized in the music world for his captivating charisma, explosive sensibility, and diverse stage presence. He graduated from the Seoul National University College of Music's Department of Vocal Music and was selected as a DAAD German government scholarship student to graduate from the Munich University of Music's Top Opera Performer Course and Top Performer Course in German Lieder. In 2006, he was discovered by the world-renowned mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbender and worked as a resident singer at the Innsbruck Opera House until 2010, performing leading roles in over 20 operas ranging from Mozart to Verdi and Wagner. In 2009, he was the first Asian to be cast as Wotan, and he sang all of Wagner's Ring series, starting with "Das Rheingold" at the Theater Halle and Theater Ludwigshafen in Germany until 2013. In 2015, he performed "Der Ring des Nibelungen" at the Theater Halle in Germany. Gerard, who received the Eberhard Wächter Medal from the Vienna State Opera in 2005, has performed with the Bayerische Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland, and KBS Symphony Orchestra, and has held recitals at the Johann Strauss Festival, Carl Orff Festival, and Tongyeong International Music Festival, and held a recital of the complete works of "Winterreise" at the Theater Innsbruck. He has performed Haydn's "The Creation" and "Carmina Burana" with various choirs at home and abroad, including the National Chorus and the Wagner Nights hosted by the German Wagner Society. He also appeared as Sim Bong-sa in Yun Isang's "Simcheong" at the Seoul Opera Festival. Gerard studied German songs with Thomas Hampson and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and held a recital with pianist Helmut Deutsch in 2014. Currently a professor at Daegu Catholic University, he performed "Madame Butterfly" and "Fidelio" in Daegu, Berlin, and Bonn in 2016, and performed "Il Trovatore" at the Erfurt Festival in Germany in 2017.