Soprano You-Seong Kim has performed throughout the United States, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, and her native Korea. She has appeared with the Cincinnati Opera, Bloomington Early Music Festival, Korean National Opera Studio, University of Cincinnati Opera, and Indiana University Opera Theatre.

Among the operatic roles she has performed are Alcina, Ilia, Despina, Fiordiligi, Bastienne, Sinaïde, and Suor Genovieffa. Her concert performances include the soprano solo in Bach B-minor Mass, Mozart Requiem, Haydn Harmoniemesse and Creation Mass, Brahms German Requiem, Mozart C-minor Mass, Poulenc Gloria, Handel Psalm 112, Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 , and Vivaldi Magnificat.

Ms. Kim has been a winner at the prestigious German art song competition, Internationaler Wettbewerb für Liedkunst in Stuttgart (2004) and at the early music competition, Concours Chimay Chant Baroque (2002). She was also a finalist at several singing competitions including the International Singing Competition in Cologne, and the Palm Beach Atlantic National Vocal Competition. She was a three-time district winner and a tri-state regional winner at the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions.

Ms. Kim participated in the program for singers at the 2003 Steans Institute for Young Artists of the Ravinia Festival, where she sang in the master class of Maestro Christoph Eschenbach. She recorded several Hans Eisler Lieder for the Hugo Wolf Akademie in Stuttgart during 2004 and in the summer of 2005 she will be performing at a vocal chamber music festival in the Czech Republic.

Ms. Kim earned her bachelor and master of music degrees in vocal performance at the Seoul National University. She is pursuing her doctoral degree in voice at the University of Cincinnati where she received the top prize at the Corbett Opera Scholarship Award Competition and has also served as a voice teaching assistant. Kim’s teachers include Barbara Honn, Patricia Havranek, and Moon-sook Park.