Korean bass Ki-Hyun Park was born in Seoul and studied in his home city, Dresden and Rome. He is a winner of the International Antonín Dvořák Singing Competition, and the Mozart Prize and the Special Prize of the National Theatre in Prague, among others.

He has been a member of Oper Halle since 2002, where he has interpreted roles in Faust, Orlando, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Le nozze di Figaro, Rigoletto, Manru and Tristan und Isolde, most recently appearing as Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier and Doctor Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Concert tours have taken him to Dublin and Seoul as well as the Gewandhaus Leipzig and the Konzerthaus Berlin.