Won Jang

Won Jang sang as a soloist on the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra's concerts of 2008 in Germany and the Netherlands — Rheinbach, Siegen and Kerkrade — sharing those programmes with Ernesto Grisales, Wasgen Gazarian, Elena Tchavdarova-Issa and Patty Willson. Jang was born in Seoul in 1975 and studied with Insoo Kim at the Chugye University for the Arts there, then from 1999 at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Frankfurt am Main with Michael Schopper and afterwards Berthold Possemeyer, taking his opera diploma in 2008. He is a prizewinner of the International Don Giovanni opera competition in Switzerland. Engagements as a soloist took him to the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, the Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, where he sang in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 2005 and 2006 and in Don Carlos and Zar und Zimmermann in 2009; from the 2011/12 season he has belonged to the Gerhart Hauptmann Theater in Goerlitz. Sarastro, Bartolo, Basilio, Fasolt, Fafner, the Grand Inquisitor, the Commendatore, Ramfis and Sparafucile are among his roles.