Jiwon Choi

Jiwon Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea, and studied singing with Anneliese Fried and Thomas Quasthoff at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, before completing a concert exam with Mechthild Georg and Johannes Martin Kränzle at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, both with distinction. She received third prize and a special award at the International Otto Edelmann Singing Competition in Vienna.

She made her stage debut in 2015 as Carmen in Bizet’s opera at the theatres in Solingen and Remscheid. Further engagements have taken her to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she appeared as Zia in Puccini’s »Madama Butterfly« and as one of the Madrigali in Puccini‘s »Manon Lescaut« under Sir Simon Rattle, a role she also sang at the Edinburgh Festival. At Theater Bremen she performed as one of the voices in Rihm’s »Jakob Lenz«.

She is also a regular presence on the concert platform in oratorio and song programmes, with appearances at the Berlin Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, Berlin Cathedral, the Französischer Dom, the Mendelssohn-Remise in Berlin, the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam, Theater Gelsenkirchen and many churches in and around Berlin.

From 2014 she sang in the first alto section of the chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, before joining the Rundfunkchor Berlin in 2021. Since 2019 she has also been a member of the Bayreuth Festival Chorus.