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Daesan No Baritone Daesan No is from Seoul, Korea. He earned a Bachelor of Music from Han-Yang University in Seoul. At the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, he earned his Graduate Performance Diploma and Master of Music degree. He graduated from the Academy of Vocal Arts with Artist Diploma Opera in Philadelphia and Summer Music Festival of Music Academy of the West and Tanglewood.

His opera credits include the title role in Falstaff, which he sang at Tanglewood under the baton of Seiji Ozawa, the title role in Rigoletto with Lyric Opera of San Antonio, and his return to San Antonio as Leporello (Don Giovanni). Mr. No sang Leporello and Marcello with Opera Delaware and the Performing Arts Center in Seoul, Korea; the roles of Bonze and Yamadori (Madama Butterfly) with Opera Columbus; Scarpia (Tosca) and Escamillo (Carmen) with New York City Opera, Escamillo with Opera Grand Rapids and Marcello with The National Opera of Korea. He has appeared as soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s Creation, Haydn’s Mass in Time of War, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Honolulu Symphony and St. Luke’s Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Handel’s Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall in New York and Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto and Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Daejun Symphony Orchestra....

Mr. No has appeared in concerts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at Barbican Hall in London, the Montréal Symphony Orchestra, the Québec Symphony Orchestra, the Korean Broadcasting Station Orchestra, the Seoul Baroque Ensemble, the Seoul Academy Symphony Orchestra and Mexico Symphony Orchestra at Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico.

His awards include the prestigious Lieder Prize in the 1999 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition;first prizes in the Marilyn Horne Voice Competition, Mario Lanza International Competition, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Voice Competition, LiederKranz Foundation International Voice Competition, the James Parkinson Italian Opera Competition, and winner of Jeunesses Musicales International Competition in Canada 2002. Also, he won the Placido Domingo Fellowship Award at the Academy of Vocal Arts.

Under the auspices of The Marilyn Horne Foundation, he was presented in recital at New York City’s Kosciuszko Foundation; and in January 2001 appeared on the Foundation’s 8th Annual Recital. In March 2001 he was presented in recital in Ames, Iowa, solo recital at Daytona Beach in April 2003 and in October 2001 he was co-presented in recital by the Foundation of the Vocal Arts Society in Washington, D.C. and he was also sing a recital with the Artist Series of Sarasota and Abbey Series of Seattle.

Recent and upcoming engagements includes: Scarpia and Escamillo with New York City Opera; Escamillo with Opera Grand Rapids in Michigan; Marcello with The National Opera of Korea; the title role of Rigoletto with Westfield Symphony Orchestra; solo recital in Atlanta,Georgia; Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor) with The Korea National Opera Company, Germont (La Traviata) with Dayton Opera.


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DAESAN NO
Baritone

OPERA ROLES
Malatesta Don Pasquale AVA Opera
Edgardo Lucia di Lammermoor Korean National Opera House
Garibaldo Rodelinda Music Academy of the West
Leporello Don Giovanni Opera Delaware
Papageno Die Zauberflöte Korean National Opera House
Marcello La Boheme AVA Opera
Schaunard La Boheme International Washington Opera
Scarpia Tosca AVA Opera
Marcello La Boheme Seoul Arts Center
Bonze, Yamadori Madama Butterfly Opera Columbus
Scarpia Tosca New York City Opera
Marcello La Boheme Korean National Opera House
Germont La Traviata Dayton Opera
Falstaff Falstaff Tanglewood Opera
Rigoletto Rigoletto Annapolis Opera
Rigoletto Rigoletto Lyric Opera of San Antonio
Rigoletto Rigoletto AVA Opera
Rigoletto Rigoletto Westfield Symphony Orchestra
Amonasro Aida AVA Opera
Escamillo Carmen New York City Opera
Escamillo Carmen Opera Grand Rapids

ORATORIO
Beethoven Symphony #9 Honolulu Symphony Orchestra
Handel Messiah Avery Fisher Hall
Haydn The Creation Baltimore, Maryland
Soloist Mass in Time of War Peabody Concert Orchestra
Mendelssohn Elijah Baltimore, Maryland
Puccini Messa di Gloria Peniel Concert Choir (NY)
Puccini Messa di Gloria Westfield Symphony Orchestra
Puccini Mottetta per San Paolino - U.S. Premiere Westfield Symphony Orchestra
Brahms A German Requiem Daejeon Arts Center
Verdi Verdi Requiem Daejeon Arts Center

RECITAL
Duo Recital Artist Series of Sarasota 2004
Opera Gala Concert Québec Symphony Orchestra 2003
Solo recital Daytona Beach, Florida 2003
Opera Gala Concert Mexican Symphony Orchestra at Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico 2002
Opera Gala Concert Montréal Symphony Orchestra 2001
Solo Recital Washington, DC 2001
Solo Recital Ames, IA 2001
8th Annual Marilyn Horne Recital Lincoln Center 2001
Solo Recital Kosciuszko Foundation (NY) 1999
Winner Concert BBC National Orchestra
of Wales, Barbican Hall
1999
Solo Recital Seattle, Washington

COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
Lieder prize The Cardiff Singer of the World Competition 2000
Winner Placido Domingo Fellowship Award at The Academy of Vocal Arts
Winner Concours International de Montréal des Jeunesses Musicales 2002
First Prize The Marilyn Horne Foundation Voice Competition 1998
First Prize Licia Albanese-Puccini International Voice Competition 1997
First Prize Liederkranz Foundation Voice Competition 2000
First Prize Annapolis Opera Voice Competition 1999
First Prize Mario Lanza Voice Competition 1997
First Prize James Parkinson Italian Opera Voice Competition 1998

YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAMS
Summer Music Festival Music Academy of the West 1998, 1999
Summer Opera, Tanglewood Falstaff with Maestro Seiji Ozawa 2000

EDUCATION
Artist Diploma Academy of Vocal Arts (Philadelphia) 2001
Master of Music Peabody Conservatory 1997
Graduate Performance Diploma Peabody Conservatory 1996