Will (June Young) Kim
Korean-American Baritone Will (June Young) Kim is a current Artist Diploma student at Juilliard, studying under Darrell Babidge and Stephen Wadsworth.
Born in 1996 in South Korea, he has since lived in Canada, USA and Germany. He received his BM from IU Bloomington in composition with a minor in voice studying with Peter Volpe. He received a Masters in Composition from HMT München and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Composition from HMDK Stuttgart. From the same school, he received a Masters in Voice (with emphasis on contemporary music) as a student of Yeree Suh and Angelika Luz.
Recent concert engagements include Bach’s oratorio works with Jos van Veldhoven and Hans-Christoph Rademann in Stuttgart, Bach’s Coffee Cantata in Prangins, a production of La Traviata in Sulz am Glatt and Die Fledermaus in Tübingen. Engagements for contemporary music include concerts in Stuttgart, Bonn, Halberstadt, Graz and Milan. As a 2025 Tanglewood Fellow, he performed as a soloist with Harry Christophers & The Sixteen, gave recitals of traditional and contemporary repertoire and portrayed the Clock in Ravel’s L’Enfant. He was a part of Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio and Joyce DiDonato program. He was a 2026 Caramoor Schwab Vocal Rising Star of New York Festival of Song.
Recent opera engagements include Germont (La Traviata) / David (Babel 46) at Opera Company of Middlebury, participates as a Britten Pears Young Artist, and Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor) / Sander (Zemire et Azor) at the Berkshire Opera Festival.
Repertoire
Opera
Composer
George Benjamin
Leonard Bernstein
Gaetano Donizetti
Charloes Gounod
André Grétry
G.F. Händel
G.F. Händel
Erich Korngold
Xavier Montsalvatge
Wolfang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfang Amadeus Mozart
Giacomo Puccini
Maruice Ravel
Johann Strauss II
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Richard Wagner
Opera
Picture a day like this
On the Town
Lucia di Lammermoor
Faust
Zémire et Azor
Semele
Rinaldo
Die tote Stadt
Babel 46
Le Nozze di Figaro
Don Giovanni
Edgar
L’Enfant et les Sortilèges
Die Fledermaus
La Traviata
La Traviata
Il Trovatore
Tannhäuser
Role/Aria
Collector’s Aria
Lucky to be me
Enrico (Entire Role)
Avant de quitter ces lieux
Sander (Entire Role)
Leave me loathsome light
Sibillar gli angui d’Aletto
Pierrots Tanzlied
David (Entire Role)
Hia gia vinta la causa
Deh, vieni all finestra
Questo Amor
L’horloge comtoise
Frank (Entire role)
Germont (Entire role)
Marchese (Entire role)
Il balen del suo sorriso
Wolfram (Arias)
Early Music & Oratorio
Composer
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
J.S. Bach
Giulio Caccini
G.F. Händel
G.F. Händel
Michael Haydn
Michel Lambert
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Claudio Monteverdi
Heinrich Schütz
Work
Ascension Oratorio, BWV 11
Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69
Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78
Ich habe genug, BWV 82
Herr Christ, der ein’ge Gottessohn, BWV 96
Das neuegeborne Kindelein, BWV 122
Coffee Cantata, BWV 211 (staged)
Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Mass in A Major, BWV 234
Mass in G Major, BWV 236
Magnificat, BWV 243
Matthäuspassion, BWV 244 (all recit & arias)
Johannespassion, BWV 245 (all recit & arias)
Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248 (all recit & arias)
Amarilli mia bella
Samson HWV 57 (Just are the ways)
L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato HWV 55
Missa sub titulo Sancti Francisci
Vos mépris chaque jour
Elias
Paulus
Lasciatemi Morire
Johannespassion
Art Song
Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Hector Berlioz
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Benjamin Britten
Sidney Corbett
Claude Debussy
Pascal Dusapin
Hanns Eisler
Carlos Guastavino
Carlos Guastavino
Heinz Holliger
Erich Korngold
Carl Loewe
Xavier Montsalvatge
Wolfgang Rihm
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
Richard Strauss
Anton Webern
Anton Webern
Jörg Widmann
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Karl Weigl
Hugo Wolf
Work
An die ferne Geliebte
Nuits d’Été (Le spectre de la rose)
Feldeinsamkeit
Sonntag
The last rose of summer
Evening’s search for beauty
Romance
O Mensch!
Ernste Gesänge
La rosa y el sauce
Flores Argentinas (Cortadera, Plumerito)
Drei Lieder
Sommer
Erlkönig
Canço Amorosa
Neue Alexander Lieder
An die Musik
Der Lindenbaum
Heidenröslein
Nachtstück
Der Zwerg
Auf dem See
Gruppe aus dem Tartarus
An die untergehende Sonne
Der Tod und das Mädchen
Der Lindenbaum
An Sylvia
Jägers Abendlied
Wandrers Nachtlied D. 768
Im Abendrot
An schwager Kronos
Winterreise
Rückblick
Der Wegweiser
Schwanengesang (Heine Lieder)
Am Meer
Der Atlas
Der Doppelgänger
Die Stadt
Ihr Bild
Nachtviolen
Memnon
Fräulein vom See
Normannsgesang
Lied des gefangenen Jägers
Geheimnis D.491
Der Schiffer
Mondnacht
Myrten
X. Die Hochländer-Wittwe
XIII. Hochländers Abschied
XIV. Hochländisches Wiegenlied
Traum durch die Dämmerung
Am Ufer
Fromm
Das heiße Herz (Der arme Kaspar)
Songs of Travel
The Vagabond
Bright is the ring of words
Whiter must I wander
I have trod the upward and downward slope
Five Duets for Soprano and Baritone
Wohl denk ich oft
Contemporary
Composer
Georges Aperghis
Marco di Bari
Sidney Corbett
George Crumb
Pascal Dusapin
Heinz Holliger
Liza Lim
Isabel Mundry
Wolfgang Rihm
Valerio Sannicandro
Arnold Schönberg
Jörg Widmann
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Work
Retrouvailles
Frammento Primo
Evening’s Search for Beauty
Ghosts of Alhambra
O Mensch!
Drei Lieder
Three Angels
Wait
Neue Alexander Lieder
Strali
Ode to Napoleon
Das heiße Herz (Der arme Kaspar)
Ich wandte mich und sah an alles Unrecht
(updated Aug. 27, 2026)