South Korean bass Jongmin Park was born in Seoul and studied singing in his hometown at the Korea National University of Arts with Hans Choi. While still in Seoul, he performed such roles as Sarastro in Mozart' s Die Zauberflöte, Sparafucile in Verdi' s Rigoletto and Geronimo in Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto.

Since the 2010-11 season, Mr. Park has been a member of the ensemble at the Hamburg State Opera, where his roles have included Sparafucile in Verdi's Rigoletto, Il Re in Verdi's Aida, Sagrestano in Puccini's Tosca, Bonzo in Puccini's Madame Butterfly, Avosmediano in Palestrina by Pfitzner and Masetto in Mozart's Don Giovanni. In November 2011, he had a major success in his debut at the Vienna State Opera as Colline in Puccini's La Bohème. Future seasons will see Mr. Park return to the Hamburg State Opera in leading roles such as Colline, Masetto, Truffaldino in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, and Wagner in Gounod's Faust, as well as concert performances in Hamburg and Seoul.

In 2007 Mr. Park was selected to join the Academy of the Teatro alla Scala, where he studied under the guidance of Mirella Freni, Luciana Serra, Luigi Alva, and Renato Bruson. In the following three years at La Scala he interpreted roles such as Doctor in Verdi's Macbeth, Bartolo in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Keeper in The Rake's Progress by Stravinsky and Impresario in Donizetti's Le Convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali. 

In demand as a concert soloist in Korea and abroad, Jongmin Park has an extensive concert repertoire. His engagements on the concert stage have included Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de Confessore conducted by Myung-Whun Chung as part of La Scala’s annual Christmas concert, Beethoven's Mass in C major in the Auditorium in Turin with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Beethoven’s Symphony Nr. 9 with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra under Myung-Whun Chung, and Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Haydn’s Missa in Tempore belli, both at KNUA Hall in Seoul. He has also taken the stage in concerts and at music festivals at prestigious venues including the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Mariinsky Theatre, the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi, the Auditorium Sony in Madrid, the Ravello Festival, and Napoli Theatre Festival in Pompei. He has sung solo recitals in Munich and Frankfurt with pianist Vincenzo Scalera.

Mr. Park has received numerous prizes and awards in his career. In July 2011 he was awarded the overall first prize for male voices at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. In the same month he also won the special Wagner award, the Birgit Nilsson Prize, at Plàcido Domingo's Operalia competition at the Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow under the baton of Plàcido Domingo. In October 2011 he won both the second prize and audience award at the Neue Stimmen international singing competition held in Gütersloh, Germany, under the auspices of the Bertelsmann Foundation. In November 2009 he won both the first prize and the Audience prize at the inaugural Stella Maris international vocal competition. Participation in this competition is by invitation only, with one artist nominated by the Academy of Teatro alla Scala, as well as one each by the Hamburg State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Opéra National de Paris, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Zurich Opera House and the Canadian Opera Company. In 2008 he was awarded the overall first prize for male voices and the Critic’s prize at at the International Voice Competition in Bilbao, Spain and went on to appear as Tom in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera  at the Euskalduna theatre in Bilbao. In July 2007 he won the special prize of the Chambre Professionnelle des directeurs d'Opéra Paris at the International Hans Gabor Belvedere competition in Vienna. While still a student he also won first prize in the competition of the Korea National Association for Music and the Gold Prize in the Korea National Company of Lyric Opera singing competition.

Mr. Park lives in Hamburg, Germany.

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