Korean-American Baritone June Young (Will) Kim (1996) received his Bachelor of Music from Indiana University Bloomington with a double major in composition and voice studying under Peter Volpe. He holds a Masters in Composition from HMT München and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Composition from HMDK Stuttgart. Since 2022, he is pursuing a Masters in Gesang (Neue Musik) at HMDK Stuttgart as a student of Yeree Suh and Angelika Luz. From 2026-2028, he will be an Artist Diploma candidate at Juilliard.

As a soloist, he performs both traditional concert/opera repertoire and contemporary music. Recent engagements as a soloist include a staged Coffee Cantata in Prangins, Bach’s oratorio works with Jos van Veldhoven and Hans-Christoph Rademann in Stuttgart, a production of La Traviata in Sulz am Glatt and Die Fledermaus in Tübingen. Recent engagements for contemporary music include concerts in Stuttgart, Bonn, Halberstadt, Graz and Milan. He was a 2025 Tanglewood Music Center fellow, where he performed various solo and operatic repertoire, working with artists such as Dawn Upshaw, Randall Scarlatta, Will Liverman, Peter Sellars and Harry Chrstophers & The Sixteen. In 2026, he will be a Carnegie Hall SongStudio fellow and a Caramoor Schwab Vocal Rising Star of New York Festival of Song. He is based in New York and Stuttgart.