The Musical in Concert

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ARTIST'S BIOS

Soprano

Suhyun Christine Kim is a singer and an actor. She is currently training MA in Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music. She has performed various musicals and plays, "Colored Lights: Kander and Ebb,", "Maison Mac", "Interruption" and Shakespeare’s "As You Like It" in London. Christine also debuted on the stage through the role of Sooni in the opera Bom, Bom, sponsored by the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which toured national opera houses in Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic. She graduated Magna cum Laude from her dual bachelor’s degrees in Music and Media Communication from Hanyang University at Seoul, South Korea. Whilst there, she won the Kyunghyang Musical Concours Prize. She also worked as a news presenter and journalist for Korean press media, where she found a connection between broadcast and performance. Christine is passionate about volunteering in disadvantaged countries to teach music to children. Recently, she went to Poland to help with Ukrainian children who are refugees. She seeks to positively influence people and communities through her love of music, as part of a future career in musical theatre.

Musical Director /Accompanist

Ian Sutherland is musical director/supervisor and composer. Ian has worked for numerous productions of musical theatre in Scotland, including Sweeney Todd (Brunton Theatre), Rabbie (Burns and Beyond Festival), and RENT (Gilded Balloon). Also, he has been co-orchestrator/vocal arranger at the Royal Academy of Music for Colored Lights: The Songs of Kander & Ebb (2022) and composer of an original score for Shakespeare’s As You Like It (2023). He held the position of Music Lecturer/Resident Musical Director at the MGA Academy of Performing Arts, Edinburgh.

Tenor

Pétur Ernir Svavarsson holds a BMus in Piano and Voice Performance from the Iceland University of the Arts. In 2020 he won the Audience Prize in the Vox Domini Vocal Competition as well as a prize for his performance of Icelandic arts songs. Pétur has performed with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra as a singer.

Whitman Ensemble

Miles Ames Violin / Inis Oirr Asano Viola / George Wikes Cello / James Trowbridge Double Bass

The Whitman Ensemble is a London-based piano quintet with double bass founded by students of the Royal Academy of Music. In 2021 and 2022, they were awarded second prize two years consecutively in the Academy’s prestigious Harold Craxton Chamber Competition. They recently performed at the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Raphael Gallery as part of the Glastonbury Pastoral Concerts series.