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Sol Kim Bentley
Soprano
New England Third Place Winner, 1998

A native of Potomac, Maryland, soprano Sol Kim began her academic career in Film Studies, graduating magna cum laude from Yale University while studying voice with Jane Dutton and Jerold Siena. In 1999, she received two Master's Degrees with Academic Honors and Distinction in Performance in Opera and Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston, where she studied voice with Susan Clickner and Kathleen Kaun, and opera with John Moriarty. While at NEC, Ms. Kim sang in Master Classes with Warren Jones, Pierre Vallet, and Martin Isepp. Recent performances include Sr. Mathilde in Dialogues of the Carmelites with Central City Opera, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro with Longwood Opera, and Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte with Chrysalis Opera, a company she co-founded with other Boston-based singers in the winter of 2001. Last fall, she was an artist-in-residence with Central City Opera for their "Opera in the Rockies" tour of Colorado and Wyoming.

In 1998, Ms. Kim won 2nd place in NEC's Voice Department Concerto Competition. She was the 3rd place winner in the 1998 New England Regional Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, where she was also awarded the Iride Pilla Memorial Award. In 2001, Ms. Kim was once again named a finalist in the New England Regional Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Ms. Kim is a student of Patricia Craig. She recently returned from a tour of Eastern Europe as the principal soloist in a concert of arias with the Worcester Youth Symphony Orchestra. Upcoming engagements include Micaëla in Carmen with Longwood Opera as well as a Spectrum Resident Artist contract with Virginia Opera for next season, where she will cover Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera and Rosina in The Barber of Seville.

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