Tenor Dr. Min Jin enjoys a versatile and wide-ranging career as an operatic tenor, recitalist, conductor, and voice professor. Praised for his easy lyricism, emotional depth, and brilliant upper register, he has appeared in opera, concert, and recital performances throughout the United States, South America, Italy, Canada, and South Korea.
Dr. Jin has performed in major venues including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center as a recitalist, operatic tenor, and oratorio soloist. His operatic repertoire includes leading and principal roles in La Bohème, Lucia di Lammermoor, Roméo et Juliette, Carmen, L’elisir d’amore, Die Zauberflöte, La Traviata, Tosca, Manon, Werther, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and La Rondine, among others, with companies such as Maryland Opera, New Jersey State Opera, Aspen Opera, Rochester Mercury Opera, DiCapo Opera, Grand Rapids Opera, Eastman Opera, and Grand Valley State University.
An active oratorio and chamber music artist, Dr. Jin has appeared as a soloist in works including Carmina Burana, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, Haydn’s The Creation and The Seasons, Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Symphony No. 9, Mendelssohn’s Elijah and St. Paul, and Mozart’s Requiem, collaborating with ensembles such as the Rochester Philharmonic, New Jersey Philharmonic, Toronto Sinfonia, Grand Rapids Symphony, and the Russian National Symphony.
A prizewinner in several international competitions, Dr. Jin holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Voice at Towson University, having previously taught at Grand Valley State University. As a conductor, he is Music Director of the Washington Soloists Ensemble and Bethel Church in Maryland. His students have earned recognition in national and international competitions, festivals, and young artist programs.