Yoora Lee-Hoff – MIA Artists Management

Yoora Lee-Hoff
Soprano

Soprano Yoora Lee-Hoff (Yoora Lee) was born in Seoul, South Korea and lives in Dresden, Germany. As a child she learned to play the piano and won several national prizes in South Korea. Later she started playing the violin. She studied violin in Seoul, South Korea, Berlin and Leipzig, Germany.

While she was active as a violinist, her beautiful voice was discovered and she was invited to study vocal arts – opera at the University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig, Germany. Her first professional engagement was as a soprano at the Leipzig Opera House and then ontoSaxony’s theatre Dresden-Radebeul in Germany, while she was still studying.

Ms. Lee-Hoff performed at the international music festival Palma de Mallorca/ Spain, the Luisenburg Festival Wunsiedel, Germany and the opera festival Salvador de Bahia/ Brazil.

Ms. Lee-Hoff was engaged at the Dresden State Operetta, theatre Goerlitz and Bautzen, the state opera Schwerin, the theatre Dessau, the opera house Chemnitz, the theatre Gera and others in Germany. During the “Vienna Johannn Strauss Concert Gala” tour she was singing at several major concert halls such as the Tonhalle Zurich, the Residenz Munich and the Berlin Philharmonie in Germany and Switzerland, among others.

Ms. Lee-Hoff’s concert work has taken her to concert halls in Germany, USA, Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Spain, Ukraine, Estonia, Japan, China and South Korea.

“...Yoora Lee-Hoff’s airy and light interpretation of the ‘Fruehlingsstimmenwalzer’, that she was twittering like a little bird. Very pleasing was also the duet ‘Wer uns getraut’ from the ‘Zigeunerbaron.”

Sigrid Schuer

Bremer Weserkurier, Germany

“...The secret star of the evening was the Korean soprano, that ravished the audience with charming humor, virtuous coloratura, flawless intonation and enormous vigor.”

Christoph Clören

Westfälische Rundschau, Germany

“...she started with her well-shaped voice and clear but warm timbre... with her immensely intensive recital she enthused the audience... in addition she satisfied with charism and acting talent...”

Neustaedter Kreisbote, Germany