Jongmin Park wins Cardiff Song Prize

South Korean baritone Jongmin Park has won the first award handed out at the 2015 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, by taking home the Song Prize. The Song Prize winner receives £5,000.
Judging the Song Prize was chairman David Pountney, Julius Drake, John Gilhooly, Soile Isokoski and Claron McFadden.

He performed Schubert's Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt and Der Atlas, Schumann's Stille Tränen, Tosti's Ideale, Du-Nam Cho's Boat Song.

The competitors are now competing fothe Main Prize Final on Sunday at 7.30pm and its £15,000 prize.

Ukrainian Baritone Andrei Bondarenko Wins Cardiff Song Prize

Andrei Bondarenko

24-year-old Ukrainian baritone Andrei Bondarenko has has won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize.  Bondarenko bested four other young singers in the competition. Bondarenko, has been a member of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers since 2007.

Bondarenko sang a diverse program that included Robert Schumann and Georgi Sviridov. The Song Prize jury was chaired by John Fisher, former chief executive and artistic director of Welsh National Opera, and included Marilyn Horne, baritone Håkan Hagegård, Swedish pianist Bengt Forsberg and BBC Radio 3's Adam Gatehouse. This wasn't his first win at a major competition, he previously won the 2006 International Rimsky-Korsakov competition and took first prize at the international vocal competition "Art in the 21st Century" in Vorzel (Ukraine).

Future highlights will include his debut with the Glyndebourne Festival & Touring Opera. 

Here is his prize-winning song program:

Here his performance from the aria competition:



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