
She is fast emerging as one of the most compelling lyric voices of her generation. An alumna of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Program, Opéra National de Lyon Studio, and Verbier Festival, she is a first prize winner of the Helmut Deutsch Liedwettbewerb and the Concours international de chant-piano Nadia et Lili Boulanger. From the 2025/26 season, she is a BBC New Generation Artist. A passionate recitalist, Baikoff appears at Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Heidelberg Festival, Schubertíada Villabertran, the Wiener Konzerthaus, or Lincoln Center. A member of the Bayerische Staatsoper ensemble, we find among her roles Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Clorinda (La Cenerentola), Najade (Ariadne auf Naxos), and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel). On the concert stage, she performs Mozart’s Requiem, Ravel’s Shéhérazade, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem.

After graduating from elementary school in Jeju Island, Soohong Park went to Detmold Germany at the age of 12 and joined as Jungstudent at Hochschule für Musik Detmold. After completing both Bachelor and Masters degrees in 2016, he moved to London in order to study further at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. As Guildhall Artist, he has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York and Barbican Hall in London, and has performed regularly with the orchestras in Germany and England. In 2018, he attended IMS Prussia Cove in the UK and in the following year, he was the finalist of Isang Yun International Music Competition in Tongyeong, South Korea. In 2020, he was the winner of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama's most prestigious Gold Medal Competition. He has two masters degrees in both chamber music and vocal accompaniment, and an Artist Diploma degree as a soloist.


