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Bios:

David Won, Tenor

Tenor David Won is a popular recitalist and concert singer based in the Greater Boston area.  He has performed around USA as well

as the world, including Dominican Republic, Malta, Ukraine, Italy, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.

He has collaborated with many performers like Maria Lyudko, sop, Dominika Zamara, sop, Jason Camilleri, trumpet, Milica

Lawrence, piano, etc.

Over the years he has also collaborated with many living composers like Lina Tonia of Greece, Stefan Shema of France, Sonja Beets

of France, Bartolomeo Cosenza of Italy, Dr. Hyun Kook of South Korea, Konstancja Kochaniac of Poland, Carol Koffinke of

Pembroke, MA, Mark Hayes of Kansas City, MO.

He was a featured soloist at the 9/11 memorial service in 2015 at the Massachusetts Statehouse. In 2013 he was a featured soloist in

the Great Mass in C Minor by Mozart with Chorus pro Musica and the New England Philarmonic, under the direction of Dr. Betsy

Burleigh. Since December of 2014 he has coached regularly with Timothy Steele and has performed about 150 full recitals. 

Tenor David Won entered Seoul Theological Seminary to study Church Music in 1980, then transferred to Seattle Pacific University,

where he received a BA in religion, 1983.  In 1986 he received a Master of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary, and in 1993 a

Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School.  He has always been deeply involved in music, particularly choral

music.  He has sung with Soong Sil OB Chorus, Korea Broadcasting Station Chorus, Harvard Glee Club, Church of the Advent of

Boston under the direction of Dr. Edith Ho (to whose musicianship he is deeply indebted), and recently Chorus pro Musica of Boston. 

With these groups he has sung as a chorister and as a soloist.

He would like to offer a special thanks to Mr. Young Jun Kim, his first voice teacher of 45 plus years ago.  During a very difficult

time in David's life he provided encouragement and was kind, generous, genius, and hilarious.

His first CD, “Only Love” featuring Pascal Szymczak’s works was released in December of 2017, and his second CD “Languages of

Love” in February of 2018.

Timothy Steele, Piano

Timothy Steele is an active vocal coach, collaborative pianist, and conductor, and is currently in his 32nd year on the opera faculty at

New England Conservatory. Also he has conducted for outreach tours with the Boston Lyric Opera (more than 200 performances for

school children) and is a former music director for Opera Providence. He has served as conductor/pianist for over 180 operatic

productions with 33 companies, including Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Wolf Trap

Opera, Central City Opera, and Opera Maine. In workshops and rehearsals he assisted with the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera

MADAME WHITE SNAKE for productions in Boston and Taiwan.

He has played for thousands of opera auditions and competitions, assisted as recording producer for two award-winning recordings,

and as a vocal coach has worked with both young singers and seasoned professionals, such as Denyce Graves, Bryn Terfel, and James

Maddelena. He is currently the producer of Milton Community Concerts and is the music director/organist at historic First Parish

Church in Milton, MA. In Boston he has performed with Emmanuel Music (where he played for a decade of weekly Bach cantatas),

the Handel and Haydn Society, and the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, among others.

A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Timothy received his Bachelor of Music from Drake University and a Master of Music from the

University of Southern California, where he studied collaborative piano with Gwendolyn Koldofsky.