Soprano Yeonjoo Katharina Jang began her musical education at Seoul National University in her native South Korea before continuing her studies at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar in Germany, where she was awarded a DAAD scholarship. During her academic career, she won first prize at the Piero Boni International Singing Competition and second prize at the Anton Rubinstein International Music Competition. After graduating in 2020, she made her professional debut as Olympia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar.

In the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons, she was a member of the Opera Studio at the Hamburg State Opera, where her roles included Ciboulette in Hahn’s Ciboulette, Barbarina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Giannetta in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Thibault in Verdi’s Don Carlos, Contessa di Ceprano and Paggio in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Taumännchen in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, Lucienne in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt, Jano in Janáček’s Jenůfa, and EOA in Andrew Norman’s A Trip to the Moon, which had its German premiere.

In the 2024/25 season, she made her role debut as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Landestheater Neustrelitz. She also appeared at the Hamburg State Opera, where she sang Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Blumenmädchen in Wagner’s Parsifal. Beyond her operatic achievements, she is an active concert performer, appearing as a soloist in sacred works such as J. S. Bach’s solo cantata, Haydn’s The Creation, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor and Requiem, and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle. Recent highlights include performances with the Orquestra Simfònica de les Illes Balears at Castell de Bellver in Mallorca and with the Belgrade Chamber Orchestra in the Grosser Saal of the Elbphilharmonie.

In the 2025/26 season, she makes her role debut as Konstanze in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Landestheater Neustrelitz.