Boram Ahn is a collaborative pianist based in Berlin. With extensive experience as an opera repetiteur she has played and coached a wide range of operatic repertoire in North America and Germany. She held the position of Solorepetitorin at Theater Osnabrück for productions including Fidelio and Der Bettelstudent, as well as at Landestheater Detmold, where she contributed to Der Fliegende Holländer, Rigoletto, and Hans Werner Henze’s Elegies für Junge Liebende. Her engagements also took her to Thüringer Schlossfestspiel Sondershausen for Anatevka and Theater Nordhausen for Salome, Anatevka, and Luisa Fernanda. In addition, she has been part of several summer programs and festivals as a pianist and repetiteur, such as the Canadian Vocal Art Institute, Brevard Music Festival, Lyric Opera Studio Weimar, and Narnia Vocal Art Festival. In January 2024, she will be the part of Aida production in Hamburg’s Barclay Arena and on its European tour.
In Berlin, Boram is actively engaged in local projects and collaborates with various musical organizations and groups. She frequently collaborates with the artist collective MusikfürMusik, where she appeared in aria concerts and R.Strauss’s Elektra. This season, she will be performing their semi-staged performance of Ariadne auf Naxos and collaborate as repetiteur in Carmen. She has worked as a pianist for the Dramatic Voices Program, Berlin Wagner Gruppe, Kammerakademie Potsdam’s educational project ‘Stadtteil Macht Oper,’ Opera Programs Berlin, and maintains a busy private studio in Berlin. She greatly enjoys supporting singers of different levels in their preparation for roles, auditions, recording sessions, concerts, and Lieder projects.
Boram Ahn was born and raised in South Korea and studied composition, piano performance, and collaborative piano at McGill University. During her time at McGill, both as a student and later as a staff pianist, she served as a repetiteur in numerous Opera McGill productions, including La bohème, Dido and Aeneas, Canadian premiere of Volpone by John Musto, The Rake’s Progress, and Turn of the screw. During her time in McGill, she had opportunities to work with many influential composers, teachers and conductors, including Brian Cherney, Jean Lesage, Richard Raymond, Kyoko Hashimoto, Michael McMahon, Patrick Hansen, and Julian Wachner.
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