Born in Seoul (South Korea), Carlo Kang is graduated in singing at “Kyung-hee” Univeristy and in 1998 he moved to Italy, graduating at “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory of Milan.
He is the winner of several lyrical competitions as “Vincenzo Bellini” of Caltanissetta (1998), “Giuseppe Verdi” (1999) and “Maria Callas – Nuove voci per Verdi” (2000) of Parma, “Operalia – Placido Domingo” (2001), “Jaume Aragall” of Girona (2002) and Opera Dresden (2003).
He made his debut in Italy at Teatro Regio of Parma in <Il trovatore>, following by several performances in Verdi’s operas: <Rigoletto>/Theatre of Cairo, <Ernani>/Seoul Art Center, <La forza del destino>/Spain, <Don Carlo>/Linz, <Aroldo (Egberto)>/Teatro Alighieri of Ravenna and <La Traviata (Germont)> in Frankfurt. Among the most important engagements we underline the participation on 2001 at the concert at Quirinale with Rai Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. The Toscanini Foundation of Parma invited him on 2003 for <I vespri siciliani (Busseto, conductor Stefano Ranzani, director Pier Luigi Pizzi)>. With the opera <I cavalieri di Ekebù> by Zandonai, in the role of Cristiano, he has inaugurated the 2004/05 season at Teatro Verdi of Trieste. He did also <Carmen> in Klagenfurt, <Andrea Chénier> at theatrical network in Lombardia, <Turandot (un Mandarino)> at Arena of Verona, <La forza del destino> in Rovigo and <Un ballo in maschera> at Teatro Bellini of Catania: in the latter theatre, on 2006, he debuted in <La gioconda (Barnaba)> conducted by Donato Renzetti. He was in Buenos Aires (Teatro Colon’) for <I vespri siciliani>; at Teatro Amazonas in Manaus (Brazil) he performed Barnaba in <La Gioconda>. He did Verdi’s <Otello> in Novara, <Andrea Chénier> in Catania and <I vespri siciliani> at Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa conducting by Renato Palumbo, <La Bohème> in Toyama Hall in Japan (conductor Myung-Whun Chung) and Graz, <Ernani> in Modena, Bellini’s <Zaira>(also for a recording session) in Montpellier, in a galà in Sassuolo and <L’elisir d’amore> in Korea. More recently he performed <Gogo no Eiko>(Festival Spoleto Due Mondi Opera) music composed by Hans Werner Henze, Rigoletto in <Rogoletto> (Seoul), Conte in <Le Nozze di Figaro> (Seoul), Escamilio in <Carmen> (Korea national), Scarpia in <Tosca> (Bari Festival), Nabucco in <Nabucco> (San Galgano Festival).
Nowadays, he works as a professor of singing in “Kyung-hee” University, plays his own planned musical series “The Dream” and he is loved by classic music fans by the music story in his solo album “Edelweiss” (2015).