Joyce Lee Tung

Photo Credit: Kate Bird

soprano

Soprano, Joyce Lee Tung graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) with a majoring in piano. During this time, she also studied voice privately with Lim Shieh Yih. She later earned a Master of Arts in Voice under KS Joanna Borowska-Isser and a Masters in Concert Singing under Christine Whittlesey and Robert Heimann from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria.

Joyce was finalist and winner in several international singing competitions, including placing 2nd in the International Singing Competition in Maribor, Slovenia (2018). She has been featured on European radio multiple times, performing a range of music from early to new music repertories, including the premiere of Americ Goh’s composition.

Joyce is also co-founder of The Art Song Coterie, a collective dedicated to promoting the art song and its refined performance. Her notable concert appearances include solo performances with NAFA Orchestra, Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonic Wind Orchestra (Singapore). She has also performed internationally at the 14th Annual Chamber Music Festival of the Central Conservatory of Music 2023 in Beijing and the 42nd Daegu International Music Festival 2023 in Korea.

Her professional operatic engagements include Tonina (Salieri’s Prima la musica), Madame Herz (Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor),  Frasquita (Bizet’s Carmen), Zerlina (Mozart’s Don Giovanni – abridged version) and Adele (J. Strauss’ Die Fledermaus) with Singapore Lyric Opera; Queen of the Night (Mozart’s The Magic Flute) with Kuala Lumpur City Opera, Marzelline (Beethoven’s Fidelio – abridged version) and Elettra (Mozart’s Idomeneo – film version) with The Opera People, Isabella (Rossini’s L’inganno felice) with Lirica Arts, Gilda (Verdi’s Rigoletto) and Foreign Princess (Dvořak’s Rusalka) with New Opera Singapore.

Currently, Joyce serves as an adjunct principal study lecturer for voice at University of the Arts Singapore - Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and as an adjunct voice teacher at School of The Arts, Singapore.