It Is Enough!: Singing Oratorio Aria for Baritone by Yuman Lee

Discover the wide range of emotion with which you may perform the oratorio arias of George Frideric Handel and Felix Mendelssohn.

It Is Enough! is a useful tool for performers and voice instructors alike. The performance notes inside highlight the principles of voice pedagogy needed to perform the musical notes themselves by identifying areas of challenge for the singer and making suggestions on how to address them.

A native of South Korea, Yuman Lee serves as an Assistant Professor of Music at Shorter University in Rome, Georgia. He teaches lyric diction, voice pedagogy, opera literature, voice seminar, and private voice.

Dr. Lee holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance from the School of Church Music, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX. As a recipient of James Mckinney Outstanding Performer Award from the President of SWBTS, he performed with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. While there, he was selected as a vocal arts honors recitalist 2009-2010, 2010-2011, and 2013-2014.

"My teaching philosophy has guided the conclusion that each student is a unique person, having incompatible strengths, weakness, and intentions to the voice studio. I believe that the most critical ability students must learn is the skill to acquire a knowledge of the art of singing and create independently so that after they leave the school setting, they can engage in music and intellectual activities on their own. My purpose is to help my students be their own best teacher and to support student’s growth into human beings who will contribute their knowledge and talents to society. I hope for students to comprehend the mind-body connection involved in singing as well as I want them to experience singing as a great pleasure and natural expression of their feeling."

Dr. Lee is married to Myung Hee Ha, and he has three children; Joseph, Elizabeth, and Anna.

•  Opera– Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Pasquale, The Rape of Lucrecia, I Capuleti e I Montecchi, La Boheme, and more.

• Oratorio and Sacred work– Bach BWV 80 (Ein feste Burg ist Gott), BWV 82 (Ich habe genug), Messiah, Missa in tempore belli, Creation, Requiem (Mozart and Verdi), Elijah, Ein Deutsches Requiem, Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Christmas Oratorio, and more.