Korean-American countertenor Kangmin Justin Kim was born in South Korea and grew up in Chicago. He studied voice, opera, and musical theater at Northwestern University in Evanston and the Royal Academy of Music, London. During his studies, he has participated in masterclasses with artists such as Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Dennis O’Neill, Thomas Quasthoff and June Anderson.

In the 2015/2016 season, Justin makes his role debut as Cherubino in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and sings the title role of Kalitzke's newly written opera, Pym at Theater Heidelberg. In the winter, he sings Enea in Handel/Vinci pasticcio Didone Abbandonata and gives a solo recital titled Gelosia, featuring music by Bononcini, Handel, Hasse, Mancini, and Porpora at the Rococo Theatre Schloss Schwetzingen. In March 2016 he will sing his first Sesto in Handel's Giulio Cesare at the Handel Week Festival in Oak Park (USA) and in May 2016 he will revive his portrayal of Enea in Didone Abbandonata at the Handel Festival Halle.

During the 2014/2015 season, Justin made his Parisian debut and role debut as Prince Orlofsky in Strauss' La Chauve-Souris (Die Fledermaus) at Opéra Comique under the musical direction of Marc Minkowski and Oreste in Offenbach's La Belle Hélène at Théâtre du Châtelet. He returned to Opéra National de Montpellier to portray Sesto in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito, as well as concluding his tour of Cavalli's Elena through Angers, Nantes, and Rennes.

Justin’s 2013/2014 schedule included his role debut as Menelao in Cavalli’s Elena at Opéra National de Montpellier and Opéra de Lille conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón, Idamante in Mozart’s Idomeneo at Stadttheater Gießen under the baton of Michael Hofstetter, Handel’s Gloria in excelsis Deo at the Dartington Hall, Devon and his recital debut at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford.

Active in competitions, Justin is a winner of the Les Azuriales Prize (Nice, France), the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Wisconsin District), the 4th International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera Pietro Antonio Cesti (Innsbruck, Austria), the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform (Oxford, England), the Michael Head Song Prize (RAM, London, England), the Prix Mermod for Voice (Verbier, Switzerland), and the 2012 Stuart Burrows International Voice Award (Carmarthen, Wales). Most recently, he was a finalist of the 34th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition (Amsterdam, Netherlands).

His future engagements include Nerone in L'incoronazione di Poppea and Speranza in L'Orfeo at the Palau de la Musica Barcelona, the Leipzig Bachfest, the Edinburgh Festival, the Luzern Festival, the Berliner Festspiele, the Los Angeles Disney Hall and at the New York Lincoln Center conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Arsilda with the Collegium 1704 in Bratislava, at the Theater an der Wien, in Caen, Lille, Luxembourg, Versailles and Dijon, Giulio Cesare in Glyndebourne under the musical direction of William Christie, Speranza in L'Orfeo by Monteverdi at Opéra de Dijon and Romeo in Zingarelli's Romeo e Giulietta in Schwetzingen,