Praised for the remarkable agility, precision and warmth of her voice, and for her outstanding musicianship, Sumi Jo has established herself as one of her generation's most sought-after sopranos. She has been consistently greeted with exceptional accolades, by public and press alike, for her performances in the most important opera houses and concert halls throughout the world.

As a world class coloratura soprano, she has actively extended her role is various opera productions in the world opera stages. New additions to her repertoire in recent years have been Delibes' Lakeme, Meyerbeer's Dinorah and Giulietta in I Capuleti ed i Montecchi, which she sang for the Minnesota Opera; Madame Mao of Adam's opera Nixon in China at Theatre du Chatelet, Russia Recital, Beijing Music Festival, Australia Tour concerts, Concert at Teatro Colon and Japan tour concerts.

Many recitals and concerts made her travel all over the world. Her Asian Tour Concerts with AAM (Academy of Ancient Music), six Japanese City Tour concerts, Mahler Festival in Shanghai are few of many concerts she performed. She plans to release new album based on Bach's composition in early 2013 and excited to tour Asia, Japan and Australia. She has also enlightened public with her crossover stages in many places ever since her first Broadway Songs concert in Carnegie Hall accompanied by The Orchestra of St. Luke's in 2001. She sold more than 1,200,000 copies of her first crossover album Only Love worldwide, adding to her list of best-selling recordings.

Her 2013 started with her year performances by sing for Korea's new presidential inauguration ceremony which are followed by Korea tour concerts, Russia piano recital, Shanghai recital, China Philharmonic Invitation concerts and singing in Vatican in November.

Her 2014 engagements are Asia Four Country tour concerts, Singing in the Closing Ceremony in Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics Games, Korea Tour Concerts, Russia, Kazakhstan, Paris Recital in May at Palais Royal, Role of Fiakermilli in Strauss' opera Arabella at Hamburg, Donizetti's opera Le convenienze ed inconvenienze Teatrali in Frenze in June through July in the first half of the year.

Ms. Jo currently has over 50 recordings to her credit, which include ten solo albums for Universal Music and Warner Music. Among them are a Grammy-winning Die Frau ohne Schatten with Sir Georg Solti for London/Decca and Un Ballo in Maschera for Deutsche Grammophon under Herbert von Karajan. She has also recorded The Magic Flute and an album of arias under the baton of Maestro Solti.

Ms. Jo has won many prestigious awards including first prizes at international competitions in Seoul, Naples, Enna, Barcelona and Pretoria. In August 1986 she was unanimously awarded first prize in the Carlo Alberto Cappelli International Competition at Verona, one of the world's most important contests, open only to first prize-winners of other major competitions. She was elected as "Artist for Peace" of UNESCO in 2003 and received "The Puccini Award". Ms. Jo makes her home in Rome.