Guo Shuzhen

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Early experience

Guo Shuzhen was born in Tianjin on June 1, 1927.

Director of vocal music teaching and research section, tutor of postgraduates, member of Academic Committee and degree committee, member of Professional Title Evaluation Committee and expert group. He has applied for the post-graduate tutor of China Conservatory of music, Honorary Professor of Tianjin Conservatory of music, member of all previous professional evaluation committee of the Ministry of culture, executive director of China Musicians Association, etc.

She was an alumnus of Tianjin Haihe middle school from August 1943 to August 1946.

In 1947, he joined the Music Department of Beiping National College of arts to study vocal music. In 1949, the college was incorporated into the Central Conservatory of music. In 1950, he went to Yunnan for propaganda, performance, creation and collection with the southwest ethnic delegation of the Central Committee. He graduated in 1952 and stayed in school to teach. He graduated from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory of music in 1958 and won the title of excellent opera and concert singer.

In 1957, he won the first prize and gold medal in the International Vocal Music Competition (in 1955, he won the third prize in the international vocal music competition). During the study period, besides starring in the opera of Tchaikovsky Conservatory of music, she was invited to play "Mimi" in the opera "artist's life" and "tajiana" in the opera "Eugene Onegin" by Stanislavsky Danchenko model music opera house in Moscow and rivov Grand Theatre of the Republic of Ukraine in 1958. The performance was well received. Ye groshova, a famous music critic, wrote an article in the Russian Pravda, praising Guo Shuzhen's role as "Pushkin and Tchaikovsky heroine". After returning to China in 1959, Guo Shuzhen became an actor of the Central Opera and dance theater and a teacher of the Vocal Music Department of the Central Conservatory of music. Over the years, Guo Shuzhen has been active in the music stage, holding a series of solo concerts in Tianjin, Beijing, Wuhan, Hong Kong, Qianlie ningler and rivolf. The repertoire of Guo Shuzhen's concerts includes ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, and is extremely extensive. In Beijing Sijiqing people's commune held a solo concert of individual Chinese works, song Zhenting wrote: "Guo Shuzhen's solo is full of sound and emotion, and has a high artistic quality, perfection and appeal. It can be seen that her skill and education are deep.... "

In 1963, the Central Opera and dance theater premiered the opera "Eugene Onegin" in China. Guo Shuzhen once again played the role of tachiyana, which attracted attention from all walks of life and was well received. The number of records recorded and released by China's record companies is the largest among bel canto singers, and has been unanimously praised by the audience and experts. In 1989, he won the first "Gold Record Award" of China record company. In 1997, China National Records Corporation released the personal album (CD) of the collection of famous Chinese singers in the 20th century. Moscow record company has collected a lot of Guo Shuzhen's classical songs, opera selections, Chinese and Russian folk songs, and published records.

In 1947, he entered the Music Department of Beiping art college. He graduated from the Vocal Music Department of the Central Conservatory of music in 1952. He joined the Communist Party of China in the same year. He graduated from the Department of vocal music of Tchaikovsky Conservatory of music in Moscow in 1958. In 1959, he returned to China and taught in the Central Conservatory of music. In 1985, he was elected as the fourth executive director of the Chinese Musicians Association. He has been a lecturer of the Central Conservatory of music, deputy director, associate professor and professor of the vocal music department, and the third and fourth executive directors of the China Music Association. In 1955, he won the bronze medal for classical song singing in the fifth World Youth Festival. In 1957, he won the gold medal for classical song singing in the sixth World Youth Festival.

He won the third prize and the first prize in the classical song competition of the fifth and the sixth World Youth and Student Festival respectively; he won the first national "gold record" award, the instructor award of the national art college art song singing competition, and the advanced worker of the national cultural system of the Ministry of culture. Solo concerts were held in the Soviet Union and Hong Kong. He has starred in opera Eugene Onegin, artist's career and sang songs such as Yellow River resentment. In 1958, Moscow Stanislavsky, Danchenko model music theater and Ukraine's rivov Grand Theater successively invited Guo Shuzhen to play Mimi in Puccini's opera "artist's life" and tajiyana in Tchaikovsky's opera "Eugene Onegin". The performance won high praise and was praised as the heroine of Pushkin and Tchaikovsky style by the famous music critic ye glosheva.

Artistic experience

Guo Shuzhen, who was taught by Mrs. hanky, an American soprano in Peking National Academy of Arts before the founding of the people's Republic of China, studied vocal music under Shen Xiang in the Central Conservatory of music after the founding of new China, and then went to Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory to study abroad. She successfully played the roles of tajiana and artist's career in the opera Eugene Onegin in the famous theatre in Moscow Mimi in the novel was named "the heroine of Pushkin and Tchaikovsky". In 1957, he won the first prize and gold medal in the World Youth Festival classical song singing competition held in Moscow. Later, he worked as a professor of vocal music in the Central Conservatory of music, trained many excellent vocal talents, and visited and performed in more than ten countries, including Europe, Asia, North America and South America. She has a wide range of voice, beautiful and clear timbre, and has originality in the control and application of voice, as well as the poetic and picturesque lyric soprano, the picturesque dramatic soprano and the crystal dexterity of coloratura soprano; she is good at deeply understanding the connotation of the work, properly explaining and entering the role.

On February 4, 2019, at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Guo Shuzhen and Li Guangxi, Hu Songhua, Liu Bingyi, Yu Shuzhen, Yang Hongji, Dedema, guanmucun, Zhang Yingxi, Jin Tingting, Huo Yong, Zhou Xiaolin, Zhong Liyan, and Xia Lio sang the song "me and my motherland".

Teaching experience

Guo Shuzhen has made remarkable achievements in vocal music teaching. Over the past few decades, she has trained hundreds of Chinese and foreign students, She is the author of the book Sun Shi, Wang Jin, Guan Yueying, Tao Ying, sun Dongfang, Deng Yurong, Fang Xin, Fu Huiqin, Fu Hong, Huang Nan, Jin ShuNai, Liu Xiaoli, Li Zhiqiong, Lu Wei, Qi Weigeng, Su Hui, Zheng Li, Bi Baoyi, Zhang Zhang, pan Lingyun, Li Yuan, Wang Chen, Wu Shuang, Tan Meilan, Guo Yanyi, Guo Xiaoxian, Ping Huiling, Xu Jing, Huang Jing, Wang Xianghong, Li Guangxian, Yu Min, Zhao Jinsong Xue Hongping, ye Quling, Zhang Lihong, cangchuande, Liu Wuhong, Zhang BoMo, Yu Qinghai, Zhang Xiaoming, Shi Lei, Liu Songhu, Liu Xiaofei, Wu Lin, pan Xiaofen, Wu Jie and many others have won awards in international and domestic vocal music competitions and become outstanding singers and vocal music professors,

Some of them have been on the world-class music stage and won honor for the country

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Main works

He has been active on the music stage in the 1960s. A series of meetings were held in Beijing, Tianjin, Wuhan, Hong Kong, Qianlie, ningrad and rivoff

He has also performed solo concerts in Germany, the United States, Canada, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela and Vienna. In 1963, Eugene Onegin, premiered in Beijing with the Central Opera House, received wide attention and high praise from all walks of life. A number of albums have been recorded and released by China record service, including works by Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Dvorak, Grieg, de Faya and other composers, as well as works by Huang Zi, Xian Xinghai, Nie Er, Jiang Wenye, Qu Xixian and other Chinese composers. The singing was praised by experts and the audience. He won the first National Gold Record Award in 1989. In 1997, China National Records Corporation published and released the personal album (CD) of the 20th century Chinese famous singers, including orchestras.

Many outstanding young singers have been trained in vocal music teaching. They have made outstanding achievements in their respective posts, and some of them have been on the world-class vocal music stage. In 1988, Guo Shuzhen won the excellent instructor award of the national art college art song singing competition. In 1997, he won the first prize of national higher education teaching achievement.

Since 2000, as

Chairman of China International Vocal Music Competition

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A series of concerts to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Professor Guo Shuzhen's teaching as a musician and a series of concerts to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the famous soprano and vocal music educator Guo Shuzhen's teaching as a musician will be held at the Beijing Concert Hall and the concert hall of the Central Conservatory of music on the evening of December 18-20 and December 21, respectively. The concert on the 18th will also open the curtain of the 7th Music Festival of the Central Conservatory of music in 2007. At that time, Professor Guo Shuzhen, who has educated and trained a large number of outstanding vocal music students in the past decades, will bring her friends who have been with her for decades and a group of well-known high performers to meet the audience in Beijing Concert Hall, and offer a high-level and unique concert.

Award winning record

Guo Shuzhen has twice served as a coach and led young singers to participate in international vocal music competitions. She has been the judge of major domestic and international vocal music competitions for many times. She has been the chairman of the jury of China International Vocal Music Competition for three consecutive times, the judge of the fourth marnushko International Vocal music competition in Poland, the judge of the third Taipei World Chinese singing competition, the 12th Tchaikovsky international vocal music competition, and Mrs. butterfly Nagasaki in Japan

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