Liu Songhu

Liu Songhu

Liu Songhu, baritone singer, doctor, resident soloist of Nuremberg National Opera House and guest lecturer of Nuremberg National Conservatory of music, was born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. In his childhood, he was well educated and cultivated by art families. In his middle school, he studied in the middle school attached to Shenyang Conservatory of music and studied under Mr. Feng Yuzong. In 1992, he was admitted to the "nirdanova" National Conservatory of music in Odessa, Ukraine, and studied under Professor oglenich, the former Soviet people's actor and President of the conservatory. At the age of 20, he won the third prize of the Czech "Dvorak" International Vocal Competition and the best singing award of "Dvorak" works when he was a junior in University. At the same time, he was invited to participate in the solo concert of "Dvorak" works held in Prague. The next year, he won the third prize of "padorensky" in Ukraine international vocal music competition. He was employed as an opera soloist by Odessa National Opera House before graduation. As a result of personal efforts, the six-year course only took four and a half years to complete, and with excellent results obtained a master's degree, opera singing degree, art song singing degree, educator's degree.

Main achievements

In 1997, he was admitted by the famous "osimo Opera Research Institute" in Italy and won a full scholarship. He was invited to play the roles in Verdi's Simon Bocanegra, masnai's Rome and Giordano's the king for two consecutive times by the Italian "federal delled'itria" International Music Festival. These three operas have been recorded and published on CD. In 1998, he was invited to sing the role of Earl in Mozart's Figaro wedding by the eighth "osimo International Opera Music Festival". In 1999, he participated in the International Vocal Competition "giandonai" in Italy, and won the "most promising singer award" and was employed as the resident soloist of klagenford national opera house from 2000 to 2001. In 2000, he successfully completed his master's degree in vocal music at the "osimo Opera Institute" in Italy.

In the same year, he was hired as an opera soloist by the youth group of Munich National Opera House and Nuremberg National Opera House, and finally chose Nuremberg national opera house. Since 2000, he has played the main roles in the following operas: artist's career, Carmen, Magic Flute, jester, love elixir, Figaro's wedding, Hoffman's story, heart of a woman, don Juan, famous singer of Nuremberg, night of Venice, Young Werther's troubles, the all of the house of her, Pelias and melisandre 》"Hairdresser of Serbia", "Faust", "Eugene Onegin", "clown", "Lucia of Latin American more", "false gardener", "Camellia", "Queen of spades" and so on. So far, he has played more than 500 performances. Among them, the British opera "the all of the four of her", which starred in 2000-2001, was awarded the "best opera Award" by the German Ministry of culture. At the same time, it was specially invited by the "Singapore International Music Festival" to sing the opera in 2003. In early 2002, at the invitation of Ye Xiaogang, a famous Chinese composer, Zhang Yi, a famous Chinese conductor, recorded horizon CD in Germany in cooperation with Ms. Wang Yanyan, which has been published in Europe. In 2003, he took part in the well-known "new voice" international vocal music competition at home and abroad in Germany and won the third prize among 1200 contestants, which is also the best result of Chinese people in the "new voice" international vocal music competition so far. In 2005, he won the annual opera award of "Barber of Serbia - Figaro role award" in the Italian "giandonai" International Vocal Competition. In September 2006, he won the first prize in the 46th Toulouse International Vocal Competition. In 2007, he won the first prize again in the German "vocal lavoce" international art song competition, filling the gap of zero Award for Chinese in the international art song competition. In September of the same year, it was awarded the 2007 opera star award by the most authoritative German opera magazine (opernwelt jahrbuch 2007).

Learning and performance

After working in the National Opera House of Nuremberg, Germany, he continued to study for a master's degree. He studied under the world famous singer, German meritorious actor and Professor Jerusalem, President of the National Conservatory of music of Nuremberg, Germany. In 2005, he got a master's degree with full marks. In 2005, he was officially employed as a guest lecturer by the National Conservatory of music of Nuremberg, Germany, and engaged in vocal music education. After years of experience abroad, he has mastered German, Italian, Russian, French and other languages, and can use these languages to sing opera and art songs.

Liu Songhu is not only frequently active on various European stages, but also frequently appears on the Asian stage, such as the 2003 Singapore International Music Festival, the 2003 Shenyang Spring Festival Gala, the 2006 Hong Kong International Music Festival opera Don Juan, the 2006 "Requiem" by Frey at the Beijing Concert Hall, and the 2008 Macao International Music Festival.

Chinese PinYin : Liu Song Hu