Chen, Hongyu

Voice type: Baritone

Country: China

Date of birth: 3 December, 1985

The baritone started his non-degree studies at the Liszt Academy, Budapest with Éva Marton in 2020. He finished his master studies in 2015 at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts with Rudolf Piernay. He performed at the Theaterakademie Hamburg, the Haus für Musik und Theater Graz, the Frankfurt Opera House, the Hamburger Kammeroper and the Deutsche Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar, among others. In concerts, he appeared on stage at the Bayreuther Festspiele in Wahnfried Haus with Elena Pankratova, as well as under Alois Seidlmeier with Leipziger Symphonie Orchestera in Alte Oper Frankfurt, under Philippe Forget with the l’Orchestre national de Lorraine at l’Opéra-Théâtre de Metz Métropole, and at the Stuttgart Music Festival under Helmuth Rilling. In 2018, he won 2^nd prize and Jury Prize at the 53. International Antonín Dvořák Singing Competition and 1^st prize at the 2. International Singing Competition IMMCC Maribor. He has been a junior professor since 2018 at the Inner Mongolia Arts University In China, and since 2019 voice lecturer at the University of Szeged in Hungary.

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